John A. Van de Walle Quote

Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.


Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally (ed. Longman Publishing Group, 1994)


Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that...

Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that...

Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that...

Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that...