once gave this task to student teachers in connection with the didactics of
mathematics in primary school: Pick out two mathematical concepts and describe
how you would proceed to make your learners grasp the concept. The answers varied
of course much in quality, but what is most interesting in connection with my project
is the various choices of concepts to work on, and what this tells about how the word
concept is commonly used
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A concept, in mathematics, is a general idea - the same as it is elsewhere.A concept, in mathematics, is a general idea - the same as it is elsewhere.A concept, in mathematics, is a general idea - the same as it is elsewhere.A concept, in mathematics, is a general idea - the same as it is elsewhere.
Yes, the word 'mathematics' is a noun, a common, uncountable, abstract noun; a word for a concept, a word for a thing.
Because it has only conceptual existence - - - it's a concept, not a thing.
Roman numerals are very difficult to do mathematics with, and do not work at all in advanced mathematics as the roman numeral system has no concept of zero, negative numbers, fractions, powers, or decimals.
THE SUBJECT OF VARIATION is more properly the subject of arithmetic, because it rests squarely on the concept of ratio.