"Not only is it important to consider the content of the mathematics curriculum, it's important to know about how people learn mathematics. Students need to learn mathematical concepts and to see relationships among these concepts. Because concepts and relationships are constructed by people and exist only in their minds, to learn mathematics, children must construct these concepts and relationships in their own minds" (Burns 1992, p. 24).
John Van De Walle, in his book Elementary School Mathematics:
Teaching Developmentally (1995), describes two important
components of learning and teaching mathematics: helping students
to develop
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