[Maths-Education] Maths Enthusiast - in Memoriam Simon Goodchild and Davis Tall

[Ernest, Paul]

Colleagues will have been saddened by the passing of  Simon Goodchild and Davis Tall this year.

 Simon Goodchild was a very good mathematics education researcher and team leader, as well as a personal friend and former student

Davis Tall was a giant in our field for 40+ years, literally larger than life, and will be mourned by many. Also a personal friend.

This special issue includes several articles on each of them, both in their own ways, British stars in the firmament of mathematics education

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/vol22/iss3/

Best wishes and condolences to all that feel the loss

Paul

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Paul Ernest
Emeritus Professor, Education, Exeter University, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Homepage https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/groups/education/pmej/ The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal.


P. Ernest (2024) The Ethics of Authority and Control in Mathematics Education:  From Naked Power to Hidden

     Ideology. In P. Ernest, Ed. (2024) Ethics and Mathematics Education The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Springer.

Book Launch by Paul Ernest and others: P. Ernest, Ed. Ethics and Mathematics Education The Good, the Bad and the

    Ugly, Springer. 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZn95yxIr0

P. Ernest (2023). The Problems of Necessity and Authority in Mathematics and Education<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10116307>. Journal for Theoretical &

     Marginal Mathematics Education, Vol. 2, No. 1 (https://www.cppi.me/journal)

The Ethics of Mathematics in Education and Society. Seminar, University of Manila Feb. 2023

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQa6g_4EIPw&t=61s

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Dear Paul, and Colleagues,

Please be aware that the mathematics used in a racist, oppressive, or exploitative practice has nothing to do with that practice. Compare the two examples:

1. The cost of manufacturing a bomb is £26.30 and it kills 9 people. How much does it cost for each person killed?

2. Calculate 26.30 / 9

2 is the mathematical expression of 1, yet it is obvious that 1 is subject to ethical considerations whereas 2 isn't.

Mathematics was developed before, during and after modernity, and as Ole stated, modernity had contradictions; but how are the contradictions of modernity manifest in mathematics considered as a discipline in and of itself? To answer this question, you will have to explain how the so-called contradictions of mathematics manifests in a/b, or a + b, or a - b, etc. However, please be aware that any explanation of the ideological content of mathematics must not contain the examples of an unethical practice, for an unethical practice has nothing to do with the mathematics that is employed. Mathematics may have been used in slavery, for example, but the mathematics used was independent of such a horrible and barbaric practice.  Conversely, Euclid's proof of the angle property of the triangle is independent of Ancient Greece as a slave-owning culture.

 "The odious use of something does not make that something odious"

Thank you,

Stuart

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Subject: Re: [Maths-Education] Ethics and Mathematics Education - Book Launch Online Event Sept 4th

EXCITING NEW BOOK
There will be a Zoom launch early 2025 - But it is out now!

Ole Skovsmose, Critical Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer, 2024

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-71375-0<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-71375-0?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0d3kRMembDN0DKH53Gi-3oZLLPR7WCbcCbCwKo2zcfCD9lRUFDp0PgLhg_aem_5ndsBVtqfECxAdvcGbQwgg><https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-71375-0>


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Paul Ernest
Emeritus Professor, Education, Exeter University, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Homepage https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/groups/education/pmej/<https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/groups/education/pmej/> The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal.


P. Ernest (2024) The Ethics of Authority and Control in Mathematics Education:  From Naked Power to Hidden

     Ideology. In P. Ernest, Ed. (2024) Ethics and Mathematics Education The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Springer.

Book Launch by Paul Ernest and others: P. Ernest, Ed. Ethics and Mathematics Education The Good, the Bad and the

    Ugly, Springer. 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZn95yxIr0<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZn95yxIr0>

P. Ernest (2023). The Problems of Necessity and Authority in Mathematics and Education<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10116307<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10116307>>. Journal for Theoretical &

     Marginal Mathematics Education, Vol. 2, No. 1 (https://www.cppi.me/journal<https://www.cppi.me/journal>)

The Ethics of Mathematics in Education and Society. Seminar, University of Manila Feb. 2023

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQa6g_4EIPw&t=61s<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQa6g_4EIPw&t=61s>

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