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Volume 5 Number 1, 2010

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Research Papers
The Italian School of Algebraic Geometry and Mathematics Teaching: Methods, Teacher Training, and Curricular Reforms in the Early Twentieth Century
Livia Giacardi

Mathematics, Society, and Curricula in Nineteenth-Century England
Geoffrey Howson

Notes
Interview with Izaak Wirszup
David Lindsay Roberts

Discovering Our History: A Historical Investigation into Mathematics Education
Luciana Zuccheri and Verena Zudini

Review
Kinnosuke Ogura:
History of Mathematics Education, rev. by
Eizo Nagasaki


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Volume 4 Number 2, 2009

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Research Papers
The Notion of Magnitude in Teaching: The “New Elements” of Arnauld and His Inheritance
Evelyne Barbin

The Century when Mathematics Became for All
Hans Christian Hansen

Gender and Science: Greek Women and the History of Mathematics Education in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Polly Thanailaki

“A Border State”: A Historical Exploration of the Formative, Educational, and Professional Experiences of Black Mathematicians in the United States
Erica N. Walker

Notes
Interview with Jeremy Kilpatrick
David Lindsay Roberts

On-going Research in the History of Mathematics Education
Fulvia Furinghetti

The Legacy of David Bierens de Haan
Harm Jan Smid

Review
Angela Lynn Evans Walmsley:
A History of Mathematics Education during the Twentieth Century, 1800–2000, rev. by
ALEXANDER KARP


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Volume 4 Number 1, 2009

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Editorial Note
Gert Schubring

Guest Editorial
Renaud d’Enfert and Angel Ruiz

Research Papers
The School as “Laboratory”: Giovanni Vailati and the Project to Reform Mathematics Teaching in Italy
Livia Giacardi

Modern Mathematics in Brazil: The Promise of Democratic and Effective Teaching
Elisabete Zardo Búrigo

Two Mathematics Reforms in the Context of Twentieth Century France: Similarities and Differences
Hélène Gispert

Students’ Notebooks as a Source of Research on the History of Mathematics Education
Maria Célia Leme da Silva and Wagner Rodrigues Valente

Back to the Future: The Conservative Reform of Mathematics Education in the Soviet Union During the 1930s–1940s
Alexander Karp

Defining the Teachers’ Knowledge: A Discussion About Examinations for Primary and Secondary School Teachers in Brazil in the Nineteenth Century
Flávia Soares

Mental Arithmetic and Conceptual Understanding: The Pedagogical Struggle for the Deaf in the Late Nineteenth Century
Christopher A.N. Kurz

Review
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, David Lindsay Roberts:
Tools of American mathematics teaching, 1800–2000, rev. by
Gert Schubring

Notes
The School Mathematics Project: Its Early Years
Geoffrey Howson


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Volume 3 Number 2, 2008

Table of Contents

Editorial
Gert Schubring

Research Papers
The Origins and the Early History of ICMI
Gert Schubring

David Eugene Smith and the Founding of the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics
Eileen F. Donoghue

Mathematics Education in the ICMI Perspective
Fulvia Furinghetti

The “Jacob Method”: An Example of Application of Cognitive Theories in the Period of the Introduction of Calculus in Austrian Secondary Mathematics Instruction
Luciana Zuccheri and Verena Zudini

Case Study About How Bourbakism Became Implemented Via International Agencies in a Key Region of Brazil
Arlete de Jesus Brito

Societal Demands on the Profession of the Mathematics Teacher in Iceland in a Historical Context
Kristín Bjarnadóttir

The Development of Mathematics Education as a Scientific Discipline: Reflections from a German Perspective
Rolf Biehler and Andrea Peter-Koop

Mathematical Technologies as a Vehicle for Intuition and Experiment: A Foundational Theme of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, and a Continuing Preoccupation
Kenneth Ruthven

ICMI, the History of Mathematics, and the Future of Mathematics Education
Michael N. Fried

Review
Recurrent Issues Vying for Change: A review of Nathalie Sinclair’s The History of the Geometry Curriculum in the United States, rev. by PATRICIO HERBST


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Volume 3 Number 1, 2008

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Research Papers
Probability Topics Addressed in U.S. Middle-Grades Textbooks, 1957–2004
Dustin L. Jones

From The First Lithuanian Mathematical Textbooks To Scientific Research In Mathematics
Vidmantas Pekarskas

Euler’s Role in the Formation of Mathematical Education
T.S. Polyakova

Notes
Interview with Geoffrey Howson
Alexander Karp

Announcement
11th International Congress on Mathematical Education


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Volume 2 Number 2, 2007

Table of Contents

Editorial
Gert Schubring

Research Papers
The Numbers One and Zero in Northern European Textbooks
Kristín Bjarnadóttir

Axiomatics Between Hilbert and the New Math: Diverging Views on Mathematical Research and Their Consequences on Education
Leo Corry

Identity and Culture in Didactic Choices Made by Mathematics Teachers of the Trieste Section of “Mathesis” from 1918 to 1923
Luciana Zuccheri and Verena Zudini

Notes
Interview with Henry Pollak
Alexander Karp

Historical Document (1901)
David Eugene Smith (Translated by Eileen F. Donoghue)

Reviews
Karine Chemla, Guo Shuchun (Eds.): Les Neuf Chapitres, Le Classique mathématique de la Chine ancienne et ses commentaries, rev.
Alain Bernard

Renaud d´Enfert (Ed.): L´enseignement mathématique à l´école primaire de la Révolution à nos jours, rev.
Siegbert Schmidt

Hélène Gispert, Nicole Hulin, Marie-Claire Robic (Eds.): Science et enseignement: l'exemple de la grande réforme des programmes du lycée au tout début du XXe siècle, rev.
Gert Schubring


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Volume 2 Number 1, 2007

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Research Papers
Quarrels of a Marriage of Convenience: On the History of Mathematics Education for Engineers in Spain
Elena Ausejo
Memory and Mathematics in the Tamil Tinnai Schools of South India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
D. Senthil Babu
Exams in Algebra in Russia: Toward a History of High Stakes Testing
Alexander Karp

Reviews

Menso Folkerts, The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe: The Arabs, Euclid, Regiomontanus (Variorum collected studies series). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co, 2006.
Barnabas Hughes
Frederick K.S. Leung,. et al. (eds.), Mathematics education in different cultural traditions: a comparative study of East Asia and the West; the 13th ICMI study. New York: Springer, 2006
Gert Schubring
Livia Giacardi (ed.), Da Casati a Gentile; momenti di storia dell'ínsegnamento secondario della matematica in Italia [Moments in the history of secondary school mathematics teaching in Italy]. Sarzana (La Spezia): Agorà Publ., 2006.
Gert Schubring

Notes

Recent Journal Publications on the History of Mathematics Education

Announcement of a symposium: “The First Century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (1908–2008): Reflecting and Shaping the World of Mathematics Education”

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Volume 1 Number 1, 2006

Table of Contents

Editorial
Gert Schubring

Research Papers
Competing Arguments for the Geometry Course: Why Were American High School Students Supposed to Study Geometry in the Twentieth Century?
Gloriana González and Patricio G. Herbst
The Role of Projective Geometry in Italian Education and Institutions at the End of the 19th Century
Marta Menghini
The Theorem of Thales: A Study of the Naming of Theorems in School Geometry Textbooks
Dimitris Patsopoulos and Tasos Patronis
A Turning Point in Secondary School Mathematics in Brazil: Euclides Roxo and the Mathematics Curricular Reforms of 1931 and 1942
João Pitombeira de Carvalho

Notes
Sources for the History of Mathematics Education in Brazil
Gert Schubring

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