The Impact of Dutch Mathematics Education on Danish Mathematics Education

Abstract

Hans Freudenthal-in his capacity as a mathematician as well as a very articulate and thoughtful mathematics educator, as an international 'politician' of mathematics education, as the founder of Educational Studies in Mathematics, as a prolific writer, as an organiser of meetings and conferences-exerted quite an influence on Danish mathematics education from the late 1960s onwards. The Dutch mathematics education tradition thus founded always received close attention from the Danish mathematics education community. In this chapter, I outline and discuss the nature of this influence and I attempt to provide an explanation of why this tradition has resonated so well with implicit and explicit movements in Denmark.