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Mathematics: functional or not?
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As I write this article, the mathematics education community is being asked to consider proposals for 'functional mathematics'. In this context, I am not the first, nor shall I be the last, to ask the question 'What is mathematics?', but is my 2006 perspective different to others?
Mathematics has its roots in practical requirements. Around 1500 years after Babylonian algebraic texts, the Greeks took the subject to a new level and Euclid, amongst others, laid down the foundations for mathematics as a deductive science.
Buxton, debating the nature and purpose of mathematics in 1984, identified ...
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