Papy’s reform of mathematics education in Belgium: Development, implementation, and controversy KU Leuven
The modern mathematics movement in Belgium is inextricably linked to Georges Papy, a flamboyant and uncompromising professor of algebra at the Free University of Brussels. From the late 1950s, Papy reshaped the content of secondary school mathematics by basing it upon the unifying themes of sets, relations, and algebraic structures. Meanwhile, he innovated the pedagogy of mathematics by functionally interweaving his rigorous discourse with ...