From Royaumont to Lyon: Applications and Modelling During the 1960s

Dirk De Bock; Bert Zwaneveld

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37673-4_35

From Royaumont to Lyon: Applications and Modelling During the 1960s

Dirk De Bock^*, Bert Zwaneveld

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Abstract

At the Royaumont Seminar (1959), the New Math reform was officially launched. In the decade between Royaumont and the first ICME congress in Lyon (1969), many mathematics educators were involved in actions to facilitate the implementation of the New Math reform. The New Math advocates were onvinced
that a deep knowledge and understanding of the structures of modern mathematics were prerequisites to arrive at substantial applications, but in actual classroom practices, the applied side of mathematics was often completely neglected. But already in Royaumont, there were alternative voices who pleaded for taking the role of applications seriously. We investigate the arguments for integrating applications in mathematics education, as well as the kind of (new) applications that were envisaged, at the Royaumont Seminar and in the decade thereafter.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mathematical Modelling Education and Sense-making
Editors	Gloria Ann Stillman, Gabriele Kaiser, Christine Erna Lampen
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Chapter	35
Pages	407-417
Number of pages	11
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030376734
ISBN (Print)	9783030376727
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37673-4_35
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Series	International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling
ISSN	2211-4920

Keywords

Hans Freudenthal,ICME-1 · Modern mathematics · New Math · Realistic Mathematics Education · Royaumont Seminar

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De Bock, D., & Zwaneveld, B. (2020). From Royaumont to Lyon: Applications and Modelling During the 1960s. In G. A. Stillman, G. Kaiser, & C. E. Lampen (Eds.), Mathematical Modelling Education and Sense-making (1 ed., pp. 407-417). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37673-4_35

De Bock, Dirk ; Zwaneveld, Bert. / From Royaumont to Lyon : Applications and Modelling During the 1960s. Mathematical Modelling Education and Sense-making. editor / Gloria Ann Stillman ; Gabriele Kaiser ; Christine Erna Lampen. 1. ed. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020. pp. 407-417 (International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling).

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From Royaumont to Lyon: Applications and Modelling During the 1960s. / De Bock, Dirk; Zwaneveld, Bert.
Mathematical Modelling Education and Sense-making. ed. / Gloria Ann Stillman; Gabriele Kaiser; Christine Erna Lampen. 1. ed. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020. p. 407-417 (International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling).

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De Bock D, Zwaneveld B. From Royaumont to Lyon: Applications and Modelling During the 1960s. In Stillman GA, Kaiser G, Lampen CE, editors, Mathematical Modelling Education and Sense-making. 1 ed. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2020. p. 407-417. (International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-37673-4_35

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