Reasoning by Mathematical Induction in Children's Arithmetic

by Leslie Smith

How do children understand reasoning by mathematical induction? Mathematical induction - Poincare's reasoning by recurrence - is a standard form of inference with two distinctive properties. One is its necessity. The other is its universality or inference from particular to general. This means that mathematical induction is similar to both logical deduction and empirical induction, and yet is different from both. In a major study 40 years ago, Inhelder...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080441289
• ISBN13: 9780080441283
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Pergamon
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"