• NAAJIA ZAINAB

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• DR. ROOHI FATIMA

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Mathematics is an integral part of the universe. It plays a vital role about thinking. There are many ways of thinking and the kind of thinking one learns in mathematics is an ability to handle abstractions. Mathematics helps in the development of scientific and constructive thinking, logic and creativity in all walks of life. The core of mathematics lies in its beauty and its intellectual challenge. The use of mathematics is felt at each and every step, every  International Journal of English and Education                                                                                                                                                             minute and every moment of man‟s life. The importance of mathematics is how it applies the problem situations to their day-to-day work. Students need to understand mathematics as part of the systematic/well organized endeavor, understand the nature of mathematical thinking, and become familiar with key mathematical ideas and skills.  In the words of David Wheeler, “it is more useful to know how to mathematize than to know a lot of mathematics.”  Mathematics is also called the “science of reasoning”. As Locke (1960) defined, “Mathematics is a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning.” Here the results are developed through the process of reasoning. Reasoning in Mathematics is a peculiar kind and processes a number of characteristics such as simplicity, accuracy, certainty of results and originality to the reasoning in life.   Therefore, mathematics is to be visualized as the vehicle to train each child to think, to reason, analyze and to articulate logically and to function effectively as citizens.

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