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An Essay on Philosophy of Mathematics-Education with an Episode  

Oh, Chae-Hwan (Department of Mathematics, Kyonggi University)
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Journal for History of Mathematics / v.23, no.2, 2010 , pp. 59-74 More about this Journal
Abstract
Though considering of philosophy of mathematics can be optional to theoretical mathematicians, that of philosophy of mathematics-education is supposed to be indispensible to mathematics-educators. So it is natural for mathematics-educators to ask what kind of philosophy might be more desirable for mathematics-education. In this context, this essay reviews two kinds of major philosophy of mathematics, Platonism and formalism. However it shows that humanism could be more plausible alternative philosophy of mathematicseducation. In the course of entailing such a result it introduces an episode of lecture for Laplace-transformation as a speculative evidence from experience.
Keywords
philosophy of mathematics; mathematics-education; philosophy of mathematics-education; Platonism; formalism; humanism; Laplacetransformation;
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