Experts and Novices: Maths on the Street

Synopsis: Examines the ways young street traders, or ‘street kids’, in Recife, north-east Brazil, do their sums. Often these children have had very little schooling and art not proficient in traditional mathematics, yet they can add up and do other sums in their heads, having learned the basic attributes of number and logic from their street experience. Admirers of their achievement point out how street maths makes sense and ask whether all the routine procedures of schools maths are really necessary.
Series: Cognitive Development: Language & Thinking from Birth to Adolescence, Course E362
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1991
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Subjects: Education
Keywords: arithmetic; Brazil; street children

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