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Research in mathematics education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Geoffrey Howson
Geoffrey Howson*
Affiliation:
Centre for Mathematics Education, University of Southampton S09 5NH
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In 1906 the editor of this journal made a plea for more articles on “the purely pedagogic side of mathematics”. As he emphasised: “the object of the Gazette is to improve the teaching of our subject in our schools”. Since then such articles have appeared with varying frequency. What rarely appears is any article specifically devoted to research in mathematics education. The divorce between mathematicians and researchers in mathematics education, often made worse by the former’s distrust of the latter, would seem doubly unfortunate. In this article, based on part of a talk given in Madrid, I wish to look briefly at how research in mathematics education developed and at some of the difficulties associated with it.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 72 , Issue 462 , December 1988 , pp. 265 - 271
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1988

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