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Pedagogy of Mathematics

Why the aim of primary mathematics is the mathematisation of a child's thinking rather than fast calculation — with the concrete-to-abstract sequence, what a child's wrong answer is actually telling you, and how diagnosis turns into remedial teaching.

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