1. Presentatie titel
What is
Realistic Mathematics Education?
Rotterdam, 00 januari 2007
Swakopmund,May 2011

2. Europe
The Netherlands
Holland
Rotterdam
3. 4. Rotterdam primary schools
5. 6. April 12th, 1961
7.

Hans Freudenthal

psychologist, mathematician, founder
of the Dutch New Math Movement.

Main idea: each individual

discovers mathematical structures in
its own living environment and creates
a personal concept of mathematics.
This is the principle of Guided
Reinvention.

Realistic Mathematics Education

http://www.fisme.uu.nl/fisme/en/
8. Mathematics must be connected to reality, stay close to children and be relevant to society, in order to be of human value.
Instead of seeing mathematics as subject matter that has to be transmitted, I see the idea of mathematics as a human activity. Education should give students the guided opportunity to re-invent mathematics by doing it.
This means that in mathematics education, the focal point should not be on mathematics as a closed system but on the activity, on the process of mathematization, going from the world of life into the world of symbols
(Freudenthal, 1968).
9. 1960
Mechanisticmathematics
Education in 95% of the Dutch
primary schools
MME
Context problems as a field of
application,
Procedure-focusedwayof teaching
in which the learning content is
split up in meaningless small parts,
Students are offered fixed solving
procedures to be trained by
exercises.
2011
Realisticmathematics
Education in 95% of the Dutch
primary schools
RME
Context problems as a sourcefor
the learningprocessand to apply
mathematicalconcepts,
Complex and meaningful
conceptualization of teaching and
learning,
Students are considered to be
active participants in the teaching
learning process, in which they
develop mathematical tools
and insights.
10. What is realistic mathematics education?
You enter a classroom. The teacher of this classroom gives her lessons according the basic principles of RME. How do you recognize this?
What is the influence of teaching according RME on the learning of the learners?
What can you expect of the learning proceeds by teaching mathematics education according to the principles of RME?
Does RME make the maths lessons more interesting, more attractive for the learners?
What does a lessonplan look like for a maths lesson
according RME?
11. 12. What is Basic elements of Realistic Mathematics Education

Starting points are contexts and the learner experiences

13. Use of smart strategies 14. Learning by use of models and diagrams 15. Learning in interaction 16. Use of characteristic teaching materials