Maths failure

20th September 2002, 1:00am

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Maths failure

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PUPILS in England are in danger of being left with a “fragmented” knowledge of maths because textbooks fail to connect individual examples with mathematical concepts, warn Dr Birgit Pepin and Linda Haggarty. “Making connections and seeing links: Directed numbers in English, French and German textbooks” is available from bpepin@brookes.ac.uk

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