In children and number martin hughes proposes a new perspective on childrens early attempts to understand mathematics he describes the surprisingly substantial knowledge about number which children acquire naturally before they start school and contrasts this with the difficulties presented by the formal written symbolism of mathematics in the classroom he argues that children need to build links between their informal and their formal understanding of number and shows what happens when . In children and number martin hughes proposes a new perspective on childrens early attempts to understand mathematics he describes the surprisingly substantial knowledge about number which. In children and number martin hughes proposes a new perspective on childrens early attempts to understand mathematics he describes the surprisingly substantial knowledge about number which children acquire naturally before they start school and contrasts this with the difficulties presented by the formal written symbolism of mathematics in the classroom he argues that children need to . Children and number difficulties in learning mathematics item preview remove circle share or embed this item embed embed for wordpresscom hosted blogs and archiveorg item description tags want more advanced embedding details examples and help