Mathematics and Mathematics Education Development in Finland: the impact of curriculum changes on IEA, IMO and PISA results

• Main Author: Malaty, George
• Other Authors: HTW Dresden, Informatik, Mathematik
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2012
• Subjects: Mittag-Leffler; Hjalmar Mellin; Ernst Leonard Lindelöf; Rolf Herman Nevanlinna; Lars Valerian Ahlfors; Ernst Bonsdorff; Kalle Väisälä; Elite; Lehrplanänderungen; Unterrichtsstunden; Bildungsreformen; Mathematikolympiaden; Vergleichsstudien; IEA; TIMSS; PISA; Formeln; Algorithmen; Unlogisches; Problemlösen; Alltagsmathematik; elite; curriculum changes; teaching hours; reforms; Olympiads; comparative studies; formulas; algorithms; illogic; problem-solving; everyday life mathematics; ddc:510; rvk:SD 2009
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80604; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80604; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/8060/Proceedings-636pages-Dresden2009_390-394.pdf

Mathematics has got roots in Finland in the last quarter of the 19th century and came to flourish in the first quarter of the next century. In the first quarter of the 20th century, mathematicians were involved in teaching mathematics at schools and writing school textbooks. This involvement decreased and came to an end by the launching of the ‘New Math’ project. Mathematics education for elite was of positive affect to higher education, and this has changed by the spread of education, the decrease of mathematics teaching hours at schools and the changes in school mathematical curricula. The impact of curriculum changes is evident in Finnish students’ performance in the IEA comparative studies, PISA and IMO.