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  2. Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    There is no general consensus about the definition of mathematics or its epistemological status—that is, its place inside knowledge. A great many professional mathematicians take no interest in a definition of mathematics, or consider it undefinable. There is not even consensus on whether mathematics is an art or a science.

  3. Mathematics education - Wikipedia

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    Rote learning: the teaching of mathematical results, definitions and concepts by repetition and memorisation typically without meaning or supported by mathematical reasoning. A derisory term is drill and kill. In traditional education, rote learning is used to teach multiplication tables, definitions, formulas, and other aspects of mathematics.

  4. Common Core - Wikipedia

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    The Common Core State Standards Initiative, also known as simply Common Core, was an American, multi-state educational initiative begun in 2010 with the goal of increasing consistency across state standards, or what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade.

  5. Elementary mathematics - Wikipedia

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    As taught in school books, analytic geometry can be explained more simply: it is concerned with defining and representing geometrical shapes in a numerical way and extracting numerical information from shapes' numerical definitions and representations. Transformations are ways of shifting and scaling functions using different algebraic formulas.

  6. Definitions of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The preceding kinds of definitions, which had prevailed since Aristotle's time, [4] were abandoned in the 19th century as new branches of mathematics were developed, which bore no obvious relation to measurement or the physical world, such as group theory, projective geometry, [3] and non-Euclidean geometry.

  7. Mathematics education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A math club at a preparatory school in Texas (2018) Growing numbers of parents have opted to send their children to enrichment and accelerated learning after-school or summer programs in mathematics, leading to friction with school officials who are concerned that their primary beneficiaries are affluent white and Asian families, prompting ...

  8. Manipulative (mathematics education) - Wikipedia

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    Cuisenaire rods in a staircase arrangement Interlocking "multilink" linking cubes A Polydron icosahedron. In mathematics education, a manipulative is an object which is designed so that a learner can perceive some mathematical concept by manipulating it, hence its name.

  9. Believe - Wikipedia

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    Believe may refer to: Belief , a psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true, with or without proof for such proposition Faith , a belief in something which has not been proven