Tytuł:

Number three as a law of science. In praise of number three

Tytuł publikacji grupowej:

Didactics of Mathematics

Autor:

Maciuk, Arkadiusz ; Smoluk, Antoni

Temat i słowa kluczowe:

perception of natural numbers ; three-valued logic ; test exams

Opis:

Didactics of Mathematics, 2016, No. 13(17), s. 25-35

Abstrakt:

Comprehension of nature, in the simplest and quickest fashion, boils down to the differentiation of three states. This is probably related to the psychological fact that the human mind grasps only natural numbers from zero to three and the other numbers it calculates. We live in a divalent world created by Aristotle. However not everything can be reduced to two categories: “yes” and “no”, because Nature is abundant. The principle of continuity which facilitates understanding is in natural conflict with the binary description of the world. Ever since the times of Aristotle it has been normal to use in science a description of the world that is reduced to two states: “true” and “false”. In nature it is more obvious to distinguish three states: low-medium-high or negative-neutral-positive, etc. Man embraces at a single glance sets of three elements at most, and more numerous sets are divided into parts. Binary logic may have a negative impact on the process of teaching and examinations, especially if the tests are used.

Wydawca:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu

Miejsce wydania:

Wrocław

Data wydania:

2016

Typ zasobu:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Identyfikator zasobu:

doi:10.15611/dm.2016.13.04

Język:

eng

Powiązania:

Didactics of Mathematics, 2016, Nr 13 (17)

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Licencja:

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Lokalizacja oryginału:

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