Discussion
Classroom researches have shown that most of the students find mathematics more difficult than the other subjects they study in the same class. Which of the following aspects of the nature of mathematics adds to this fear ?
Answer: D
The aspect is the abstract nature of primary concepts in mathematics.
Even the basic ideas of mathematics, such as number, place value, zero and fraction, are abstractions: a child cannot see or touch 'three' itself, only three objects. When abstract ideas are presented without grounding in concrete experience, children find them hard and come to fear the subject. The NCF 2005 position paper on mathematics names this abstraction as a source of difficulty.
Multiple answers and multiple methods are strengths of mathematics that make it more open, not sources of fear, and the size of its knowledge base is not specific to mathematics.
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