This edition is an essential resource for students, researchers, teacher educators and curriculum policy makers in the field of mathematics education.

This Handbook presents an overview and analysis of the international `state-of-the-field' of mathematics education at the end of the 20th century. The more than

This series addresses the learning of mathematics teachers at all levels of schooling, and the provision of activity and programmes in which this learning can t

The four sections in this Third International Handbook are concerned with: (a) social, political and cultural dimensions in mathematics education; (b) mathemati