A TWIN CURRICULUM SINCE CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS MAY BLOCK THE ROAD TO ITS EDUCATIONAL GOAL, MASTERY OF MANY
Count & ReCount & DoubleCount before Adding NextTo & OnTop
Mathematics education research still leaves many issues unsolved after half a century. Since it refers primarily to local theory, we may ask if grand theory may be helpful. Here philosophy suggests respecting and developing the epistemological mastery of Many children bring to school instead of forcing ontological university mathematics upon them. And sociology warns against the goal displacement created by seeing contemporary institutionalized mathematics as the goal needing eight competences to be learned, instead of aiming at its outside root, mastery of Many, needing only two competences, to count and to unite, described and implemented through a guiding twin curriculum.
A Twin Curriculum in Counting & Adding PPP
A Twin Curriculum in Counting & Adding Paper