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Status of Mathematics Teachers

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I would like to tell you what my candidate is for the problem of mathematics education. The problem of mathematics education is: Why is it necessary to have mathematics education? Just why is it necessary to teach children mathematics? I am not questioning the need to know mathematics. Absolutely not; that is obvious to me. I am questioning why we need to teach mathematics. That is a fundamental thing that we don’t reflect on enough.

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  1. Davis, Robert B., et al. An Analysis of Mathematics Education in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Columbus, Ohio: ERIC, 1979.

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  1. Donald J. Albers
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  1. Department of Mathematics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 55057, USA

    Lynn Arthur Steen

  2. Mathematics Department, Menlo College, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA

    Donald J. Albers

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Albers, D.J. (1981). Status of Mathematics Teachers. In: Steen, L.A., Albers, D.J. (eds) Teaching Teachers, Teaching Students. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0427-0_18

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