Radical Constructivism in Mathematics Education

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Glasersfeld, Ernst Von (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 7
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Philosophy of Education.

Mathematics is the science of acts without things - and through this, of things one can define by acts. 1 Paul Valéry The essays collected in this volume form a mosaik of theory, research, and practice directed at the task of spreading mathematical knowledge. They address questions raised by the rec...

Table of Contents:

• There is No More Safety in Numbers: A New Conception of Mathematics Teaching
• Mathematical Discussions
• Notations and Representations as Mediators of Constructive Processes
• Making Math Mean
• Treatment of Refutations: Aspects of the Complexity of a Constructivist Approach to Mathematics Learning
• Learning to Listen: A Student’s Understanding of Powers of Ten
• Understanding Students’ Beliefs About Probability
• A Constructivist Approach to Second Grade Mathematics
• The Constructivist Teaching Experiment: Illustrations and Implications
• Didactic Constructivism
• Two Layers of Constructivist Curricular Interaction.