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New Math, an international movement?

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The New Math Reform of the 1960s is commonly regarded as an international movement, in which common arguments bound together the participants of the reform. However, some authors have challenged this view, arguing instead for parallel reform movements, linked to different national school systems and different background motives. In this paper, we review some of the arguments proposed and trace the main currents which defined the New Math in Europe and the US. We conclude that European debates were mainly related to a structural Bourbakist view on mathematics. The American reform movement was stronger rooted in socio-economic and political motives and from the start driven by the Government. The European and American points of view, which originated largely independent from each other, briefly came together at the Royaumont Seminar (1959) and subsequent OECD conferences, but remained quite unrelated.
Boek: Proceedings of the Eighth European Summer University on History and Epistemology in Mathematics Education (ESU 8)
Pagina's: 801 - 812
ISBN:978-82-8364-212-4
Jaar van publicatie:2019
Toegankelijkheid:Closed