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Place of Mathematics curriculum in present school curriculum
It is in this context, that National Curriculum Framework (NCF, 2005), stated that
the main goal of Mathematics education in schools is the mathematisation of the child's
thought processes. Basically, it means that children should learn to think about any situa-
tion using the language of Mathematics. Further NCF argued that, for the realisation of this
vision, school Mathematics needs to recognize and try to work to achieve the following
aims of teaching Mathematics.