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MTE1501ASSIGNMENT 4
DUE: 20 SEPT 2024
, Assessment Criteria
This assignment covers units 1-4 of MTE 1501, containing the following contents:
• The history, views, and uses of mathematics in various civilizations across the world;
• Approaches to teaching mathematics; levels of learner engagement in the instruction;
• Conceptual and procedural knowledge, mathematical proficiency, and construction of
mathematics ideas;
• Number concepts and representations, place value, number operations, real numbers;
• 2-Dimensional shapes and 3-Dimensional objects
Instructions
This assignment consists of 50 multiple-choice questions. Select the correct
answer/statement from the four options for each question and write down the number (1, 2,
3, or 4) of the correct answer. Few has been selected where you will have to show your
workings.
Assignment 4 questions
1. 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.
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