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Modern mathematics : an international movement? / Dirk De Bock, editor.

Bock, Dirk de, editor.
2023
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Title
Modern mathematics : an international movement? / Dirk De Bock, editor.
ISBN
9783031111662 (electronic bk.)
3031111664 (electronic bk.)
9783031111655
3031111656
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11166-2
Published
Cham : Springer, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xli, 596 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-11166-2 doi
Call Number
QA11.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
510.71
Summary
The international New Math developments between about 1950 through 1980, are regarded by many mathematics educators and education historians as the most historically important development in curricula of the twentieth century. It attracted the attention of local and international politicians, of teachers, and of parents, and influenced the teaching and learning of mathematics at all levelskindergarten to college graduatein many nations. After garnering much initial support it began to attract criticism. But, as Bill Jacob and the late Jerry Becker show in Chapter 17, some of the effects became entrenched. This volume, edited by Professor Dirk De Bock, of Belgium, provides an outstanding overview of the New Math/modern mathematics movement. Chapter authors provide exceptionally high-quality analyses of the rise of the movement, and of subsequent developments, within a range of nations. The first few chapters show how the initial leadership came from mathematicians in European nations and in the United States of America. The background leaders in Europe were Caleb Gattegno and members of a mysterious group of mainly French pure mathematicians, who since the 1930s had published under the name of (a fictitious) Nicolas Bourbaki. In the United States, there emerged, during the 1950s various attempts to improve U.S. mathematics curricula and teaching, especially in secondary schools and colleges. This side of the story climaxed in 1957 when the Soviet Union succeeded in launching Sputnik, the first satellite. Undoubtedly, this is a landmark publication in education. The foreword was written by Professor Bob Moon, one of a few other scholars to have written on the New Math from an international perspective. The final epilogue chapter, by Professor Geert Vanpaemel, a historian, draws together the overall thrust of the volume, and makes links with the general history of curriculum development, especially in science education, including recent globalization trends.
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History of mathematics education.
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Intro
Foreword
References
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abstracts
Preface to the Series
Preface to the Book
Author Biographies
Chapter 1: Modern Mathematics: An International Movement Diversely Shaped in National Contexts
Introduction
An American Cradle and a European Cradle
Dissemination of the Reform
Characterization of the Reform
A Failed Reform?
References
Part I: Preparing the Reform on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Chapter 2: The Rise of the American New Math Movement: How National Security Anxiety and Mathematical Modernism Disrupted the School Curriculum
Introduction
Emergence of Mathematical Workforce Demands in the 1940s
The Promotion of "Modern" Mathematics for Undergraduates
Emergence of Secondary School Reform
Sputnik and Its Aftermath
Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 3: The Early Roots of the European Modern Mathematics Movement: How a Model for the Science of Mathematics Became a Model for Mathematics Education
Introduction

The International Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching
Modern Mathematics as an Educational Project
Structures in Mathematics and Child Psychology
The Preparatory Meetings: Defining an Agenda
A Decisive Meeting Between the Bourbakists and Piaget
Dissemination and Early Developments at National Levels
The Ongoing Debate Within CIEAEM
Early National Developments
Discussion
References
Chapter 4: The Royaumont Seminar as a Booster of Communication and Internationalization in the World of Mathematics Education
Introduction

Meetings on Mathematics Education Before Royaumont
Royaumont
Bodies Promoting Internationalization in Mathematics Education
The Seminar of Royaumont: Not Only "Euclid Must Go!"
In the Aftermath of Royaumont
Aarhus, Denmark
Zagreb-Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
Bologna, Italy
Stockholm, Sweden. Modern Mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1962
Athens, Greece
In the United States of America: The Conference in Cambridge (MA)
Frascati, Italy
From Milano Marittima, Italy, to Echternach, Luxembourg
Modern Mathematics Goes Beyond the Iron Curtain

Budapest, Hungary
Moscow, USSR. Modern Mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1966
Bucharest, Romania
Modern Mathematics in Other Hemispheres
Latin America
Africa and Asia
Toward New Horizons
Utrecht 1964, Netherlands
Utrecht 1967, Netherlands
Conclusions
Dramatis Personae
Much Ado About Nothing?
References
Part II: Implementation of the Reform Around the World
Chapter 5: The Modern Mathematics Movement in France: Reforming to What Ends? The Contribution of a Cross-Over Approach to Modernity
Introduction

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