1. Editorial

   • W. Dörfler

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 2

2. On mathematics education and culture: Critical afterthoughts

   • Yves Chevallard

   ContinuingEducation Pages: 3 - 27

3. Using geometrical models in a process of reflective thinking in learning and teaching mathematics

   • A. Gagatsis
   • T. Patronis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 54

4. Teachers' attributions and beliefs about girls, boys, and mathematics

   • Elizabeth Fennema
   • Penelope L. Peterson
   • Cheryl A. Lubinski

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 69

5. Similarities and differences in teachers' beliefs about effective teaching of mathematics: Japan and Hawai'i

   • Nancy C. Whitman
   • Morris K. Lai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 81

6. Algebraic word problems: Role of linguistic and structural variables

   • Madis Lepik

   Short Communication Pages: 83 - 90

7. Problems of representation in the teaching and learning of mathematics

   • David Pimm

   Book Review Pages: 91 - 99

8. Announcement

   Announcement Pages: 101 - 107