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Plenary 3: Thursday 9th July 2009

Informal mathematical understandings: implications for further education

Terezinha Nunes

Department of Education, University of Oxford

terezinha.nunes@education.ox.ac.uk

There are many opportunities for people to develop mathematical understandings

outside school. We develop our thinking about quantities and relations between

them even when we might not be able to use numbers to represent the quantities or

the relations between them. This presentation will focus on research suggests that

informal knowledge of functional relations is often implicit and thus may be

incomplete. This presentation will highlight the basis and strengths of informal

knowledge about functions and suggest ways of capitalizing on this knowledge in

school.

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