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Understanding Mathematics Some Ways of Knowing

Monograph No. 11 (Mislabeled)

Making Math Make Sense in the Primary Classroom

February 2000

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

Editor A. Craig Loewen

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Understanding Mathematics Some Ways of Knowing

Learning without understanding is a frustrating experience. But, what do we mean when we say we do not understand a mathematical idea? Or, more to the point, what does it mean that we know or are able to do when we say that we do understand mathematics? Can you actually learn something and not understand it?