Editors:
- Covers recent approaches to foundations of mathematics education is a most extensive way and opens up new horizons for future developments in mathematics education
- Elaborates new perspectives in classroom interactions and highlights the role of signs and representations as means for communication, learning, and scientific discoveries
- Focuses on Michael Otte’s various contributions as sparks for a new source of knowledge in all these fields
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sign Processes in the Mathematics Classroom
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Crossing Boundaries
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History of Mathematics and Mathematics Education
About this book
The advancement of a scientific discipline depends not only on the "big heroes" of a discipline, but also on a community’s ability to reflect on what has been done in the past and what should be done in the future. This volume combines perspectives on both. It celebrates the merits of Michael Otte as one of the most important founding fathers of mathematics education by bringing together all the new and fascinating perspectives created through his career as a bridge builder in the field of interdisciplinary research and cooperation. The perspectives elaborated here are for the greatest part motivated by the impressing variety of Otte’s thoughts; however, the idea is not to look back, but to find out where the research agenda might lead us in the future.
This volume provides new sources of knowledge based on Michael Otte’s fundamental insight that understanding the problems of mathematics education – how to teach, how to learn, how to communicate, how to do, and how to represent mathematics – depends on means, mainly philosophical and semiotic, that have to be created first of all, and to be reflected from the perspectives of a multitude of diverse disciplines.
Editors and Affiliations
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Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Michael H.G. Hoffmann
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University of Bielefeld, Germany
Johannes Lenhard, Falk Seeger
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Activity and Sign
Book Subtitle: Grounding Mathematics Education
Editors: Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Johannes Lenhard, Falk Seeger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b105055
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-24269-9Published: 04 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3711-7Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-24270-5Published: 06 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 392
Topics: Mathematics Education, Philosophy, general, History of Science