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Mills, Terence; Sacrez, Aimé – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2020
Thomas Kuhn (1962/2012) introduced the term "paradigm shift" to the scientific literature to describe how knowledge in science develops. The aims of this article are to identify paradigm shifts, or revolutions, that have occurred in mathematics, and to discuss their relevance to teaching mathematics in schools. The authors argue that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Cultural Differences, Models, Change
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Ayalon, Michal; Wilkie, Karina – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2020
Researching students' responses to tasks at different year levels and in varied curriculum contexts can provide insights that relate their understandings to prior learning experiences and teaching approaches. In this article, we discuss evidence of students from three curriculum contexts (English, Australian, and Israeli) (n = 350) ways of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematical Logic