Didactical Phenomenology of Mathematical Structures

• Main Author: Freudenthal, Hans. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 1
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Education, general.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

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Table of Contents:

• As an Example: Length
• The Method
• Sets
• Natural Numbers
• Fractions
• Ratio and Proportionality
• Structures: In Particular, Geometrical Structures
• Putting into Geometrical Contexts
• Topology as a Geometrical Context
• The Topographical Context
• Figures and Configurations
• Geometrical Mappings
• Measuring by means of Geometry
• Topography with Geometry
• Negative Numbers and Directed Magnitudes
• The Algebraic Language
• Functions.