Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 52 Issue 1, December 2014
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Seven Pointers for Teaching Mathematics
Marlow Ediger
Mathematics has its roots deep in the soil of everyday life, and it is basic to our highest technological achievements. Even though almost everything of a concrete character is mathematics, it is the most abstract and the most hypothetical of the sciences. In fact. mathematics is a human science. ft is the numerical and calculation part of a person’s life and knowledge. It helps provide exact interpretation of ideas and conclusions. It deals with quantitative facts and relationships. as well as with problems involving space and form. It also deals with relationships between magnitudes. Mathematics has always held a key position in the school curriculum, because it has been held to be indispensable to the educated (Savithiri 2006).
