Texts on the History of Mathematics as an Instrument for Mental Education of Basic School Pupils

Smolyakova D. V.

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The paper regards school texts on the history of mathematics as an instrument for mental education of basic school pupils. There was worked out a system of the texts directed at the development of some components of cognitive experience: texts, favoring verbal-symbolic, visual, sensual-emotional ways of information coding; texts, directed at enriching pupils’ emotional-evaluative experience and so on. The importance of each type of the text on the history of mathematics is shown.

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Issue: 3, 2006

Series of issue: Pedagogy (Theory and Teaching Methods)

Rubric: Ways of School Education Content Change

Pages: 36 — 39

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