Introduction
This entry attempts to trace the history of mathematics education, combining a chronological approach with an analysis of separate aspects of this history. We will discuss the role of mathematics education as a part of professional and general education, primary mathematics education, and teaching in secondary schools; we will pay attention to the formation and transformation of curricula and, consequently, of the role, form, and content of textbooks, as well as the formation of the profession of the mathematics teacher. While discussing these aspects, we regard history as a unified process, which includes all regions and peoples of the world, which does not mean, of course, that everything in history took place in the same way or at the same time (the penultimate section of the entry sums up this approach). In conclusion, we address the development of research in the history of mathematics education.
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Schubring, G., Karp, A.P. (2020). History of Mathematics Teaching and Learning. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_70
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