How Children Learn Mathematics and the Implications for ...

Skemp (1971) described two ways of understanding mathematical ideas that he called ‘instrumental’ and ‘relational understanding’. Instrumental understanding is a shallower form of understanding. For example, we might develop an instrumental understanding of how to add, subtract, multiply and divide using a set procedure or

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