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Getting the ‘rect’-angle on mathematical activity

July 1, 1973

MONOGRAPH No. l

Manipulative materials for teaching and learning mathematics

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

71 – 84

Getting the ‘rect’-angle on mathematical activity

THOMAS E. KIEREN

There has been a large amount of literature and perhaps an even larger amount of activity packages developed for and by teachers and students of mathematics over the last 5 years. The basis for much of this development came from the assumption of the value of individualized instruction and of such adages as “doing produces understanding”, “go from concrete to abstract”, and “discovery”.