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The school is the institution conceived to communicate, re-produce, and appropriate the knowledge that is socially important. The curriculum is the basic instrument to reach this goal. Of course, socially important depends on a long list of factors that includes political, cultural and historical factors as well. Mathematics education has been an important institutional goal. The centrality of this goal has been captured in the field of research we call math education.
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Moreno-Armella, L. (2010). Preface to Part XI. In: Sriraman, B., English, L. (eds) Theories of Mathematics Education. Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00742-2_33
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