The transition from arithmetic to the algebraic curriculum in middle school mathematics teaching
Part one: The evolution of didactic transposition
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https://doi.org/10.23925/1983-3156.2023v25i1p508-555Keywords:
Arithmetic, Algebra, Arithmetic/Algebra transition, Didactic transposition.Abstract
This article deals with the transition from arithmetic to algebraic instruction. We will try to highlight, in a specific and necessarily limited way, the extent of the upheaval that teachers had to face. But above all, we will try to show how the structural modifications made at the time in the didactic text impose their effects even today, in an often hidden but very real way, despite the "reform of the reform" that the 1978 programs were supposed to symbolize for the eighth grade.
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