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This programme looks at how street traders, or 'street kids', as they are known, do their sums. Often these children have had only a partial experience of schooling, and are not proficient at schoo...l maths. Yet they can add up and do other sums in their heads, having learnt the basic attributes of number and logic from their street experiences. Admirers of their achievement point out how street mats makes sense, and ask whether all the routine procedures of school maths are really necessary.
This programme looks at how street traders, or 'street kids', as they are known, do their sums. Often these children have had only a partial experience of schooling, and are not proficient at schoo...l maths. Yet they can add up and do other sums in their heads, having learnt the basic attributes of number and logic from their street experiences. Admirers of their achievement point out how street mats makes sense, and ask whether all the routine procedures of school maths are really necessary.
| Module code and title: | E362, Cognitive development: language and thinking - birth to adolescence |
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| Item code: | E362; 14 |
| First transmission date: | 1989 |
| Published: | 1989 |
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| Restrictions on use: | |
| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Meg Sheffield |
| Contributor: | Lesley Judd |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Analucia Schliemann; Brazil; Children; Psychologists; Recife; Street traders |
| Subject terms: | Mathematical ability; Mathematics--Study and teaching; Peddlers and peddling; Street children--Mathematics--Brazil |
| Master spool number: | HOU6466 |
| Production number: | FOUE251D |
| Videofinder number: | 3135 |
| Available to public: | no |
