Mathematics lies at the heart of science and technology impacting on the economic performance of societies since ancient times (OECD, 2010). At the level of individuals too, the development of mathematical proficiency appears correlated with individual development and career prospects across a wide range of professions (RAND Mathematics Study Panel and Loewenberg Ball, 2003). It does not come a...

One of the features of the reform in school mathematics is that school mathematics should be made relevant to the learners. The incorporation of mathematical modelling in school mathematics is one of the ways that is offered to realise the relevance ideal. Ostensibly the inclusion of mathematical modelling will provide school learners opportunities to develop mathematical power i.e. the ability...

In this short note, we give a brief introduction to the status of technology usage in mathematics education in China. We first introduce the government’s effort to build the infrastructure for CAI. Then we discuss representative CAI software systems developed in China. Finally we discuss efforts to integrate technology and education in middle schools, and curriculum developments. 1 Infrastructu...

This paper aims at giving a concise survey of the present state-of-the-art of mathematical modelling in mathematics education and instruction. It will consist of four parts. In part 1, some basic concepts relevant to the topic will be clarified and, in particular, mathematical modelling will be defined in a broad, comprehensive sense. Part 2 will review arguments for the inclusion of modelling ...

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Some methodologies in education research and curriculum development seem almost designed to generate spurious findings and discourage deeper insights. As a result the current emphasis on “research–validated” methods is more likely to block good ideas than to promote them.

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This paper represents the results of special courses given to undergraduate teacher students of «mathematics-computer science» speciality. A general idea that integrated these courses, consist in the training of future teachers for understanding the possibilities and limits of the use of technologies (systems like DERIVE and Cabri-geometre) for support of pedagogical control of learners’ cognit...