Modern Mathematics and the Teacher
Description:... "This is a translation and abridgement of Lucienne Felix's Mathematiques modernes enseignement elementarire. Mademoiselle Felix is a close associate of Bourbaki group of French mathematicians and her approach to the teaching of mathematics is less empirical than is usual in Great Britain, though American readers may well find her treatment more familiar. Her main purpose is to take the reader behind the superficial aspects of elementary mathematics and put the subject in a wider context. The book is not a potted guide to modern mathematics for the lazy reader- it is a stimulating study in the teaching of mathematics in a form that some teachers will find unusual. It is not a textbook and does not prescribe a detailed syllabus. The author introduces the basic ideas of a set, relation, operation, mapping, cardinal number of a set, neighbourhoods, topology, number, space and relates them to the mathematics syllabus in primary and secondary schools."- Publisher
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