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Perspectives on School Algebra
This book confronts the issue of how young people can find a way into the world of algebra. The contributions represent multiple perspectives which include an analysis of …
Mathematical Knowledge: Its Growth Through Teaching
In the first BACOMET volume different perspectives on issues concerning teacher education in mathematics were presented (B. Christiansen, A. G. Howson and M. Otte, Perspectives on …
Towards a Philosophy of Critical Mathematics Education
In Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell gives a description of different forms of suppression. We learn about the telescreens placed everywhere, through which it is possible for …
Approaches to Algebra
In Greek geometry, there is an arithmetic of magnitudes in which, in terms of numbers, only integers are involved. This theory of measure is limited to exact measure. Operations on …
Mathematical Knowledge in Teaching
The quality of primary and secondary school mathematics teaching is generally agreed to depend crucially on the subject-related knowledge of the teacher. However, there is …
Towards a Philosophy of Critical Mathematics Education
In Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell gives a description of different forms of suppression. We learn about the telescreens placed everywhere, through which it is possible for …
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 …
Mathematics Education and Language
Contemporary thinking on philosophy and the social sciences has primarily focused on the centrality of language in understanding societies and individuals; important developments …
Equity in Discourse for Mathematics Education
This book explores the connection between the ways people speak in mathematics classrooms and their opportunities to learn mathematics. The words spoken, heard, written and read in …
Mathematics for Tomorrow’s Young Children
Social constructivism is just one view of learning that places emphasis on the social aspects of learning. Other theoretical positions, such as activity theory, also emphasise the …
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. …
A Journey in Mathematics Education Research
Our objective is to publish a book that lays out the theoretical constructs and research methodologies within mathematics education that have been developed by Paul Cobb and …