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THE SITUATION PROCESS IN PROBLEM-SOLVING: HELP OR HINDRANCE?

Annual – 1966 – NCTM Calgary Summer Meeting

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

37 – 41

THE SITUATION PROCESS IN PROBLEM-SOLVING: HELP OR HINDRANCE?

T. P. Atkinson

Among the objectives of teaching mathematics, we find two which are given considerable attention. With the risk of over-simplification, may I refer to them as

1. the content of mathematics,
2. its application to our environment.