Developing new notations for a learnable mathematics in the computational era
Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education, Lawrence Erlbaum, London, (2002)Abstract
Not for the first time we are at a turning point in intellectual history. The
appearances of new computational forms and literacies are pervading the social
and economic lives of individuals and nations alike. Yet nowhere is this upheaval
correspondingly represented in educational systems, in classrooms, or in school
curricula. As far as mathematics is concerned, the massive changes to
mathematics that characterize the late twentieth century—in terms of the way it is
done, and what counts as mathematics—are almost invisible in the classrooms of
our schools and, to only a slightly lesser extent, our universities.