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- Title
El Tratado de Álgebra elemental de Juan Cortázar: un libro significativo para la enseñanza de las matemáticas en España.
- Authors
LEÓN-MANTERO, CARMEN; MAZ MACHADO, ALEXANDER; MADRID MARTÍN, MARÍA JOSÉ
- Abstract
Over the last decades researchers in the History of Mathematics and Mathematics Education have developed a growing interest in analyzing mathematics textbooks which have influenced the teaching of this subject. This increase has been mediated by the relevance of the authors of the manuals or by the widespread use of those manuals. This study presents the analysis of the Spanish textbook Tratado de Álgebra Elemental (Elementary treatise on algebra) written by the 19th century author, Juan Cortázar, one of the first mathematics professors in Spain, whose books were approved for secondary education in 1848 and continued being reprinted until the 20th century. We designed a descriptive and qualitative study using the content analysis technique. The results show that the book included several didactic strategies. Representation systems and the phenomena which Cortázar used to model numerous situations through the mathematical contents included in the books were also categorized.
- Subjects
SPAIN; HISTORY of mathematics; MATHEMATICS textbooks; MATHEMATICS education; CONTENT analysis; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Educatio Siglo XXI, 2021, Vol 39, Issue 1, p235
- ISSN
1699-2105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6018/educatio.469251