TY - CHAP
T1 - From Royaumont to Lyon
T2 - Applications and Modelling During the 1960s
AU - De Bock, Dirk
AU - Zwaneveld, Bert
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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 convinced 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.
AB - 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 convinced 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.
KW - Hans Freudenthal,ICME-1 · Modern mathematics · New Math · Realistic Mathematics Education · Royaumont Seminar
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-37673-4_35
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-37673-4_35
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030376727
T3 - International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling
SP - 407
EP - 417
BT - Mathematical Modelling Education and Sense-making
A2 - Stillman, Gloria Ann
A2 - Kaiser, Gabriele
A2 - Lampen, Christine Erna
PB - Springer Nature Switzerland AG
CY - Cham
ER -