Recommendations of the Royaumont Seminar on primary school arithmetic : Influences in the Nordic countries

Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Menghini, Marta; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert

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Recommendations of the Royaumont Seminar on primary school arithmetic : Influences in the Nordic countries

Title:	Recommendations of the Royaumont Seminar on primary school arithmetic : Influences in the Nordic countries
Alternative Title:	Ráðleggingar Royaumont-fundarins um barnaskólastærðfræðiÁhrif á Norðurlöndum
Author:	Bjarnadóttir, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Kristín Furinghetti, Fulvia Menghini, Marta Prytz, Johan Schubring, Gert 6 authors Show fewer authors
Date:	2017
Language:	English
Scope:	13
School:	Education
ISBN:	9788868128647
Series:	"Dig Where You Stand" 4; 4() "Dig Where You Stand"; 4()
Subject:	Mathematics (all)
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4873
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Citation: Bjarnadóttir , K 2017 , Recommendations of the Royaumont Seminar on primary school arithmetic : Influences in the Nordic countries . in K Bjarnadóttir , F Furinghetti , M Menghini , J Prytz & G Schubring (eds) , "Dig Where You Stand" 4 : Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education . vol. 4 , "Dig Where You Stand" , vol. 4 , Edizioni Nuova Cultura , Róm , pp. 47-59 , The Fourth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education , Torino , Italy , 23/09/15 . conference
Abstract: Following the seminar on new thinking in school mathematics, held in Royaumont, France, in 1959, the Nordic countries took up cooperation on analysing the situation in mathematics education, to work out curriculum plans and write experimental texts. A Danish author, A. Bundgaard, and her collaborator wrote a textbook series for primary level which was translated into Icelandic. The text is analysed with respect to presentations on arithmetic education at the seminar and compared to previous and later texts in use. The results show that the declared intention of the reform movement to emphasize the structure of the number system and build its presentation on set-theoretical concepts gradually faded out while the study of numbers built on primes and divisibility became a revived topic in Icelandic school mathematics. Furthermore new topics such as statistics and introduction to probability entered the curriculum.