The Legacy of Felix Klein.

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2018.
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Year of Publication:2018
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:ICME-13 Monographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Felix Klein-Mathematician, Academic Organizer, Educational Reformer
  • 1.1 Felix Klein's Upbringing, Education, and Academic Career
  • 1.2 The Characteristics of Klein's Methods
  • 1.3 Educational Reform and Its Institutional and International Scope
  • Bibliography
  • 2 What Is or What Might Be the Legacy of Felix Klein?
  • 2.1 Felix Klein as a Sensitised Mathematician
  • 2.2 Felix Klein Recognized Problems and Described Them in Detail
  • 2.3 Felix Klein Thought About Solutions for Problems
  • 2.4 Felix Klein Suggested Changes not Only in General, but also in a Specific Way
  • 2.5 Felix Klein Asked for Change Not Only on the Organizational Level, but He also Suggested Changes in the Way Mathematics Should Be Taught at University
  • 2.6 Felix Klein Was-Like Many of Us-(also) Driven by External Requests, but When He Was Involved in an Activity, He Was Extensively Committed
  • 2.7 Felix Klein Permanently Critically Considered and Reconsidered His Own Ideas
  • 2.8 Final Remark
  • References
  • Functional Thinking
  • 3 Functional Thinking: The History of a Didactical Principle
  • 3.1 The Demand for Functional Thinking in the Meraner Lehrplan, 1905
  • 3.2 Education in the Habit of Functional Thinking in Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry
  • 3.2.1 Functional Dependencies in Arithmetic and Algebra Teaching
  • 3.2.2 The Principle of Movement and Functional Thinking in Geometry
  • 3.3 Functional Thinking and Mental Representations in Differential Calculus
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • References
  • 4 Teachers' Meanings for Function and Function Notation in South Korea and the United States
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 A Focus on Meanings Instead of on Knowledge
  • 4.3 Our Perspective on Productive Meanings for Function
  • 4.4 Method
  • 4.5 Results
  • 4.6 Discussion
  • References.
  • 5 Is the Real Number Line Something to Be Built, or Occupied?
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The Construction Narrative of the Real Number Line
  • 5.3 Difficulties with the Construction Narrative
  • 5.3.1 The Whole Number/Fraction Divide
  • 5.3.2 The Continuum Gap
  • 5.4 The Occupation Narrative of the Real Number Line
  • 5.5 Quantity, Unit, Measure, Number
  • 5.6 Who Was Vasily Davydov?
  • 5.7 Conclusion: What Is Achieved by the Occupation Narrative of the Number Line?
  • References
  • 6 Coherence and Fidelity of the Function Concept in School Mathematics
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The Definition of Function in School Mathematics
  • 6.3 Probing the Image of Function in the Internet Brain
  • 6.3.1 Mathematical Coherence
  • 6.3.2 Mathematical Fidelity
  • 6.4 Concluding Thoughts
  • References
  • Intuitive Thinking and Visualization
  • 7 Aspects of "Anschauung" in the Work of Felix Klein
  • 7.1 Core Demands for Modernizing the Teaching of Mathematics at Secondary Schools
  • 7.2 Intuition in Mathematics Teaching in Higher Education
  • 7.3 Intuition in Felix Klein's Lectures
  • 7.3.1 Sensate, Idealizing and Abstract Intuition
  • 7.3.2 Intuition and the Function Concept
  • 7.3.3 Proof Through Intuition
  • 7.4 Intuition and the Genetic Method
  • 7.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • 8 Introducing History of Mathematics Education Through Its Actors: Peter Treutlein's Intuitive Geometry
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education
  • 8.3 Treutlein's Models and Textbooks in the University Education of Mathematics Teachers
  • References
  • 9 The Road of the German Book Praktische Analysis into Japanese Secondary School Mathematics Textbooks (1943-1944): An Influence of the Felix Klein Movement on the Far East
  • 9.1 Background and Objective of This Paper
  • 9.2 The Influence of Klein on the Far East: The Case of Japan.
  • 9.3 Integration of Algebra and Geometry with Mechanical Instruments
  • 9.4 Embedded German Praktische Analysis in the Japanese Textbook for Cluster I (1943)
  • 9.5 The Influence of Klein: Germany or Origins from UK and US?
  • 9.6 Conclusion
  • References
  • 10 Felix Klein's Mathematical Heritage Seen Through 3D Models
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.1.1 Klein's Vision for Visualisations
  • 10.1.2 Four Threads of Klein's Vision for Teaching and Learning Mathematics
  • 10.2 Building on Klein's Key Ideas in Today's Classrooms and Seminars
  • 10.2.1 Interplay Between Abstraction and Visualisation
  • 10.2.2 Discovering the Nature of Objects with the Help of Small Changes
  • 10.2.3 Linking Functional Thinking with Geometry
  • 10.2.4 The Characterization of Geometries
  • 10.3 Klein's Ideas on Visualisation and Today's Resources for the Mathematics Classroom as an Introduction to Research Activities
  • References
  • 11 The Modernity of the Meraner Lehrplan for Teaching Geometry Today in Grades 10-11: Exploiting the Power of Dynamic Geometry Systems
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Teaching Space Geometry in School
  • 11.3 The Content of the Activity
  • 11.4 Activities
  • 11.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint-Conception, Realization, and Impact on Teacher Education
  • 12 Klein's Conception of 'Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint'
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 A Differing View of Elementary Mathematics
  • 12.3 Differing Views of the Relation Between Academic Mathematics and School Mathematics
  • 12.4 Implications of the Term "Advanced"
  • 12.5 The Concept of Elements
  • 12.6 Klein's Practice
  • 12.7 Modernism and the Challenge by Set Theory
  • 12.8 Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
  • 13 Precision Mathematics and Approximation Mathematics: The Conceptual and Educational Role of Their Comparison.
  • 13.1 The Lecture Course of Felix Klein
  • 13.2 First Example: Empirical and Idealised Curve
  • 13.3 Second Example: Iterated Inversion with Respect to Three Touching Circles
  • 13.4 Third Example: Gestalt Relations of Curves
  • 13.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • 14 Examples of Klein's Practice Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint: Volume I
  • 14.1 Introduction
  • 14.2 Klein's Didactic Perspective
  • 14.3 Klein's Historical Perspective
  • 14.4 Klein's Mathematical Perspective
  • 14.5 Higher Mathematics from an Elementary Standpoint?
  • 14.6 A Higher Standpoint: First Conclusions
  • References
  • 15 A Double Discontinuity and a Triple Approach: Felix Klein's Perspective on Mathematics Teacher Education
  • 15.1 A Double Discontinuity
  • 15.2 A Triple Approach
  • 15.2.1 Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis
  • 15.2.2 Geometry
  • 15.2.3 Precision Mathematics and Approximation Mathematics
  • 15.3 Klein and Mathematics Teacher Education
  • References.