The secondary–tertiary transition has been studied in a great amount of research in
mathematics education, adopting different focuses and theoretical approaches. I present …

Investigating the transition between educational levels is one of the main themes for the
future of mathematics education. In particular, the transition from secondary school to STEM …

This “ICME-13 Topical Survey” aims to give a view of some of the main evolutions of the
research in the field of learning and teaching Calculus, with a particular focus on established …

Background Changing mathematics curricula and their emphases, lower numbers of student
enrolments in undergraduate mathematics programmes (Barton and Sheryn 2009; and …

Transition to and across university mathematics has been attracting increasing research
effort. In research on transition phenomena, the distinction emphasizes that unique formal …

University mathematics education (UME) is considered, in this paper, as a kind of didactic
practice–characterised by institutional settings and by the purpose of inducting students into …

The founder of the anthropological theory of the didactical, Yves Chevallard, was recently
awarded the Hans Freudenthal medal, given in recognition of “a major cumulative program …

Research reported in this article has been conducted from the theoretical perspective of the
Anthropological Theory of the Didactic developed by Y. Chevallard and his collaborators …

This study investigates social, mathematical, and sociomathematical norms perceived by
college students in an engineering mathematics course and examines the students' sense of …

In this paper we analyse the introduction of irrational and real numbers in secondary
textbooks, and specifically the propositions on how these should be taught, in a sample of …