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1 online resource (xli, 596 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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History of mathematics education |
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History of mathematics education.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abstracts -- Preface to the Series -- Preface to the Book -- Author Biographies -- Chapter 1: Modern Mathematics: An International Movement Diversely Shaped in National Contexts -- Introduction -- An American Cradle and a European Cradle -- Dissemination of the Reform -- Characterization of the Reform -- A Failed Reform? -- References -- Part I: Preparing the Reform on Both Sides of the Atlantic |
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Chapter 2: The Rise of the American New Math Movement: How National Security Anxiety and Mathematical Modernism Disrupted the School Curriculum -- Introduction -- Emergence of Mathematical Workforce Demands in the 1940s -- The Promotion of "Modern" Mathematics for Undergraduates -- Emergence of Secondary School Reform -- Sputnik and Its Aftermath -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: The Early Roots of the European Modern Mathematics Movement: How a Model for the Science of Mathematics Became a Model for Mathematics Education -- Introduction |
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The International Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching -- Modern Mathematics as an Educational Project -- Structures in Mathematics and Child Psychology -- The Preparatory Meetings: Defining an Agenda -- A Decisive Meeting Between the Bourbakists and Piaget -- Dissemination and Early Developments at National Levels -- The Ongoing Debate Within CIEAEM -- Early National Developments -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Royaumont Seminar as a Booster of Communication and Internationalization in the World of Mathematics Education -- Introduction |
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Meetings on Mathematics Education Before Royaumont -- Royaumont -- Bodies Promoting Internationalization in Mathematics Education -- The Seminar of Royaumont: Not Only "Euclid Must Go!" -- In the Aftermath of Royaumont -- Aarhus, Denmark -- Zagreb-Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia -- Bologna, Italy -- Stockholm, Sweden. Modern Mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1962 -- Athens, Greece -- In the United States of America: The Conference in Cambridge (MA) -- Frascati, Italy -- From Milano Marittima, Italy, to Echternach, Luxembourg -- Modern Mathematics Goes Beyond the Iron Curtain |
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Budapest, Hungary -- Moscow, USSR. Modern Mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1966 -- Bucharest, Romania -- Modern Mathematics in Other Hemispheres -- Latin America -- Africa and Asia -- Toward New Horizons -- Utrecht 1964, Netherlands -- Utrecht 1967, Netherlands -- Conclusions -- Dramatis Personae -- Much Ado About Nothing? -- References -- Part II: Implementation of the Reform Around the World -- Chapter 5: The Modern Mathematics Movement in France: Reforming to What Ends? The Contribution of a Cross-Over Approach to Modernity -- Introduction |
| Summary |
The international New Math developments between about 1950 through 1980, are regarded by many mathematics educators and education historians as the most historically important development in curricula of the twentieth century. It attracted the attention of local and international politicians, of teachers, and of parents, and influenced the teaching and learning of mathematics at all levelskindergarten to college graduatein many nations. After garnering much initial support it began to attract criticism. But, as Bill Jacob and the late Jerry Becker show in Chapter 17, some of the effects became entrenched. This volume, edited by Professor Dirk De Bock, of Belgium, provides an outstanding overview of the New Math/modern mathematics movement. Chapter authors provide exceptionally high-quality analyses of the rise of the movement, and of subsequent developments, within a range of nations. The first few chapters show how the initial leadership came from mathematicians in European nations and in the United States of America. The background leaders in Europe were Caleb Gattegno and members of a mysterious group of mainly French pure mathematicians, who since the 1930s had published under the name of (a fictitious) Nicolas Bourbaki. In the United States, there emerged, during the 1950s various attempts to improve U.S. mathematics curricula and teaching, especially in secondary schools and colleges. This side of the story climaxed in 1957 when the Soviet Union succeeded in launching Sputnik, the first satellite. Undoubtedly, this is a landmark publication in education. The foreword was written by Professor Bob Moon, one of a few other scholars to have written on the New Math from an international perspective. The final epilogue chapter, by Professor Geert Vanpaemel, a historian, draws together the overall thrust of the volume, and makes links with the general history of curriculum development, especially in science education, including recent globalization trends |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 16, 2023) |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- History -- 20th century
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bock, Dirk de., editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031111662 |
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3031111664 |
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