References

Bruner, J. (1986) Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bruno, A. and Martinon, A. (1999) ‘The teaching of numerical extensions: the case of negative numbers’, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 789–809.

Byers, V. and Herscovics, N. (1977) ‘Understanding school mathematics’, Mathematics Teaching, vol. 81, pp. 24–7.

Egan, K. (1986) Teaching as Story Telling: An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Fishbein, E. (1987) Intuition in Science and Mathematics: An Educational Approach. Dordrecht: Reidel.

Linchevski, L. and Williams, J. (1999) ‘Using intuition from everyday life in “filling” the gap in children’s extension of their number concept to include the negative numbers’, Educational Studies in Mathematics, vol. 39, nos 1–3, pp. 131–47.

National Council for Teacher Education (2009) National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (online). New Delhi: NCTE. Available from: http://www.ncte-india.org/ publicnotice/ NCFTE_2010.pdf (accessed 5 February 2014).

National Council of Educational Research and Training (2005) National Curriculum Framework (NCF). New Delhi: NCERT.

NRICH (undated) ‘Making sense of positives and negatives: stage 3’ (online). Available from: http://nrich.maths.org/ 9958 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] (accessed 6 February 2014).

Watson, A., Jones, K. and Pratt, D. (2013) Key Ideas in Teaching Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.