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 in their country. The New Math advocates were convinced that a deep knowledge and understanding of the structures of modern mathematics was a prerequisite to arrive at substantial applications, but in actual classroom practices the applied side of mathematics was often completely neglected. But already at the Royaumont Seminar 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, a period which is still less well documented in the history of our field.
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 in their country. The New Math advocates were convinced that a deep knowledge and understanding of the structures of modern mathematics was a prerequisite to arrive at substantial applications, but in actual classroom practices the applied side of mathematics was often completely neglected. But already at the Royaumont Seminar 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, a period which is still less well documented in the history of our field.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Event | International Conference on the Teaching of Modelling and Applications - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: 23 Jul 2017 → 28 Jul 2017 Conference number: 18 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on the Teaching of Modelling and Applications |
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| Abbreviated title | ICTMA |
| Country/Territory | South Africa |
| City | Cape Town |
| Period | 23/07/17 → 28/07/17 |