Add to ORKGThe Math Wars have been raging since the 1990's in the United States, where the world of mathematics education has become polarised into two camps: the reformers and the traditionalists. In this article I explore the background to the Math Wars, with specific reference to conflicting ideologies of mathematics education. I draw parallels with similar, albeit less public, tensions and power struggles amongst policy makers and practitioners in England. I conclude by highlighting the danger of allowing increasing levels of politicisation of the education agenda to subsume the need for reform of the curriculum highlighted by the mathematics education community
especially difficult?1 (b) What is a good way to amel-iorate these difficulties? (c) Would the new ...
To characterize the actual political and social situation in mathematics education around the world,...
gone two major waves of attempted reform: the new math movement of the 1950s through the early 1970s...
The Math Wars have been raging since the 1990's in the United States, where the world of mathematics...
There is an ongoing battle in mathematics education, a battle sometimes so fierce that some people c...
Abstract: Throughout the duration of what has been termed the “math wars”, many overly-generalized s...
In this article, Alan Schoenfeld presents his insightful commentary on a âproductive, middle-groundâ...
Throughout the duration of what has been termed the “math wars”, many overlygeneralized statements b...
This article presents a historical review of mathematics education since the late 1950s in the Unite...
This article presents a historical review of mathematics education since the late 1950s in the Unite...
This paper uses a textual analysis of two documents prepared by the mathematics community and the ma...
In this paper, I discuss some links between mathematics education and democracy, what these links co...
Mathematics education has been an issue of sometimes hot debate over the past decade. In fact, these...
Math education in the United States remains resistant to systemic change, and our country pays the p...
In this article, we argue that the debates about mathematics education that have arisen in the Unite...
especially difficult?1 (b) What is a good way to amel-iorate these difficulties? (c) Would the new ...
To characterize the actual political and social situation in mathematics education around the world,...
gone two major waves of attempted reform: the new math movement of the 1950s through the early 1970s...
The Math Wars have been raging since the 1990's in the United States, where the world of mathematics...
There is an ongoing battle in mathematics education, a battle sometimes so fierce that some people c...
Abstract: Throughout the duration of what has been termed the “math wars”, many overly-generalized s...
In this article, Alan Schoenfeld presents his insightful commentary on a âproductive, middle-groundâ...
Throughout the duration of what has been termed the “math wars”, many overlygeneralized statements b...
This article presents a historical review of mathematics education since the late 1950s in the Unite...
This article presents a historical review of mathematics education since the late 1950s in the Unite...
This paper uses a textual analysis of two documents prepared by the mathematics community and the ma...
In this paper, I discuss some links between mathematics education and democracy, what these links co...
Mathematics education has been an issue of sometimes hot debate over the past decade. In fact, these...
Math education in the United States remains resistant to systemic change, and our country pays the p...
In this article, we argue that the debates about mathematics education that have arisen in the Unite...
especially difficult?1 (b) What is a good way to amel-iorate these difficulties? (c) Would the new ...
To characterize the actual political and social situation in mathematics education around the world,...
gone two major waves of attempted reform: the new math movement of the 1950s through the early 1970s...