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Transformations and School Mathematics

Monograph No. 2: September 1974

MATHEMATICS TEACHING – The State of the Art

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

69 – 90

Transformations and School Mathematics

JOHN DEL GRANDE

Transformations have played a very important part in our thinking over the past five years. Thinking about transformations has opened to us some of the true fascinations of mathematics and has showed us new directions for the development of student materials starting with five-year-old children. I am not alone in my enthusiasm for this approach.