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(2017) Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser.
The current crisis in the school-level mathematics education is a sign that it reaches a bifurcation point and will inevitably split into two streams: • education for a selected minority of children/young people who, in their adult lives, will be filling increasingly small share of jobs which really require mathematics competence (I call them makers); and• awareness classes for the rest of population, end users of technology saturated by mathematics which however will remain invisible to them.In this paper, I discuss challenges arising in mathematics education for the makers. This is a theme which is rarely discussed in the mathematics education literature. It demands re-thinking of basic assumptions underpinning the mainstream mathematics education.I invite the reader to discard taboos and start a frank and open discussion of this difficult problem:What is Mathematics Education, Really?
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_22
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Borovik, A. V. (2017)., Mathematics for makers and mathematics for users, in B. Sriraman (ed.), Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 309-327.
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