Introduction
Teachers manage didactical situations that create and exploit mathematical situations where practices are exercised and students’ mathematical knowledge is developed. The study of the didactical contract concerns the compatibility on this precise subject of the aspirations and requirements of the students, the teachers, the parents, and the society.
Definition
A “didactical contract” is an interpretation of the commitments, the expectations, the beliefs, the means, the results, and the penalties envisaged by one of the protagonists of a didactical situation (student, teacher, parents, society) for him- or herself and for each of the others, à propos of the mathematical knowledge being taught (Brousseau and Otte 1989; Brousseau 1997). The objective of these interpretations is to account for the actions and reactions of the partners in a didactical situation.
The didactical contract can be broken down into two parts: a contract of devolution – the teacher organizes the...
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Brousseau, G., Sarrazy, B., Novotná, J. (2020). Didactic Contract in Mathematics Education. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_46
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