The Legacy of Hans Freudenthal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legacy of Hans Freudenthal write by Leen Streefland. This book was released on 2013-03-09. The Legacy of Hans Freudenthal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Legacy of Freudenthal pays homage to Freudenthal and his work on mathematics, its history and education. Almost all authors were his scholars or co-workers. They testify to what they learned from him. Freudenthal himself contributes posthumously. His didactical phenomenology of the concept of force is both provocative and revealing in its originality, compared with what is usually found in physics instruction. Freudenthal is portrayed as a universal human being by Josette Adda. He made considerable contributions to mathematics itself, e.g. on homotopy theory and Lie groups in geometry. The exposition of Freudenthal's mathematical life and work is on Van Est's account. Henk Bos discusses his historical work. The essay review of the 8th edition of Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie serves as a vehicle of thought. The main part of the book, however, concerns Freudenthal's work on mathematics education. Christine Keitel reviews his final book Revisiting Mathematics Education (1991). Fred Goffree describes Freudenthal's `Working on Mathematics Education' both from an historical as well as a theoretical perspective. Adrian Treffers analyses Freudenthal's influence on the development of realistic mathematics education at primary level in the Netherlands, especially his influence on the Wiskobas-project of the former IOWO. Freudenthal once predicted the disappearance of mathematics as an individual subject in education sometime around the year 2000, because it would by then have merged with integrated thematic contexts. Jan de Lange anticipates this future development and shows that Freudenthal's prediction will not come true after all. Reflective interludes unveil how he might have influenced those developments. Freudenthal contributed a wealth of ideas and conceptual tools to the development of mathematics education -- on contexts, didactical phenomenology, guided reinvention, mathematisation, the constitution of mental objects, the development of reflective thinking, levels in learning processes, the development of a mathematical attitude and so on -- but he did not design very much concrete material. Leen Streefland deals with the question of design from a theoretical point of view, while applying Freudenthal's ideas on changing perspective and shifting. For teachers, researchers, mathematics educators, mathematicians, educationalists, psychologists and policy makers.
The Legacy of Hans Freudenthal
The Legacy of Hans Freudenthal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legacy of Hans Freudenthal write by Leen Streefland. This book was released on 1993. The Legacy of Hans Freudenthal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908-2008: People, Events, and Challenges in Mathematics Education
The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908-2008: People, Events, and Challenges in Mathematics Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908-2008: People, Events, and Challenges in Mathematics Education write by Fulvia Furinghetti. This book was released on 2023-01-30. The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908-2008: People, Events, and Challenges in Mathematics Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book presents the history of ICMI trough a prosopographical approach. In other words, it pays a lot of attention to the actors of the International movement. The portraits of the members of the ICMI Central Committees (1908-1936) and ICMI Executive Committees (1952-2008), and other eminent figures in ICMI history, who have passed away in the first 100 years of its life, are the guiding thread of the volume. Each portrait includes: · Biographical information · An outline of the various contributions made by the individual in question to the study of problems pertaining to mathematics teaching/education · Primary bibliography · Secondary with particular attention to the publications concerning the teaching of mathematics · Images: photos, book frontispieces, relevant manuscripts The authors of the portraits (30 altogether) are researchers in the history of mathematics, mathematics, and mathematics education. The focus on the officer’s role within ICMI and on his/her contributions to mathematics education, make the portraits different from usual biographies. In particular, since most officers were active mathematicians, the portraits shed light on aspects of their lesser-known activity. Connecting chapters place the action of these figures in the historical context and in the different phases of ICMI history.
Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development
Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development write by Joseph W. Dauben. This book was released on 2002-09-23. Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As an historiographic monograph, this book offers a detailed survey of the professional evolution and significance of an entire discipline devoted to the history of science. It provides both an intellectual and a social history of the development of the subject from the first such effort written by the ancient Greek author Eudemus in the Fourth Century BC, to the founding of the international journal, Historia Mathematica, by Kenneth O. May in the early 1970s.
All Positive Action Starts with Criticism
All Positive Action Starts with Criticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All Positive Action Starts with Criticism write by Sacha la Bastide-van Gemert. This book was released on 2015-01-16. All Positive Action Starts with Criticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study provides a historical analysis of Freudenthal’s didactic ideas and his didactic career. It is partly biographical, but also contributes to the historiography of mathematics education and addresses closely related questions such as: what is mathematics and where does it start? Which role does mathematics play in society and what influence does it have on the prevailing views concerning its accompanying didactics?. Hans Freudenthal (1905–1990), professor in mathematics, scientist, literator, but above all mathematics-educator, was inextricably linked to the changes which took place in mathematics education and didactics during the second half of the last century. His diversity as a scientist and his inexhaustible efforts to establish the didactics of mathematics as a seriously pursued science, made Freudenthal's influence in this area considerable. He foresaw an essential, practical role for mathematics in everyone’s life, encouraging students to discover and create mathematics themselves, instead of imposing a ready-made mathematical system. The theory of mathematics education thus developed in the Netherlands would gain world fame in the following decades. Today, in the light of the discussions about mathematics education, in which the call for `genuine’ mathematics instead of the so-called 'kindergarten'-mathematics can be heard, Freudenthal's approach seems to be passé. However, the outcome of this study (which is mainly based on documents from Freudenthal’s vast personal archive) shows a more refined picture. The direct identification of 'kindergarten'-mathematics with Freudenthal’s view on mathematics education is not justified. 'Realistic mathematics' as advocated by Freudenthal includes more than just a practical introductory and should, among other things, always aim at teaching 'genuine' mathematics in the end.
