Publicaties

In many countries, secondary school students learn about mathematical applications and modelling through examples and contexts exclusively taken from physics or other natural sciences. However, there are good reasons to argue in favour of changing this situation and, in particular, to more intensively include applications from economics, business, or finance in secondary school mathematics. In order to identify the role of such applications in ...

In 1952, a Belgian primary school teacher, Georges Cuisenaire, published Les nombres en couleurs, a booklet in which the author describes his invention and explains a corresponding method for teaching elementary arithmetic. Cuisenaire materialized the numbers from one to ten by means of rods of corresponding lengths and in different colours. The rods provided a concrete tool for exploring and gaining insight in basic concepts and skills, such as ...

Willy Servais and Tamás Varga had a major influence on the development of mathematics education during the 1960s and 1970s, both in their home countries and internationally. In 1971 they jointly published Teaching School Mathematics–A Unesco Source Book, a review of curriculum reforms that were under way in different parts of the world. The book, presenting several modern syllabuses as well as examples of classroom techniques and segments of ...