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Amadeo, Marcello – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to use historical textbooks to explore the number line, a mathematical object common to our time, contextualizing its use during its initial development period in the seventeenth century until its current use as in the nineteenth century. Relevant analytic geometry textbooks are explored, mainly from France and from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Textbooks, Educational History, Geometry
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Schubring, Gert – Research in Mathematics Education, 2012
PME, the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, was founded in 1976, at the "Third International Congress on Mathematical Education" in Karlsruhe, organised by the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction (ICMI). While PME is thus beyond coming of age and is reflecting its further orientation--due to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Mathematics, Mathematics Education