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Recent advances in mathematics textbook research and development: an overview

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The paper departs from research published in an earlier thematic issue published by ZDM Mathematics Education in 2013 on mathematics textbook research and development by presenting a review of the literature in other languages and including books. Overall, the paper provides a brief overview of the more recent development of research in this area since then. The paper argues that mathematics textbooks as a theme of research have continued to receive rapidly growing attention internationally by opening to new developments such as electronic resources, historical reflections and international comparisons.

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  1. The teacher can not, under any pretext whatsoever, teach other works.

  2. Yet, one should mention that another type of textbooks had emerged since the sixteenth century: those claiming to be able to be read and understood “without the help of a teacher”.

  3. Other [books] will be made to guide the teachers. These will contain principles on the method of teaching, of training young people with civic and moral virtues; explanations and developments of the objects contained in the elementary books of the school.

  4. These propositions, united in one body, will properly constitute the elements of science, since these elements will be like a germ, which it would be sufficient to develop in order to know the objects of science in great detail.

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    Gert Schubring

  2. East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Lianghuo Fan

  3. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Lianghuo Fan

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Schubring, G., Fan, L. Recent advances in mathematics textbook research and development: an overview. ZDM Mathematics Education 50, 765–771 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-018-0979-4

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