MATHEMATICS AND 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

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...

Competitions and mathematics education

Mathematics competitions, together with the people and organizations engaged with them, form an immense and vibrant global network today. This network has many roles. Competitions help identify students with higher abilities in mathematics. They motivate these students to develop their talents and to seek professional realization in science. Competitions have positive impact on education and on...

Mathematics and General Education

aspects of arithmetic. Some topics treated as Arithmetic in Syllabus A, are, in Syllabus B, treated as part of the Mathematics curriculum. We now examine these changes, one by one. F: Since the Thirties the use of statistical methode of analysis and representation, in industry, commerce and the social and natural sciences had been growing rapidly. By the early fifties statistical representation...