If all children then do have a right to the power of mathematics (Wickett, 2000), then the teacher has a responsibility to give all students access. ... Their four sets comprise:: Homonymy, whereby words of the same form have different meanings (such as bow, bank, leaves); Polysemy, where a word may have two or more similar meanings (such as the openings in either a river or ones face suggested by the word mouth); Homophony, for distinct words with the same pronunciation (like two/to/too or boar/bore); and Shifts of Application, where a word will convey the same sense but with ...

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