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Assignment 4
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MTE1501 Assignment 4 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2024
(602580) - DUE 20 September 2024
Course
Mathematics 1 for Teachers (MTE1501)
Institution
University Of South Africa (Unisa)
Book
Principles of Mathematics Book 1 Teacher Guide
MTE1501 Assignment 4 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2024 - DUE 20 September
2024 ; 100% TRUSTED Complete, trusted solutions and explanations.
1. Amongst the ideas of the early mathematics philosophers, which
statement is NOT true? Options: 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: Options: 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
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Plato’s View on Mathematics
Plato was a philosopher who believed in an ideal world beyond our physical reality. This is
known as the Theory of Forms. Here’s a clearer breakdown:
1. The World of Forms:
Plato argued that everything we see in the physical world is an imperfect version of a
perfect idea, or "Form," that exists in a separate, non-physical realm.