Fragile, yet Crucial: The Relationship Between Mathematicians and Researchers in Mathematics Education

2008 ◽  
pp. 257-292
Author(s):  
Elena Nardi
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wagner Rodrigues Valente ◽  
Maria Célia Leme da Silva

Abstract This article discusses results from research developed on the transformations in mathematics teaching in primary school and the mathematics in teacher training from the 19th century to the mid-20th century in Brazil. We have analyzed the understanding of the relationship between the mathematical disciplinary field and pedagogy in order to confirm the theoretical hypothesis that the interactions between the two fields produce mathematics of different natures, which are interconnected.


Author(s):  
Fulvia Furinghetti ◽  
Livia Giacardi ◽  
Marta Menghini

The years after WWII up to the late 1960s were crucial in the evolution of ICMI (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction) for both the settlement of some institutional aspects (mainly concerning the relationship with mathematicians) and the establishment of new trends of the activities. By referring to unpublished documents, this paper focuses on the role of two key figures in those years: Heinrich Behnke and Hans Freudenthal. As ICMI Secretary and later as President, Behnke tried to reshape the newborn ICMI after WWII and clarify the relationship with mathematicians. His action was completed by Freudenthal, who, as ICMI President, broke with the past and promoted initiatives that fostered the development of mathematics education as an academic field and the independence of ICMI from the community of mathematicians. Keywords: history, ICMI, mathematicians, mathematics education


1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-397

Our purpose in this short article is to discuss two recent developments that bear directly on the relationship between the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the mathematics education research community. The first concerns the realignment of the duties of the Director of Research within the revised NCTM staff structure, and the second concerns the Research Advisory Committee's (RAC's) changing role within NCTM.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-23
Author(s):  
Gilberto Januario ◽  
Ana Lúcia Manrique

From the 1990s, teachers have been provided with a considerable number of materials produced and distributed by different governments to develop a mathematics curriculum to perform as curriculum implementers and promote the mathematical reform of different teaching systems. These resources have been researching tools. However, the types of use that teachers make of them are still little explored. In this article, we present the results of a study that aimed to understand the relationship between teacher-curriculum materials in the area of mathematics education, which takes discussions about teaching competencies of curriculum design as theoretical contributions. The research analysed a research report, and meta-analysis was the methodology adopted. The results indicate that affordances and constraints qualify the materials and potentiate the agency and its displacement, both for teachers and for materials, thus imparting different interactions between these two agents of curriculum development in mathematics.


Author(s):  
Verilda Speridião Kluth

ResumoEste artigo tem o propósito de esclarecer os vínculos da corrente filosófica Fenomenologia com a metodologia de pesquisa fenomenológica - a Rede de Significação, que perpassa princípios fenomenológicos e a elaboração de um pensar sobre a ciência da linguagem, apresentando um modo de compreendê-la ao inspirar-se em pensamentos merleau-pontyanos e na aplicação destes em contextos de pesquisa que tomam depoimentos como sua matéria-prima, ou seja, como o pré-reflexivo da pesquisa. Com os exemplos de pesquisa já concluídas na região de inquérito da Educação Matemática que utilizaram a metodologia apresentada, pretende-se mostrar o alcance e abrangência do método para essa área. O texto trata ainda de alguns aspectos do relacionamento do fazer do pesquisador com o método em questão. E consagra o método como uma hermenêutica fenomenológica de vivências, via linguagem, ao buscar compreensões que põem à mostra o sentido do fenômeno pesquisado.Palavras-chave: Fenomenologia; Linguagem, Rede de Significação, Pesquisa em Educação Matemática.AbstractThis article aims to clarify the bonds between the philosophical current, Phenomenology, and the phenomenological research methodology - the Network of Meanings, which crisscrosses the phenomenological principles, the elaboration of a thinking about the science of language, presenting a way of assuming it inspired by Merleau-Pontyan thoughts and applying them in research contexts that take testimonies as their raw material, i.e., as a pre-reflective action of the research. With the research examples already completed in the mathematics education inquiry region that used the methodology presented, we intend to show the scope of the method for this area. The text also deals with some aspects of the relationship between the researcher's doing and the method at stake, which is recognised as a phenomenological hermeneutic of lived experiences through language when searching for understandings that show the meaning of the phenomenon researched.Keywords: Phenomenology; Language, Network of Meanings, Research in Mathematics EducationResumenEste artículo tiene como objetivo esclarecer los vínculos de la corriente filosófica Fenomenología con la metodología de investigación fenomenológica - la Red de Significación, que recorre principios fenomenológicos, la elaboración de un pensamiento sobre la ciencia del lenguaje, presentando una forma de comprenderla inspirándose en los pensamientos de Merleau-Ponty y aplicándolos en contextos de investigación que toman los testimonios como materia prima, es decir, como prerreflexión de la investigación. Con los ejemplos de investigación ya concluidos en la región de estudios de la Educación Matemática que utilizó la metodología presentada, se pretende mostrar el alcance del método para esta área. El texto también trata algunos aspectos de la relación del quehacer del investigador con el método en cuestión. Y consagra el método como hermenéutica fenomenológica de vivencias a través del lenguaje, al buscar entendimientos que muestren el sentido del fenómeno investigado.Palabras clave: Fenomenología; Lenguaje, Red de Significación, Investigación en Educación Matemática


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Muhammad Win Afgani ◽  
Didi Suryadi ◽  
Jarnawi Afgani Dahlan

This study aimed to explain the relationship between self-concept and mathematics procedural knowledge among undergraduate students of mathematics education. This study investigated the affective and cognitive aspect of students in the learning of mathematics. The method in this study surveyed with non-probability sampling technique. The subjects were 133 undergraduate students of mathematics education from public and private university in Palembang, Indonesia. 66 of them were undergraduate students in public university. The rest of them were undergraduate students in a private university. The instruments that were used are questionnaire of self-concept and essay test of mathematics procedural knowledge. The result from the Spearman Rank Correlation showed Sig. = 0.006 < 0.05. From that result, we conclude that there is a significant relationship between undergraduate students’ self-concept and their mathematics procedural knowledge.


Author(s):  
Juliano Bona ◽  
Camila Thaisa Alves Bona ◽  
José Marcelo Freitas de Luna

When we think of mathematics we feel we are facing a kind of universal knowledge that brings us closer to the truth. Transcendence is the space where we place this kind of objectification of mathematics. However, criticism of this type of hegemonic mathematics has been growing in recent years. In the face of hegemony and criticism, the objective of this article is to analyze internationalization of the curriculum (IoC) as the plane of immanence, and the process of conceptual construction in the field of philosophy. On these bases which in some ways represent the background that supports the critique of hegemonic mathematics, we can think of other possibilities that we call intermathematics. As an essay text, it follows theoretical contribution: BACHELARD (2008), BICUDO (1993), CANDAU (2002), DELEUZE (2000), DELEUZE (1996), FOUCAULT (2013), LEASK (20015), LUNA (2016), SANTOS (2002), SILVA (2010). To achieve the general objective, we divide the analysis into three parts. First, we approach the relationship between IoC and the immanence plan in the field of mathematics education. In a second moment, we discuss the idea of the plane of immanence and the IoC. Finally, we articulate methodological aspects, the plane of immanence and the conceptual construction process in an attempt to construct intermathematic possibilities. In this movement, we emphasize not only criticism of hegemonic mathematics, but also we indicate the ways of thinking mathematics in immanence through geo-mathematics, ethnomathematics and intermathematics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 852-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Chamberlin

The idea for this book originated at the first joint meeting of the Korean Mathematical Society and the American Mathematical Society, held in Seoul, South Korea, on December 16–20, 2009. Contributing authors from Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Israel, Iran, China, Canada, South Korea, and the United States provide international perspectives on creativity and giftedness in mathematics education. The vast majority of the book is comprised of reports from empirical studies. In this respect, the book is not theory driven, per se. Instead, the focus is on reporting findings from studies in an attempt to elucidate the relationship between giftedness and creativity in mathematics. In this review, I provide a brief synopsis of each chapter (except Chapter 1, which outlines the book) and discuss the relevance of the work to the literature on mathematical creativity and giftedness. The overview of the chapters is followed by general remarks on the state of mathematics education research on creativity and giftedness and final thoughts about the contribution of this book to the field.


Author(s):  
Michèle Artigue

RésuméDans cet article s’interrogeant sur les méthodologies de recherche en didactique, après une introduction resituant ce questionnement dans l’histoire de ce champ de recherche, et les méthodologies au sein des praxéologies de recherche, je m’intéresse dans un premier temps à l’ingénierie didactique, une méthodologie emblématique de la volonté des didacticiens d’élaborer des méthodes de recherche répondant à leurs besoins spécifiques. Je rappelle ses caractéristiques et montre aussi son évolution au contact de différentes théories. Dans un second temps, j’examine les relations entre ingénierie didactique et design-based research, en incluant le cas de l’ingénierie didactique coopérative. J’envisage ensuite diverses évolutions méthodologiques liées à l’évolution des problématiques et théories didactiques et à celle des moyens technologiques de la recherche, avant d’aborder dans une dernière section ces questions méthodologiques sous l’angle des rapports entre recherche et action didactique.      Mots clefs : Didactique des mathématiques, Méthodologie de recherche, Praxéologie de recherche, Ingénierie didactique, Design-based research, Ingénierie didactique coopérative.AbstractIn this article questioning research methodologies in mathematics education, after an introduction that situates this questioning in the history of this field of research, and the methodologies within research praxeologies, I first consider didactic engineering, a methodology that is emblematic of the willingness of didacticians to develop research methods meeting their specific needs. I recall its characteristics and also show its evolution in the contact with different theories. Secondly, I examine the relationship between didactic engineering and design-based research, including the case of cooperative didactic engineering. I then consider various methodological evolutions linked to the evolution of research problematics and theories and to the evolution of technological means of research, before addressing, in a last section, these methodological questions from the point of view of the relationship between research and didactic action.Key words: Didactics of mathematics, Mathematics education, Research methodology, Research praxeology, Didactic engineering, Design-based research, Cooperative didactic engineering.ResumenEn este artículo cuestionando las metodologías de investigación en didáctica de las matemáticas, después de una introducción que resitúa este cuestionamiento en la historia de este campo de investigación, y las metodologías dentro de las praxeologías de investigación, me intereso en primer lugar a la ingeniería didáctica, una metodología emblemática de la voluntad de los didactas de desarrollar métodos de investigación que respondan a sus necesidades específicas. Recuerdo sus características y también muestro su evolución en el contacto con diferentes teorías. En segundo lugar, examino la relación entre la ingeniería didáctica y la investigación basada en el diseño, incluyendo el caso de la ingeniería didáctica cooperativa. A continuación, considero diversas evoluciones metodológicas vinculadas a la evolución de las problemáticas y teorías didácticas y a la evolución de los medios tecnológicos de investigación, antes de abordar en una última sección estas cuestiones metodológicas desde la perspectiva de la relación entre la investigación y la acción didáctica. Palabras claves: Didáctica de las matemáticas, Metodología de investigación, Praxeología de investigación, Ingeniería didáctica, Investigación basada en el diseño, Ingeniería didáctica cooperativa.


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