Abstract
We describe the structure and content of a graduate mathematics course, History and Theories of Mathematics Education, which focuses mostly on the history of mathematics education in colonial America and the US, including different authors’ opinions about the purpose/methods of mathematics education. Students study original antiquarian books and read articles by writers who have influenced the development of mathematics education, preparing a major final project that they present at a conference at the course’s end, open to faculty, students and guests. Our aim in designing and implementing this course is to use original sources in the history of mathematics education (rather than the history of mathematics) to allow each student to carry out his/her own individual research in the history of the issues described in these sources, and to report publicly on these results. We give details on the actual implementation of this course and its evaluation by the students enrolled in it.
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