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Symbolizing, Modeling and Tool Use in Mathematics Education
The almost universal rejection of the notion of symbols as `carriers of meaning' has created the need to find an alternative for the use of models as embodiments of mathematical …
Chance Encounters: Probability in Education
This book has been written to fIll a substantial gap in the current literature in mathemat ical education. Throughout the world, school mathematical curricula have incorporated …
On the Teaching of Linear Algebra
To a large extent, it lies, no doubt, in what is presented in this work under the title of ‘meta lever‘, a method which it is certainly interesting to develop and further refine. …
Why Teach Mathematics?
Seven years after its publication in Germany, this book is now available to English readers. In the German-speaking countries, the publication led to intense controversies on the …
Transitions Between Contexts of Mathematical Practices
This book focuses attention on mathematics learners in transition and on their practices in different contexts; on the institutional and socio-cultural framing of the transition …
Advanced Mathematical Thinking
Explores the psychology of thinking about post-secondary level mathematics, suggesting that the way it is taught does not correspond to the way it is learned. Addressed to …
Becoming a Mathematician
This book considers the views of participants in the process of becoming a mathematician, that is, the students and the graduates. This book investigates the people who carry out …
Mathematics Education and Language
`Contemporary thinking on philosophy and the social sciences has been dominated by analyses that emphasise the importance of language in understanding societies and individuals …
Cultural Perspectives on the Mathematics Classroom
Mathematics teaching and learning have been dominated by a concern for the intellectual readiness of the child, debates over rote learning versus understanding and, recently, …
Theory of Didactical Situations in Mathematics
On the occasion of the celebration of “Twenty Years of Didactique of Ma- ematics” in France, Jeremy Kilpatrick commented that though the works of Guy Brousseau are known through …
Fractions in Realistic Mathematics Education
Windows on Mathematical Meanings
This book is the culmination of some ten years' theoretical and empirical investigation. Throughout this period, we have come into contact with many who have stimulated our …