Examples from the in-service classroom (age group 7-12)

The paper shows that it is not enough for teachers to have in their education or in-service training a purely mathematical view of numbers and shapes. They need themselves to work with numbers in real life situations in order to obtain the proper perspective so as to cope with the demanding task of guiding their pupils towards an understanding of numbers. They need to match the abstract mathematical concept of number with the practical application in such a way that each aspect helps develop to other.