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On the Teaching of Mathematics
The Psychopathology of Arithmetic by JOHN BIGGS of the National Foundation for Educational Research
The learning of mathematics is notoriously prone to ' emotional blockage.' Why should this be? The answer discloses our fundamental uncertainty about the goal of mathematical teaching.
' We are in danger of an unhealthy maladjustment of aim, method, logic, and psychology.'
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Abstract and Concrete, by W. W. Sawyer : October 20

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