Nature of Mathematics
What is mathematics?
Manipulating
Numbers to solve
problems
Other subjects need math
Language, tool for a set of standards
More then a subject, prerequisite
for everything
What’s the point in teaching it?
To gives students problem solving tools
Continue advancement of technology
So people can understand it
To communicate
To function in society, applicable to real
life
Learning to think in a different way
What’s the point learning it?
Important
life skills you need to
know
Continue learning
Leopold
Kronecker once said: "The
natural numbers come from God,
everything else is man's work." Do
you agree with this statement? Why or
why not?
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