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Monographie no. 39

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One Hundred Years of L’Enseignement Mathématique:
Moments of Mathematics Education in the Twentieth Century

(ISBN 2-940264-06-6)

Proceedings of the EM-ICMI Symposium (Geneva, 20-22 October 2000)
edited by D. Coray, F. Furinghetti, H. Gispert, B.R. Hodgson, G. Schubring
softbound; 336 pages, 2003; 68 CHF

 

It was in 1899 that Henri Fehr (Geneva) and Charles-Ange Laisant (Paris) founded the international journal L'Enseignement Mathématique. The form that the celebratory symposium took was a historical survey of developments in mathematics education at key periods in the 20th century followed by a short discussion of the manner in which mathematics education might meet the demands of societies today and in the near future.

The symposium demonstrated how over the century the emphasis shifted from discussions of the mathematics to be taught to an élite, to the needs of a wider range of students and of society. It reminded us of the way in which two generations had tried to make enormous changes in the content of school mathematics and methods of teaching it. It gave us an opportunity to see where these earlier efforts had not been wholly successful and challenged us to determine why. With such an understanding we should be better equipped to tackle both the problems that now face us and those which will arise in the future.

See also the review by Luis Radford in Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 4:4 (2004), 551-556.

 

Table des matières

Introduction: Daniel Coray - Bernard R. Hodgson

L'Enseignement Mathématique: birth and stakes

  • Fulvia Furinghetti : Mathematical instruction in an international perspective: the contribution of the journal L'Enseignement Mathématique
  • Gert Schubring : L'Enseignement Mathématique and the first International Commission (IMUK): the emergence of international communication and cooperation
  • Gila Hanna : Journals of mathematics education, 1900-2000
  • Reaction : Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Geometry

  • Rudolph Bkouche : La géométrie dans les premières années de la revue L'Enseignement Mathématique
  • Geoffrey Howson : Geometry: 1950-70
  • Colette Laborde : Géométrie - Période 2000 et après
  • Reaction : Nicolas Rouche

Analysis

  • Jean-Pierre Kahane : L'enseignement du calcul différentiel et intégral au début du vingtième siècle
  • Man-Keung Siu : Learning and teaching of analysis in the mid twentieth century: a semi-personal observation
  • Lynn Steen : Analysis 2000: challenges and opportunities

Reaction: Michèle Artigue

Applications of mathematics: mathematics as a service subject

  • Philippe Nabonnand : Les débats autour des applications des mathématiques dans les réformes de l'enseignement secondaire au début du vingtième siècle
  • Hélène Gispert : Applications: les mathématiques comme discipline de service dans les années 1950-1960
  • Mogens Niss : Applications of mathematics '2000'
  • Reaction: Gerhard Wanner

Perspectives for mathematics education

  • Ubiratan D'Ambrosio : Stakes in mathematics education for the societies of today and tomorrow
  • Jeremy Kilpatrick : Scientific solidarity today and tomorrow
  • Reaction : Hyman Bass