This paper is about the role and the potential of the history of mathematics in mathematics education. We report a discussion that we had about theoretical issues in this context, particularly about the notion of Otherness as developed by the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. The focus is on the reading of historical texts, both in the context…

Within mathematics education, issues relating to equity and inclusion of diverse voices is receiving increasing attention. We argue that broadening the perspectives of the wider research community can only be achieved by providing opportunities for the stories of marginalised communities to be shared. In this article, we draw on our experiences,…

This comment on Gascón & Nicolás (2017) explores relationships between mathematics education research and conceptualizations of time. Using Fabian's critique of temporal perspectives in anthropological research (1983) and Lemke's framework of timescales (2000), we consider ways in which implicit attitudes towards time in research can position…

In this paper, I wish to reply to the questions posed by Gascón & Nicolás (2017) about the (possibly) prescriptive nature of the research results in didactics of mathematics: To what extent, how, under which conditions can (or must), didactics set value judgments and normative prescriptions in order to provide criteria about how to organize…

This is a response to the collection of communications in 37(1), two of which cited Vince and Rudolf's article in 35(3). Vince and Rudolf have have been joined here by Claire Margolinas in order to provide a complementary (French) perspective to their Australian and German outlooks on this topic. The comments of the three of us can be grouped into…

In this article, I present the notion of a set-oriented perspective for solving counting problems that emerged during task-based interviews with postsecondary students. Framing the findings within Harel's "ways of thinking", I argue that students may benefit from this perspective, in which they view attending to sets of outcomes as…

In this paper I argue my opposition to the consensus which has dominated the literature that young children view shapes as a whole and pay no attention to shape structure and that geometrical thinking can be described through a hierarchical model formed by levels. This consensus is linked to van Hiele's weok by van Hiele-based research. In the…

I argue that until ethnomathematical frameworks are explicitly used to investigate the specific mathematical practices in networks of powerful elites the term will continue to index that which is Other to "traditional" mathematics and run a risk of desubstantialization. I suggest that the field ally itself with disciplines and perspectives in…