According to NCF 2005
"Developing children's abilities for Mathematisation is the main goal of Mathematics education.
The narrow aim of school Mathematics is to develop 'useful' capabilities. " Here mathematisation refers to develop child's abilities
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to develop the child's resources to think and reason mathematically, to pursue assumption to their logical conclusion and to handle abstraction
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in performing all number operations efficiently including of finding square root and cube root
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to formulate theorem of geometry and their proof independently
4
to translate word problems into linear equations