Interpreting Embodied Mathematics Using Network Theory: Implications for Mathematics Education

What ain’t mathematics education?!

Abstract: In 1996 at the first Iranian Mathematics Education Conference (IMEC1) that was held in Isfahan. I obliged myself as a mathematics educator, to inform the mathematics community at large by presenting a paper entitled “what is mathematics education?” to pave the way for the establishment of the master program of mathematics education in Iran. Now, after 16 years, we need to reflect on t...

Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematics Education, and Philosophy of Mathematics Education

Studying the research scope of mathematics education specialists using keywords

Background and aim: Due to the importance of keywords in the field of research and scientometrics, the keywords used in scientific outputs of mathematics education specialists were investigated in this study to determine the scope of their research. Material and methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on the Persian scientific papers published by mathematics education specialists who ...

Mathematics, Mathematicians, and Mathematics Education

I am one of a growing number of research mathematicians who are substantially engaged with school mathematics education. Such outreach has a long and honorable tradition. In this lecture, I illustrate some of the ways that I think this can be helpful, and even essential. Upon his retirement in 1990 as president of the ICMI, Jean Pierre Kahane spoke perceptively of the intimate connection betwee...

Interpreting Set Theory in Discrete Mathematics: Boolean Relation Theory

Wqo theory = well quasi ordering theory, is a branch of combinatorics which has proved to be a fertile source of deep metamathematical pheneomena. In wqo theory, one freely uses some overtly set theoretic arguments. They are definitely noticeable, although they come fairly early in the interpretation hierarchy. Way before, say, ZFC. A qo (quasi order) is a reflexive transitive relation (A,£). A...