Teaching of mathematics

The teaching of mathematics indicates the study of the method S and the practical of the Mathématiques. This Enseignement was the subject of many debates in the modern societies.

History

The elementary mathematical belong to the school programs since the older civilizations, of which the ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and the old Egypt. In the majority of the cases, teaching was reserved for the Homme S, with a sufficiently high social position. In the division of Plato of arts in trivium and Quadrivium, the quadrivium included the mathematical fields the Arithmétique and the Géométrie. This division found in the traditional education developed in the medieval Europe. The teaching of mathematics rested mainly on the Éléments of Euclide.

In the Rebirth, the academic statute of mathematics declined because they were generally associated with the trade. Mathematics continued to be taught European Universities, but was regarded as a matter lower than the Métaphysique, the Philosophie, etc

Objectives

According to the times, the places, and the cultures, the education of mathematics was seen laid down different objectives, of which:

  • the teaching of the Bases of calculation;

  • the teaching of practical mathematics: the Arithmetic and the plane Geometry;
  • the teaching of the abstract mathematical concepts like the Together S and the functions, starting from a certain age;
  • the teaching of specific fields, like the Euclidean Geometry, example of an axiomatic system;
  • Possibly, within the framework of options, the teaching of advanced subjects for the pupils finding in mathematics their vocations;
  • the teaching of heuristic logic and other strategies to solve problems not-creatures of habit.
The methods of the teaching of mathematics change according to the objectives to reach.

Standards

Despite everything, at any time, standards of teaching of mathematics were locally established by institutions or groups of teachers, according to the level that it seemed to them suitable and realistic to wait of a pupil.

Today, in the Western companies, these standards are discussed with the national regional scales or . These standards can be the subject of an official publication:

  • the National Curriculum vitae for England in England.
  • the Standard Principles and for School Mathematics with the the United States.
  • the B.O. (Official Bulletin) in France.
  • It??? with the Quebec.

Control knowledge

The Contrôle of knowledge in mathematics rests primarily classically on:

  • Of the exercises creatures of habit allowing the pupil to assimilate all or part of the course, methods of reasoning or standard techniques of resolution;
  • Of the problems , primarily of the exercises a sufficient length, possibly with several parts.
On a higher level, the problems indicate a whole of questions on a set of themes, aiming for example to the Démonstration and the illustration of a result that a pupil is not judicious to know in advance.

Methods of teaching

  • traditional education

  • modern Mathematical
  • the Method of Moore
  • Mathematical antiracists
  • …

Teachers and mathematics professors

Here a list of people having taught mathematics without to be known for that:

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