History of Mathematics Education

Handbooks, special collections, etc.

• Bjarnadóttir, Kristin, Furinghetti, Fulvia, & Schubring, Gert. (Eds.). (2009). Dig where you stand. Proceedings of the conference “On-going research in the history of mathematics education”. Reykjavik: University of Iceland, School of Education.
• Bjarnadóttir, Kristin, Furinghetti, Fulvia, Matos, José Manuel, & Schubring, Gert. (Eds.) (2012). Dig where you stand. 2. Proceedings of the second international conference on the history of mathematics education. Lisbon, Caparica: UIED.
• Bjarnadóttir, Kristin, Furinghetti, Fulvia, Prytz, Johan, & Schubring, Gert. (Eds.). (2015). “Dig where you stand” 3. Proceedings of the third international conference on the history of mathematics education, Uppsala: Department of Education, Uppsala University.
• Bjarnadóttir, Kristin, Furinghetti, Fulvia, Menghini, Marta, Prytz, Johan, & Schubring, Gert. (Eds.). (2017). “Dig where you stand” 4. Proceedings of the fourth international conference on the history of mathematics education, Rome: Edizion Nuova Culturay.
• Furinghetti, F.  & Karp, A.  (2018). (Eds.), Researching the History of Mathematics Education. Springer
• Karp, Alexander, Furinghetti, Fulvia (2016). History of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Achievements, Problems, Prospects.  Springer.
• Karp, Alexander, & Schubring, Gert. (Eds.) (2014). Handbook on the history of mathematics education. New York: Springer.
• Kidwell, Peggy A., Ackerberg-Hastings, Amy & Roberts, David L. (2008). Tools of American mathematics teaching,1800–2000 . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Stanic, George M. A., & Kilpatrick, Jeremy. (2003). A history of school mathematics. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Papers and chapters

Barbin, Evelyne, & Menghini, Marta. (2014). History of Teaching Geometry.  In A.Karp & G. Schubring (Eds.), Handbook on the history of mathematics education (pp. 473-492). New York: Springer.

Donoghue, Eileen F. (2003). The emergence of a profession: mathematics education in the United States, 1890-1920. In G. M.A. Stanic & J. Kilpatrick (Eds), A history of school mathematics (pp.159-194). Reston: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Furinghetti, Fulvia (2009). On-going Research in the History of Mathematics Education. International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education, 4(2), 103-108.

Hodgson, Bernard R., & Rogers, Leo F. (2011). Aspects of internationalism in mathematics education: National organizations with an international influence. International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education, 6(2), 87-98.

Hodgson, Bernard R., & Rogers, Leo F. (2012). On international organizations in mathematics education. International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education, 7(1), 17-28.

Kilpatrick, Jeremy (1992). A history of research in mathematics education. In D. Grouws (Ed.), Handbook of research on mathematics teaching and learning (pp. 3–38). New York: Macmillan.

Kilpatrick, Jeremy (2012). The new math as an international phenomenon. ZDM/International Mathematics Education, 44(4), 563-572.

Kilpatrick, Jeremy (2014). Mathematics education in the United States and Canada. In A. Karp, & G. Schubring, (Eds.), Handbook (pp.323-334). New York: Springer. 

• Klein, David (2007). A quarter century of US 'math wars' and political partisanship.  Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin, 22, 22- 33.
• Schubring, Gert (1987). On the Methodology of Analysing Historical Textbooks: Lacroix as Textbook Author. For the Learning of Mathematics, 7(3), 41-51.
• Schubring, Gert (1988). Theoretical categories for investigations in the social history of mathematics education and some characteristic patterns. Bielefeld: Institut  für Didaktik der Mathematik: Occasional papers # 109.
• Schubring, Gert (2014a). On historiography of teaching and learning mathematics. In A.Karp & G. Schubring (Eds.), Handbook on the history of mathematics education (pp. 3-8). New York: Springer.
• Thanailaki, Polly (2009). Gender and Science: Greek Women and the History of Mathematics Education in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education, 4(2), 41-53.
• Zuccheri, Luciana, & Zudini, Verena (2010). Discovering Our History: A Historical Investigation into Mathematics Education. International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education, 5(1), 75-88.

Faculty publications

• Karp,  Alexander  (2007a). Exams in algebra in Russia: Toward a history of high-stakes testing. International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education, 2(1), 39-57.
• Karp, Alexander. 2007b. The Cold War in the Soviet school: A case study of mathematics. European Education, 38(4): 23–43.
• Karp,  Alexander (2007c). ‘We all meandered through our schooling...’: Notes on Russian mathematics education during the first third of the nineteenth century. British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin, Vol. 22, 104-119.
• Karp,  Alexander (2012a). Andrey Kiselev: the Life and the Legend.  Educ. Matem. Pesq., São Paulo, v.14, n.3, pp. 398-410.
• Karp, Alexander (2012b). From the local to the international in mathematics education. In M. A. Clements, A. Bishop, C. Keitel, J. Kilpatrick, & F. Leung (Eds.), Third international handbook of mathematics education (pp.797-826). Dordrecht – Heidelberg – London - New York: Springer.
• Karp,  Alexander (2014). The history of mathematics education: Developing a research methodology. In A. Karp & G. Schubring (Eds.), Handbook on the history of mathematics education (pp. 9-24). New York: Springer.
• Walker, Erica N. (2014). Beyond Banneker: black mathematicians and the paths to excellence. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
• Walker, Erica N. (2017). Excellence and devotion: Black women in mathematics in the United States. In J. Beery, S. Greenwald, J. Jensen-Vallin, & M. Mast (Eds.). Women in Mathematics Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America (pp.106-120). New York: Association for Women in Mathematics and Springer.

A few TC dissertations

• Aricha-Metzer, Inbar. (2013). The History of Hebrew Secondary Mathematics Education in Palestine During the First Half of the Twentieth Century.
• Koller, Alan M. (1990). Mathematics education and Puritanism in colonial America: The colleges of Harvard and Yale.
• Van Sickle, Jenna. (2011). A History of Trigonometry Education in the United States: 1776-1900.
• Zelbo, Sian. (2020). Edgar Joseph Edmunds (1851–1887), Mathematics Teacher at the Center of New Orleans’ Post-civil War Fight over School Integration.

Members of the TSG

Alexander Karp

Sian Zelbo