On the difficulties of acquiring mathematical experience: Case rural education
arXiv:1312.2125
Abstract
Based on a variety of philosophical approaches and my own work for decades in pure and applied mathematics teaching and research, I explain my view upon the basic difficulties of acquiring the Mathematical Experience (in the sense of P.J. Davis and R. Hersh 1981) and submit a list of claims how these difficulties can and should be confronted.
arXiv comment17 pages, substantial bibliography. To appear in EM TEIA | Revista de Educação Matemática e Tecnológica Iberoamericana, 4/4 (December 2013), Thematic issue on "Rural Education: Contributions From Mathematics and Technological Education", http://www.gente.eti.br/revistas/index.php/emteia/