Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
Jul 29, 1988
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521357349
ISBN-13
9780521357340
Description
In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world", such as that entailed in grocery shopping or dieting, is, like all thinking, shaped by the dynamic encounter between the culturally-endowed mind and its total context, a subtle interaction that shapes both the human subject and the world within which it acts.