Dutch didactical approaches in primary school mathematics as reflected in two centuries of textbooks

This chapter contains an overview of the most important textbook series used in the Netherlands from 1800 to 2010. We distinguish five time periods, and for each period we highlight the textbook series that are most characteristic. To describe the textbooks that were in fashion in the successive periods we distinguish three categories of textbooks: procedural, conceptual, and dual textbooks. The dual textbooks have elements of the first two. For the procedural textbook series, which are also referred to as ‘mechanistic’, memorisation ofmathematical facts, automatisation on of operational proce... Mehr ...