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This chapter explores the meaning and processes of learning science and mathematics, and the meaning of being fluent in these subjects in a global society. Since the processes of learning, understanding and knowing are internal to individuals, societies have created external expressions of understandings to provide some kind of measurement to compare individuals’ knowledge expressions in classrooms and among classrooms in the same school, different schools, regional areas in the same country, as well as in countries.
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Wieseman, K.C., Moscovici, H. (2013). What Do You Mean, You Know Science and Mathematics?. In: Learn Science, Learn Math, Learn to Teach Science and Math, Homo Sapiens!. Cultural Perspectives in Science Education, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-155-9_2
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