Views on usefulness and applications during the sixties

Dirk De Bock; Bert Zwaneveld

Views on usefulness and applications during the sixties

Dirk De Bock, Bert Zwaneveld

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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 was a prerequisite 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	"Dig where you stand" 5
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, September 19-22, 2017, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Editors	Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Fulvia Furinghetti, Jenneke Krüger, Johan Prytz, Gert Schubring, Harm Jan Smid
Place of Publication	Utrecht
Publisher	Freudenthal Institute
Pages	387-399
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9789082367966
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	Fifth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education - Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Duration: 19 Sept 2017 → 22 Sept 2017

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Conference	Fifth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education
Abbreviated title	ICHME-5
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Utrecht
Period	19/09/17 → 22/09/17

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De Bock, D., & Zwaneveld, B. (2019). Views on usefulness and applications during the sixties. In K. Bjarnadóttir, F. Furinghetti, J. Krüger, J. Prytz, G. Schubring, & H. J. Smid (Eds.), "Dig where you stand" 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, September 19-22, 2017, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands (pp. 387-399). Freudenthal Institute. http://www.fi.uu.nl/publicaties/literatuur/ichme/Dig_where_you_stand-5.pdf

De Bock, Dirk ; Zwaneveld, Bert. / Views on usefulness and applications during the sixties. "Dig where you stand" 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, September 19-22, 2017, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. editor / Kristín Bjarnadóttir ; Fulvia Furinghetti ; Jenneke Krüger ; Johan Prytz ; Gert Schubring ; Harm Jan Smid. Utrecht : Freudenthal Institute, 2019. pp. 387-399

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De Bock, D & Zwaneveld, B 2019, Views on usefulness and applications during the sixties. in K Bjarnadóttir, F Furinghetti, J Krüger, J Prytz, G Schubring & HJ Smid (eds), "Dig where you stand" 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, September 19-22, 2017, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht, pp. 387-399, Fifth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, Utrecht, Netherlands, 19/09/17. <http://www.fi.uu.nl/publicaties/literatuur/ichme/Dig_where_you_stand-5.pdf>

Views on usefulness and applications during the sixties. / De Bock, Dirk; Zwaneveld, Bert.
"Dig where you stand" 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, September 19-22, 2017, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. ed. / Kristín Bjarnadóttir; Fulvia Furinghetti; Jenneke Krüger; Johan Prytz; Gert Schubring; Harm Jan Smid. Utrecht: Freudenthal Institute, 2019. p. 387-399.

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De Bock D, Zwaneveld B. Views on usefulness and applications during the sixties. In Bjarnadóttir K, Furinghetti F, Krüger J, Prytz J, Schubring G, Smid HJ, editors, "Dig where you stand" 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, September 19-22, 2017, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Utrecht: Freudenthal Institute. 2019. p. 387-399

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