Modern Traditions: reconfigurations of school mathematics in the 1960s Tradições Modernas: reconfigurações da matemática escolar nos anos 1960

• Prif Awdur: Elizabete Zardo Búrigo (Awdur)
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• Cyhoeddwyd: Universidade Estadual Paulista, 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Regarding school curricula as social constructions, in this paper we analyze the building up of a tradition, which goes back to the 1960s, related to the introduction of Algebra in elementary school. This tradition is presented as an inheritance of the modern mathematics movement and it is argued th...