European mathematics

European Research in Mathematics Education

This paper is concerned with the role of language in advanced mathematical thinking. It is argued that some behaviors may arise from the application to mathematical language of some conventions of ordinary language. Grice’s Cooperative Principle (CP) is introduced in order to explain some episodes that are not easily accounted for in terms of semantics only. Some examples of (undue) application...

European Mathematics Curricula and Classroom Practices

European Research in Mathematics Education I.II

In this theoretical paper figurative aspects of algebraic symbolism are discussed and related to the theory of image schemata, opening up for one way of understanding the development of symbol sense in mathematics. The ideas of mathematical forms (referring to spatial characteristics of mathematical formulas), and form operations, are at the core of this analysis.

European Research in Mathematics Education I.II

This paper represents the results of special courses given to undergraduate teacher students of «mathematics-computer science» speciality. A general idea that integrated these courses, consist in the training of future teachers for understanding the possibilities and limits of the use of technologies (systems like DERIVE and Cabri-geometre) for support of pedagogical control of learners’ cognit...

CAS for Mathematics E - Learning - a European Perspective

We report on activities and progress in a European (Comenius 2.1) project "LTMLearning Tools for Mathematics" that creates multilingual learning units on the basis of Mathematica and M@th Desktop. A customized user-interface based on palettes is optimized for use in class, and notebooks provide associated math content with a strong emphasis on visualization. The multilingual nature of the learn...