Overview
- Highlights the key players of the past century of ICMI history
- Emphasizes and explores the relationship between mathematicians and mathematics educators
- Presents the history of ICMI from a compelling point-of-view to attract a diversity of readers
Part of the book series: International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching (ISHMT)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI)
- History of ICMI
- Emergence of mathematics education as a discipline
- Important figures in ICMI history
- International cooperation and solidarity
- Relationships between industrialized and developing countries
- Mathematics education and educators
- Communities of mathematicians
About this book
The book presents the history of ICMI trough a prosopographical approach. In other words, it pays a lot of attention to the actors of the International movement. The portraits of the members of the ICMI Central Committees (1908-1936) and ICMI Executive Committees (1952-2008), and other eminent figures in ICMI history, who have passed away in the first 100 years of its life, are the guiding thread of the volume. Each portrait includes:
· Biographical information
· An outline of the various contributions made by the individual in question to the study of problems pertaining to mathematics teaching/education
· Primary bibliography
· Secondary with particular attention to the publications concerning the teaching of mathematics
· Images: photos, book frontispieces, relevant manuscripts
The authors of the portraits (30 altogether) are researchers in the history of mathematics, mathematics, and mathematics education. The focus on the officer’s role within ICMI and on his/her contributions to mathematics education, make the portraits different from usual biographies. In particular, since most officers were active mathematicians, the portraits shed light on aspects of their lesser-known activity. Connecting chapters place the action of these figures in the historical context and in the different phases of ICMI history.Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fulvia Furinghetti is a retired professor of mathematics education at the University of Genoa (Italy). Her research concerns mathematics education (computer science in mathematics teaching, proof, beliefs, teacher education, history in mathematics teaching, and public image of mathematics) and the history of mathematics education. She was one of the organizers of the celebrations of the Centenary of the journal L’Enseignement Mathématique in 2000 and the Centenary of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) in 2008. In both cases, she was one of the editors of the proceedings. With Livia Giacardi, she has developed a website on the history of the first hundred years of ICMI. In 2001-2004 she chaired the International Study Group on History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM) affiliated to ICMI.
Livia Giacardi is a full professor of History of Mathematics at the University of Turin. Her research focuses on the history of mathematics – in particular on the history of geometry in Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries – and on the history of mathematics education. She has been the Secretary of the Italian Society for the History of Mathematics (2000-2008), and a member of the Council (2000-2017); a member of the Italian Commission for Mathematics Teaching (2003-2012); and a member of the IPC of the Symposium on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of ICMI (2008) and was one of the editors of the proceedings. With Fulvia Furinghetti, she has developed a website on the history of the first hundred years of ICMI.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908-2008: People, Events, and Challenges in Mathematics Education
Editors: Fulvia Furinghetti, Livia Giacardi
Series Title: International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04313-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04312-3Published: 31 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04315-4Published: 31 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04313-0Published: 30 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-8022
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8030
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 735
Number of Illustrations: 76 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematics Education, History of Mathematical Sciences, History of Education, Social History