Guy Brousseau Livres

Focusing on the significance of Guy Brousseau's contributions to mathematics education, this collection addresses the lack of accessibility to his original works in the non-French-speaking world. After recognizing the need for English translations, the authors selected key texts from Brousseau's prolific output between 1970 and 1990, highlighting the foundational principles of his Theory of Didactical Situations. This effort aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of Brousseau's ideas, moving beyond interpretations to present his essential concepts directly.

This work presents one of the original and fundamental experiments of Didactique, a research program whose underlying tenet is that Mathematics Education research should be solidly based on scientific observation. Here the observations are of a series of adventures that were astonishing for both the students and the teachers: the reinvention of fractions and of decimal numbers in a sequence of lessons and situations that permitted the students to construct the concepts for themselves. The book leads the reader through the highlights of the sequence's structure and some of the reasoning behind the lesson choices. It then presents explanations of some of the principal concepts of the Theory of Situations. In the process, it offers the reader the opportunity to join a lively set of fifth graders as they experience a particularly attractive set of lessons and master a topic that baffles many of their contemporaries.