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Mathematics Education and the Information Society

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Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry

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Starting point for this chapter is that societal changes ask for adaptations of a foundational mathematics curriculum for all. This chapter especially looks at the effects of information technology and globalization on the job market and employability with an eye on its consequences for the goals of mathematics education. It shows that next to the need for a change toward more problem solving and interaction, changes in the content of the curriculum will be needed. It is argued that the latter may concern topics such as, measurement, variability, and reasoning with (models of) relations between variables. In addition it is shown that information technology may offer the means to tailor education toward these goals.

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    The extent to which outsourcing is a significant factor will vary in other countries; we do assume however that the transfer of jobs to computers will be a universal phenomenon.

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  1. Eindhoven School of Education, Eindhoven University, P. O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Koeno Gravemeijer

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  1. Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marn, Créteil Cedex, Val-de-Marne, France

    Alain Damlamian

  2. Universidade de Lisboa/CMAF-FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Francisco Rodrigues

  3. Inst. Didaktik der Mathematik, Universität Gießen FB 12 Mathematik, Gießen, Germany

    Rudolf Sträßer

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Gravemeijer, K. (2013). Mathematics Education and the Information Society. In: Damlamian, A., Rodrigues, J., Sträßer, R. (eds) Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry. New ICMI Study Series, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02270-3_28

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