Interfaces between Mathematical Practices and Mathematical Education

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schubring, Gert (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching,
• Subjects: Mathematics-Study and teaching .; Education-History.; Mathematics.; History.; Mathematics Education.; History of Education.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

This contributed volume investigates the active role of the different contexts of mathematics teaching on the evolution of the practices of mathematical concepts, with particular focus on their foundations. The book aims to deconstruct the strong and generally wide-held conviction that research in m...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1.Foundations of mathematics buried in school garbage (Southern Mesopotamia, early second millennium BCE)
• 2. From the practice of explanation to the ideology of demonstration: an informal essay
• 3.Catholicism and Mathematics in the Early Modernity
• 4."Je n'ai point ambitionnée d'être neuf": Modern Geometry in Early Nineteenth-Century French Textbooks
• 5.The impact of teaching mathematics upon the development of mathematical practices
• 6.A Multiple Perspective Approach to History of Mathematics: Mathematical programming and Rashevsky's early development of mathematical biology in the 20th century
• 7.Teaching as an indicator of mathematical practices.