March 1998, Vol. 29, Issue 2
Editorial - March 1998
Judith T. Sowder
Mathematics education research is no longer a young discipline. One way of measuring
our age is in terms of years. Jeremy Kilpatrick (1992) traces our history back
to the turn of the century, but he notes that a 1967 conference held at the University
of Georgia seemed “for many participants … to mark the beginnings of true interdisciplinarity
and community among researchers in mathematics education (p. 25).”
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