Background And Context

Abstract

The main part of this book, Chapter 3 – 8, consists of dialogues between two characters M, a mathematician, and RME, a researcher in mathematics education. M and RME discuss issues regarding the learning and teaching of mathematics at university level. The starting points of their discussions are data samples that exemplify these issues. Both data samples and discussion between M and RME originate in data collected in the course of studies that I have been involved in since 1992. In this chapter I introduce the international scene of mathematics education research that the book aims to contribute to and then outline these studies. The presentation is in three parts.