The Sociology, Psychology, and Teaching of Mathematics

Lars Gårding
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Lars Gårding: Mat. Inst.

Chapter 12 in Encounter with Mathematics, 1977, pp 253-261 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract To round off things we shall now give a short analysis of the role of mathematics in society. It starts with biographies of three persons or rather collectives A, B, and C, representing, in order, the public, the users of mathematics, and the professional mathematicians. In a section about psychology A meets C and C has a crisis. Then we are told how C fared when he wanted to reform the teaching of mathematics. The chapter ends with a morality.

Keywords: Hopeless Theoretician; Professional Mathematician; Infinitesimal Calculus; Fertile Valley; Complicated Mathematical Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-9641-7_12

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