Didactical Phenomenology Of Mathematical Structures (mathematics Education Library)
by Hans Freudenthal /
2008 / English / PDF
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The launch ofa new book series is always a challenging eventn ot
only for the Editorial Board and the Publisher, but also, and more
particularly, for the first author. Both the Editorial Board and
the Publisher are delightedt hat the first author in this series
isw ell able to meet the challenge. Professor Freudenthal needs no
introduction toanyone in the Mathematics Education field and it is
particularly fitting that his book should be the first in this new
series because it was in 1968 that he, and Reidel, produced the
first issue oft he journal Edu cational Studies in Mathematics.
Breakingfresh ground is therefore nothing new to Professor
Freudenthal and this book illustrates well his pleasure at such a
task. To be strictly correct the ‘ground’ which he has broken here
is not new, but aswith Mathematics as an Educational Task and
Weeding and Sowing, it is rather the novelty oft he manner in which
he has carried out his analysis which provides us with so many
fresh perspectives. It is our intention that this new book series
should provide those who work int he emerging discipline of
mathematicseducation with an essential resource, and at a time of
considerable concern about the whole mathematics cu rriculum this
book represents just such resource. ALAN J. BISHOP Managing Editor
vii A LOOK BACKWARD AND A LOOK FORWARD Men die, systems last.
The launch ofa new book series is always a challenging eventn ot
only for the Editorial Board and the Publisher, but also, and more
particularly, for the first author. Both the Editorial Board and
the Publisher are delightedt hat the first author in this series
isw ell able to meet the challenge. Professor Freudenthal needs no
introduction toanyone in the Mathematics Education field and it is
particularly fitting that his book should be the first in this new
series because it was in 1968 that he, and Reidel, produced the
first issue oft he journal Edu cational Studies in Mathematics.
Breakingfresh ground is therefore nothing new to Professor
Freudenthal and this book illustrates well his pleasure at such a
task. To be strictly correct the ‘ground’ which he has broken here
is not new, but aswith Mathematics as an Educational Task and
Weeding and Sowing, it is rather the novelty oft he manner in which
he has carried out his analysis which provides us with so many
fresh perspectives. It is our intention that this new book series
should provide those who work int he emerging discipline of
mathematicseducation with an essential resource, and at a time of
considerable concern about the whole mathematics cu rriculum this
book represents just such resource. ALAN J. BISHOP Managing Editor
vii A LOOK BACKWARD AND A LOOK FORWARD Men die, systems last.