Activity and Sign : Grounding Mathematics Education

Activity and Sign : Grounding Mathematics Education

Author
Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Johannes Lenhard, Falk Seeger
Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Social Science

This volume provides new sources of knowledge based on Michael Otte’s fundamental insight that understanding the problems of mathematics education – how to teach, how to learn, how to communicate, how to do, and how to represent mathematics – depends on means, mainly philosophical and semiotic, that have to be created first of all, and to be reflected from the perspectives of a multitude of diverse disciplines.


Keywords: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Immanuel / Kant / Epistemology / Knowledge / Mathematics education / Philosophy / Truth