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Science and Mathematics Education

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Mathematics

2010

Institute for Educational Development, East Africa

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Mathematical Notation: Help Or Hindrance?, Geoff D. Tennant Dr Jan 2010

Mathematical Notation: Help Or Hindrance?, Geoff D. Tennant Dr

Institute for Educational Development, East Africa

This article puts forward a range of reasons for using mathematical notation, emphasizing the need to allow children learning it time and space to come to terms with it. Examples are given in furthering the argument that the time to introduce notation is after the concept is already fully understood.