RecordNumber
3262
Author
Davis, Philip. J.
Crop_Body
Philip. J. Davis
Title of Article
APPLIED MATHEMATICS AS SOCIAL CONTRACT
Title Of Journal
philosophy of mathematics education
Publication Year
2007
Volum
22
Abstract
The author takes the position that mathematical education must redefine its goals so as to create a citizenry with sufficient knowledge to provide social backpressure on future mathematizations. This can be accomplished by increasing the part of mathematical education that is devoted to the description and interpretation of the processes of mathematization and by allowing the technicalities of the formal operations within mathematics itself to be deemphasized or automated out by computer.