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Prečo matematika?
Why Mathematics?

Author(s): Ján Kuruc
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Scientific Life
Published by: VERBUM - vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku
Keywords: Ancient Greece; Causal Reasoning; Mathematics Teaching; Education; Transmisive; Constructivism;

Summary/Abstract: Mathematics as a tool of human thinking. A look at the era of the start of mathematics as a science. Causal reasoning and it’s evolution. Ancient Greece and it’s contribution to causal reasoning. The parallel between phylogeny and ontogeny. Problems with the present state of bringing up and education of young people and the need to improve it. The need to change the transmisive way of teaching science as a subject to a constructivist approach.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 137-143
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Slovak
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