Opin vísindi

Browsing by Author "Prytz, Johan"

Browsing by Author "Prytz, Johan"

Sort by: Order: Results:

  • Icon
    Mathematics education in Iceland in the 20th century - Ólafur Daníelsson's impact 
    Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert (Uppsala University - Department of Education, 2015)
    Ólafur Daníelsson was a towering figure in mathematics teaching in Iceland during the first three quarters of the 20th century. His position as textbook writer, the mathematics teacher of the first 167 primary teachers, and the teacher of the first 20 ...
  • Icon
    Modernising Mathematics Teaching in the 1960s : Controversies in Nordic Cooperation 
    Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Karp, Alexander; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert; Weiss, Ysette; Zender, Joerg (WTM Verlag für wissenschaftliche Texte und Medien, 2023)
    Four autonomous countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, established Nordic cooperation on modernising mathematics teaching in 1960, supported by the Nordic Council and OEEC, later OECD. Working teams wrote directives to teams writing experimental ...
  • Icon
    Recommendations of the Royaumont Seminar on primary school arithmetic : Influences in the Nordic countries 
    Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Menghini, Marta; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert (Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2017)
    Following the seminar on new thinking in school mathematics, held in Royaumont, France, in 1959, the Nordic countries took up cooperation on analysing the situation in mathematics education, to work out curriculum plans and write experimental texts. A ...
  • Icon
    Royaumont's Aftermath in Iceland - Motion Geometry, Transformations and Groups 
    Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Barbin, Évelyne; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Karp, Alexander; Moussard, Guillaume; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert (WTM Verlag für wissenschaftliche Texte und Medien, 2020)
    In the Meran Program in 1905 and at the Royaumont Seminar in 1959, among the main themes were transformation geometry, including motion geometry, and group theory. Those themes entered some Danish mathematics textbooks and the English School Mathematics ...
  • Icon
    Two textbooks on Unconventional Arithmetic: Reactions of Influential Persons 
    Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Krüger, Jenneke; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert; Smid, Harm Jan (Utrecht University - Freudenthal Institute, 2019)
    The paper describes two Icelandic arithmetic textbooks, published respectively in 1780 and 1911– 14, both written at the beginning of an era when enhancing general education was placed on the agenda for restoring the Icelandic society after natural ...