Developments in Mathematical Education: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Mathematical Education

ICME-2    1972      Exeter (UK)

A. G. Howson

Cambridge University Press | 1973 | 328 páginas | rar - pdf | 15,7 Mb

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Contents
A message from H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (p. v )
Editor's Acknowledgements (p. ix) 

Part I, A Congress Survey (p. 4) 
This chapter contains a very detailed analysis, presumably from Howson, of the planning, choices, and content of the Congress. It is divides into four parts:

1. Preliminaries and planning
2. The programme
3. The congress in action
4. The work of congress
5. The congress in retrospect

Part II The invited papers 
GORGE PÒLYA, As I read them (p. 77) 
JEAN PIAGET, Comments on mathematical education (p. 79) 
SIR JAMES LIGHTHILL, The Presidential Address ( p. 88) 
HANS FREUDENTHAL, What groups mean in mathematics and what they should mean in mathematics education (p. 101) 
DAVID HAWKINS, Nature, man and mathematics (p. 115) 
EDMUND LEACH, Some anthropological observations on number, time and common-sense (p. 136) 
HUGH PHILP, Mathematical education in developing countries - some problems of teaching and learning(p. 154) 
S. L. SOBOLEV, Some questions of mathematical education in the USSR (p. 181) 
RENÉ THOM, Modern mathematics: does it exist? (p. 194)

Part III A selection of congress papers 
E. BIGGS, Investigation and problem-solving in mathematical education (p. 213) 
E. FISCHBEIN, Intuition, structure and heuristic methods in the teaching of mathematics (p. 222) 
A. J. MALPAS, Mathematics and science in the secondary school (p. 233) 
B. E. MESERVE, Geometry as a gateway to mathematics (p. 241) 
J. B. MORGAN, The International Baccalaureate (p. 254) 
T. SHIBATA, The role of axioms in contemporary mathematics and in mathematical education (p. 262) 
M. SIME, Implications of the work of Piaget in the training of students to teach primary mathematics (p. 272) 
H. WHITNEY, Are we off the track in teaching mathematical concepts? (p. 283) 

Appendices

1. The congress committees and officers (p. 299)
2. The working groups (p. 300)
3. ICMI and congress recommendations (p. 305)
4. Films and video tapes on mathematics and its teaching (p. 307)

Index (p. 315)