MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION FOR THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE: A CHALLENGE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Keywords:
Human activity, common property, Mathematics educators’ community, observations, curricular.Abstract
This paper shows that Mathematics education is purely a human activity. Conceptualizing
mathematics education as the activity of few isolated specialists to the detriment of the realm of
human cultures makes it not attractive to many students and the human race in general. If
mathematics is to become a common property of humanity,mathematicians themselves need to
learn to transcend their own tribal inclinations to not only entertain the possibility that the
observations and stories of people that are not mathematicians are relevant, but to begin actively
valuing them to genuinely open the mathematics educators’ community to all people that want to
study mathematics. Hence, our mathematics education curriculum should be redesigned to bear
on broad concerns of all rather than to train mathematicians, but to engage all students with
Mathematics, and develop supplementary specialized curricular for those aspiring for
professional careers in Mathematics related fields.
