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The present volume addresses some valuable themes relevant to the scholarly contributions of Ted Eisenberg to the teaching, learning, and doing of mathematics. In this reflective postscript, I raise some issues associated with the identity of, and the tension between, the academic fields of mathematics and mathematics education. I argue that, far from having drifted apart, those fields continue to make productive contact with and complement one another. Their common preoccupation with mathematics as it is created through teaching keeps them together. The challenge to mathematicians and mathematics educators is to make fertile the common ground they share.
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Kilpatrick, J. (2014). We Must Cultivate Our Common Ground. In: Fried, M., Dreyfus, T. (eds) Mathematics & Mathematics Education: Searching for Common Ground. Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7473-5_19
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