Networking of Theories as a Research Practice in Mathematics by Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs,Susanne Prediger

How do we take care of the variety of theories in arithmetic schooling? This was once the most query that led the authors of this booklet to came across the Networking Theories workforce. ranging from the shared assumption that the life of other theories is a source for arithmetic schooling examine, the authors have explored the probabilities of interactions among theories, equivalent to contrasting, coordinating, and in the community integrating them.

The booklet explains and illustrates what it capability to community theories; it offers networking as a tough yet fruitful learn perform and indicates how the crowd handled this problem contemplating 5 theoretical ways, specifically the process of motion, creation, and communique (APC), the idea of Didactical occasions (TDS), the Anthropological conception of the Didactic (ATD), the method of Abstraction in Context (AiC), and the idea of Interest-Dense occasions (IDS).

A artificial presentation of every thought and their connections indicates how the task of networking generates questions on the theoretical, methodological and functional degrees and the way the paintings on those questions ends up in either theoretical and functional development. The center of the ebook comprises 4 new networking case stories which illustrate what precisely might be won by way of this technique and what sort of problems may well arise.