Overview
- Provides the only comprehensive overview of the history of Dutch mathematics education
- Presents the history of Dutch mathematics education in an accessible and engaging way
- Analyses the impact of the ‘Realistic Mathematics Education’ movement in the Netherlands
Part of the book series: International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching (ISHMT)
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About this book
This book describes and analyses the history of Dutch mathematics education from the point of view of the changing motivations behind the teaching of mathematics over a 200 year period. During the course of the 19th century, mathematics in the Netherlands developed from a topic for practitioners into a school topic that was taught to almost all pupils of secondary education. As mathematics teaching gradually lost its practical orientation and became more and more motivated on the basis of its supposed formative value, the HBS (Hogere Burgerschool), the Dutch variant of the German Realschule, became the dominant school of thought for mathematics pedagogy. This book examines the gradual development of the field, culminating in the country-wide adoption of Realistic Mathematics Education as the new method of mathematics teaching.
This book is important for anyone who is interested in the history of mathematics education. It provides an interesting perspective on the development of mathematics education in a country that, in many aspects, went its own way.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
He began teaching mathematics at a school for secondary education in Leiden in 1966. In 1975, he was appointed as lecturer in mathematics and mathematics education at a teacher training College in Delft. In 1981, he became assistant professor, later associate professor, in mathematics and mathematics education at the Delft University of Technology. At first he was engaged in research in the achievements of foreign students in Delft and in Computer Assisted Learning. Later, his focus was on the history of mathematics education. He earned his PhD in 1997 with a thesis on the history of Dutch mathematics education in the first half of the 19th century. After his retirement in 2007, he remained active in this field. In 2008, he was awarded with a prize by the Leiden Historical Society for his article on M.I.S. Bevel, a mathematics teacher in Leiden in the first decades of the 19th century. He also wrote the jubilee book on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the Dutch Association of Teachers of Mathematics in 2015. In total, his publication list counts more than 90 items.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theory and Practice
Book Subtitle: A History of Two Centuries of Dutch Mathematics Education
Authors: Harm Jan Smid
Series Title: International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21873-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21872-9Published: 18 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21875-0Published: 18 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21873-6Published: 16 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-8022
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8030
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 313
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematics Education, History of Education, History of Mathematical Sciences