Simulation Games for the Learning and Teaching of Mathematics
"When I used to attend lower secondary school I was very good at doing expressions, a task which I greatly enjoyed. I carefully carried out the calculations in the right order and helped my classmates by inventing ways for them to solve problems. The question I always asked myself was: What use are these expressions? What advantage can be gained from them? The textbook we used at school claimed that an expression achieves. and/or but it provided no information at all regarding my query. Nor did my teacher who, being a graduate in biology, had no great love of mathematics and made no secret of the fact. I had no alternative but to search for an answer on my own and I'm still searching! However, I will tell you how I went about the task: I tried to think of situations or contexts in which that expression ABStrAct