Table of Contents

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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