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University Mathematics Education

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Introduction

By University Mathematics Education (UME), we shall refer to the teaching and learning of mathematics in higher education institutions. This field of practice is of significant importance in society as mathematics is taught to students in a great variety of fields, from business to physics and, of course, pure mathematics. This chapter outlines main questions, methods, and results from research on UME (here, abbreviated: RUME). University mathematics teachers (including famous researchers, such as Klein 1908) have certainly produced rich texts on their personal experience and views of UME. However, the systematic pursuit of RUME, based on explicit theoretical and empirical frameworks, dates back at most four decades. In the first section, we outline the most common frameworks, as well as the recent history of the field. The last three sections focus on specific themes in RUME: courses and curricula; students’, teachers’, and institutional perspectives on UME; and finally in...

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  1. Department of Science Education, Didactics of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Carl Winsløw

  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Chris Rasmussen

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  1. South Bank University Centre for Mathematics Education, London, United Kingdom

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  1. Laboratoire de Didactique André Revuz (EA4434), Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France

    Michéle Artigue

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Winsløw, C., Rasmussen, C. (2018). University Mathematics Education. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77487-9_100020-1

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