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, MTE1501 ASSIGNMENT 04 DUE 20AUGUST1. Read paragraph 1.4 of your Tutorial Letter 501 and answer the following
question:
Amongst the ideas of the early mathematics philosophers, which statement
is NOT true?
1) Aristotle uses empirical study emanating from experiments and
observations.
2) Plato reasoned that mathematics is based on experimentation and
abstraction.
3) Hilbert believed that mathematics can exist in the formal having concrete
representations in the mind.
4) Aristotle said that we can understand mathematics through
experimentation, abstraction, and observation
2. Aristotle's beliefs on the nature of mathematics are based on the
following:
1) the objects of mathematics had an existence on their own
2) the physical, the mathematical, and the theological into which knowledge
could be divided.
3) ideas of mathematics could be viewed as a subset of the ideas
4) logicism, intuitionism, and experimentation.
3. In the “modern” view of mathematics, the following is true…
1) Mathematics exists in human creativity only.
2) Mathematical objects are not invented or created by humans.
3) A mathematics activity is not strictly governed by any one school of thought
4) Learning mathematics is restricted to real-life connections, signs, symbols,
definitions,and rules
4. People have different views about Mathematics and that it is important to
be learned at school. Which of the following is not how people view
mathematics.
1) Without special brains you cannot do Mathematics
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