Rethinking the mathematics curriculum / edited by Celia Hoyles, Candia Morgan and Geoffrey Woodhouse.

Outcome of a conference held at the Institute of Education, University of London in October, 1996. - p.ix.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Sect. 1. What Is Mathematics and What Is It For? Ch. 1. Being Mathematically Educated in the 21st Century: What Should It Mean? / Johnston Anderson. Ch. 2. Industrial Applied Mathematics Is Changing As Technology Advances: What Skills Does Mathematics Education Need to Provide? / Michael Clayton. Ch. 3. Following Mathematical Practices in Design-oriented Work / Rogers Hall. Ch. 4. Mathematizing in Practice / Celia Hoyles, Richard Noss and Stefano Pozzi. Ch. 5. Mathematics Provides Tools for Thinking and Communicating / Willibald Dorfler -- Sect. 2. Curriculum and Classrooms for the Future. Ch. 6. One Mathematics for All? / Margaret Brown. Ch. 7. General Mathematical Competence: A New Way of Describing and Assessing a Mathematics Curriculum / Julian Williams, Geoff Wake and Alan Jervis. Ch. 8. Maximizing Energy in the Learning of Mathematics / Gillian Hatch. Ch. 9. Modelling for the New Millennium / Carolyn English. Ch. 10. Mathematics and Scientific Literacy / Daniel Sandford Smith. Ch. 11. Mathematics Laboratories for Science Undergraduates / Richard Templer, David Klug and Ian Gould [and others]. Ch. 12. The Mathematics of Change and Variation from a Millennial Perspective: New Content, New Context / James J. Kaput and Jeremy Roschelle -- Sect. 3. Thinking about Change. Ch. 13. Fudge and Fiddlesticks: A Century After / H. Brian Griffiths. Ch. 14. Glimpses of the Past, Images of the Future: Moving from 20th to 21st Century Mathematics Education / William Higginson. Ch. 15. Training Today the Teacher of Tomorrow / Bernard Cornu. Ch. 16. Reconstructing Professional Judgment in Mathematics Education: From Good Practice to Warranted Practice / Kenneth Ruthven -- Sect. 4. Learning from the Pacific Rim. Ch. 17. New Goals and Directions for Mathematics Education in Korea / Hee-Chan Lew. Ch. 18. Exam Maths Re-examined / Fou-Lai Lin and Liang-Chi Tsao. Ch. 19. The Traditional Chinese Views of Mathematics and Education: Implications for Mathematics Education in the New Millennium / Frederick Leung.

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