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Balancing Complex Human Worlds: Mathematics Education as an Emergent Discipline in its own Right

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Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity

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I taught a course on informal geometry — a content course — to students at The Florida State University who are prospective high school mathematics teachers. In the first week I asked them to bring or wear to the next class, something which had geometry in it, and to come to class prepared to tell why they had chosen that particular item and to talk about its geometry.

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    Norma C. Presmeg

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Presmeg, N.C. (1998). Balancing Complex Human Worlds: Mathematics Education as an Emergent Discipline in its own Right. In: Sierpinska, A., Kilpatrick, J. (eds) Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity. New ICMI Studies Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5470-3_4

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