According to NCF 2005 Why mathematics in school Curriculam..? Developing childrens abilities for mathematisation is the main goal of mathematics education. The narrow aim of school mathematics is to develop useful capabilities, particularly those relating to numeracy–numbers, number operations, measurements, decimals and percentages. The higher aim is to develop the childs resources to think and reason mathematically, to pursue assumptions to their logical conclusion and to handle abstraction. It includes a way of doing things, and the ability and the attitude to formulate and solve problems. Vision for school mathematics • Children learn to enjoy mathematics rather than fear it. • Children learn important mathematics: Mathematics is more than for mulas and mechanical procedures. • Children see mathematics as something to talk about, to communicate through, to discuss among themselves, to work together on. • Children pose and solve meaningful problems. • Children use abstractions to perceive relation-ships, to see structures, to reason out things, to argue the truth or falsity of statements. • Children understand the basic structure of Mathematics: Arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, the basic content areas of school Mathematics, all offer a methodology for abstraction, structuration and generalisation. • Teachers engage every child in class with the conviction that everyone can learn mathematics.
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