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Terms and Conditions. Privacy Statement. Browse Our Titles. Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account. Volume Editors: Lieven Verschaffel. Brian Greer. Wim Van Dooren. Swapna Mukhopadhyay. In this book, the reader is invited to enter a strange world in which you can tell the age of the captain by counting the animals on his ship, where runners do not get tired, and where water gets hotter when you add it to other water.
It is the world of a curious genre, known as "word problems" or "story problems". It originated in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, and India, and is the subject of daily rituals among students and teachers in mathematics classrooms all around the world. An international group of scholars with a shared interest in this phenomenon explore multiple aspects of this world from multiple perspectives.
These discussions take us deep into philosophical issues of the relationships between words, mathematical systems, and the physical and social worlds we all inhabit. Copyright Year: E-Book PDF. Login via Institution.
Prices from excl. View PDF Flyer. Contents About. Pages: i—xxviii. By: Torulf Palm. By: Susan Gerofsky. Pages: 21— By: Uwe Gellert and Eva Jablonka. Pages: 39— Discussion of Part I: Theoretical Perspectives. By: Wolff-Michael Roth. Pages: 55— By: Frank J. Pages: 71— By: Barry Cooper and Tony Harries. Pages: 93— By: Marilyn Frankenstein. Pages: — By: Jo Boaler. By: Ziqiang Xin. By: Noriyuki Inoue. By: Shuk-Kwan S. By: Olive Chapman.
