Definition
In mathematics education, there exists a tradition of research giving a central role to the design of teaching sessions and their experimentation in classrooms. Didactical engineering, which emerged in the early 1980s and continuously developed since that time, is an important form taken by this tradition. In the educational community, it mainly denotes today a research methodology based on the controlled design and experimentation of teaching sequences and adopting an internal mode of validation based on the comparison between the a priori and a posteriori analyses of these. However, since its emergence, the expression didactical engineering has also been used for denoting development activities, referring to the design of educational resources based on research results or constructions and to the work of didactical engineers.
History
From its emergence as an academic field of study, mathematics education has been associated with the design and experimentation of innovative...
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Artigue, M. (2020). Didactic Engineering in Mathematics Education. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_44
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