Theory and Practice: A History of Two Centuries of Dutch Mathematics Education

by Harm Jan Smid

This book describes and analyses the history of Dutch mathematics education from the point of view of the changing motivations behind the teaching of mathematics over a 200 year period. During the course of the 19th century, mathematics in the Netherlands developed from a topic for practitioners into a school topic that was taught to almost all pupils of secondary education. As mathematics teaching gradually lost its practical orientation and became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031218728
• ISBN13: 9783031218729
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"