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Direct linkDebnath, Lokenath – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2011
This article deals with a brief history of Fibonacci's life and career. It includes Fibonacci's major mathematical discoveries to establish that he was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the Medieval Period. Special attention is given to the Fibonacci numbers, the golden number and the Lucas numbers and their fundamental…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Numbers, Science Education History, Career Development
Trudgian, Timothy – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2009
One of the difficulties in any teaching of mathematics is to bridge the divide between the abstract and the intuitive. Throughout school one encounters increasingly abstract notions, which are more and more difficult to relate to everyday experiences. This article examines a familiar approach to thinking about negative numbers, that is an…
Descriptors: Numbers, Number Concepts, Number Systems, Mathematical Applications
Swain, Jon – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2005
This article reports research findings from a 21-month empirical project called "Making Numeracy Teaching Meaningful to Adult Learners," which was funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). It looks at motivations behind adult learners returning to study numeracy in three FE colleges, and finds…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
