Monograph No. 6: Reading In Mathematics
December 1980
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
22 – 33
V. Froese
ARITHMETIC is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
ARITHMETIC is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. (from 11 Arithmetic 11 by Carl Sandburg)
READING is externally guided thinking. (from Cognitive Psychology by Ulric Neisser, 1967)
READING is reasoning. (reprinted in Reading Research Quarterly by E.L. Thorndike, 1917)
READING is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.