Humanizing Mathematics: The Humanistic Impression in the Course for Mathematics Teaching

Humanizing Mathematics: The Humanistic Impression in the Course for Mathematics Teaching

The potential of teaching modelling problems in the national curriculum for changing students’ attitude towards mathematics

The National curriculum of Islamic Republic of Iran has been focused on promoting students’ modeling skills. In consideration of this emphasis, this study has investigated the attitudes towards mathematics and the views towards mathematical modeling problems of 244 students in grade 10. This research was conducted with a pre-test, followed by an educational intervention and a post-test. During ...

Postmodern View of Humanistic Mathematics

This article is an investigation of humanism in philosophy of mathematics from the point of view of postmodernism. We claim that humanistic mathematics is compatible with postmodernism which is taking over everything we have, do, or wish. Omar Khayyam, an Iranian mathematician and poet: A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilde...

The trace of realistic mathematics education in the school mathematics in Iran

Abstract: In the late 70's, in reaction to both "New Math" movement in the United States and "mechanistic mathematics education" approach to mathematics education in Netherland, Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) has been introduced by Freudenthal and his colleagues. In this educational approach, Freudenthal considered mathematics as a human activity. Based on this approach, education should...

Wandering About: Analogy, Ambiguity and Humanistic Mathematics