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The emergence of women on the international stage of mathematics education
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In this article, I consider the history of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) from its inception until the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) held in 1969. In this period, mathematics education developed as a scientific discipline. My aim is to study the presence and the contribution of women (if any) in this development. ICMI was founded in 1908, but my history starts before then, at the end of the nineteenth century, when the process of internationalization of mathematics began, thanks to the first International Congress of Mathematicians. Already in those years, the need for internationalizing the debate on mathematics teaching was spreading throughout the mathematical community. I use as my main sources of information the didactics sections in the proceedings of the International Congresses of Mathematicians and the proceedings of the first ICME. The data collected are complemented with information from the editorial board of two journals that for different reasons are linked to ICMI: L’Enseignement Mathématique and Educational Studies in Mathematics. In particular, as a result of my analyses, I have identified four women who may be considered as pioneer women in mathematics education. Some biographical notes on their professional life are included in the paper
Teacher education through the history of mathematics
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In this paper I consider the problem of designing strategies for teacher education programs that may promote an aware style of teaching. Among the various elements to be considered I focus on the need to address prospective teachers’ belief that they must reproduce the style of mathematics teaching seen in their school days. Towards this aim, I argue that the prospective teachers need a context allowing them to look at the topics they will teach in a different manner. This context may be provided by the history of mathematics. In this paper I shall discuss how history affected the construction of teaching sequences on algebra during the activities of the ‘laboratory of mathematics education’ carried out in a 2 year education program for prospective teachers. The conditions of the
experiment, notably the fact that our prospective teachers had not had specific preparation in the history of mathematics, allow us to outline opportunities and caveats of the use of history in teacher education
Riflessione e azione nella formazione degli insegnanti
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In questo articolo espongo una parte dell’itinerario didattico sull’insegnamento dell’algebra da me sviluppato nel corso di Didattica della Matematica per studenti della Laurea Specialistica in Matematica e, in passato, per studenti SSIS.
Nella prima parte delineo la mia filosofia di lavoro, che consiste nel tenere conto delle convinzioni dei futuri insegnanti per abituarli a fare scelte personali e consapevoli, e, in particolare, evitare che, una volta entrati in classe, riproducano acriticamente ciò che è stato loro insegnato. Nella seconda parte riporto alcune riflessioni che illustrano come tratto il passaggio dall’aritmetica all’algebra discutendo i processi risolutivi di alcuni problemi verbali.
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In this paper I present a teaching sequence developed in the course Didattica della Matematica addressed to prospective secondary teachers. My aim is to make them reflective practitioners, aware and responsible of their choices. To pursue my objectives I pay a particular attention to the role of their beliefs.
As an example of my way of working I present some activities concerning the passage from arithmetic to algebra. I discuss this topic by analyzing the solving process of word problems
1908-2008: ICMI Portrait Gallery of officers and eminent figures
No full textThe article "Furinghetti, F. (2015). 1908-2008: ICMI Portrait Gallery of officers and eminent figures. International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education, 10(2), 54-59" describes the Section entitled ". Portrait gallery" in the website dedicated to the history of the first 100 years of ICMI (authors: Fulvia Furinghetti and Livia Giacardi). The article contains the list of the mathematicians mentioned in the Section
History, research and teaching mathematics: Case studies for linking different domains education
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No full textMathematics education and ICMI in the proceedings of the International Congresses of Mathematicians
No full textMatematici e insegnamento della matematica a livello pre-universitario: Enrico Bompiani terzo presidente della CIIM
No full textL'articolo inizia con alcune brevi note sulla vita del matematico Enrico Bompiani (Roma, 1889-1975), sulla sua produzione scientifico e sul suo ruolo nella comunità scientifica internazionale.La parte caratterizzante è costituita da un'analisi dell'azione di Bompiani nel campo dell'educazione matematica, sia dal punto di vista organizzativo/istituzionale, sia dal punto di vista della discussione dei contenuti matematici. Sono precisati e completati alcuni riferimenti bibliografici riguardanti la produzione dell'autore, già presenti in altre pubblicazioni su Bompiani
Quattro anni di impegno internazionale su storia e didattica: bilanci e prospettive
No full textHaving served for four years (2000-2004) as a chairperson of the Study Group HPM (The international study group on the relations between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics) I collected a good amount of information on the role of the history of mathematics in mathematics education. As a general view I may single out two main streams in the interpretation of this role: (A) History for reflecting on the nature of mathematics as a socio-cultural process, (B) History to construct mathematical knowledge.
Stream (A) includes the idea of history as a means to humanize mathematics and to promote mathematics in the classroom. Stream (B) concerns the core of the problems related to teaching/learning mathematics. Mathematics education helps to outline reasons why researchers and practitioners think that history is a useful tool in teaching and learning
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