Dirk De Bock

KU Leuven — Belgium

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques(121), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills(62), History and Theory of Mathematics(50), Statistics Education and Methodologies(38), Historical Education Studies Worldwide(26)

Publications259 total

Hans Freudenthal en Willy Servais. Hechte vriendschap ondanks uiteenlopende opvattingen over wiskundeonderwijs
Lirias (KU Leuven)·2025
In Search for the Early Roots of New Math Reform Movements
Trends in the history of science·2025
The Rise and Breakthrough of the International Modern Mathematics/New Math Movement in the 1950s
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia ad Didacticam Mathematicae Pertinentia·2024Open Access
The Origin and Evolution of the Concept of Mathematics Curriculum
Springer international handbooks of education·2024
Book Review: One hundred years of mathematics education seen through the lens of ICMI. Fulvia Furinghetti & Livia Giacardi (Eds.) (2022). The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908–2008: People, Events, and Challenges in Mathematics Education
Educational Studies in Mathematics·2023Open Access
The mathematical film: Dynamic geometry in the post-War era
SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository·2023Open Access
On the role of psychologists in the international New Math movement
SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Papy’s Reform of Mathematics Education in Belgium: Development, Implementation, and Controversy
History of mathematics education·2023· 1 cited
Modern Mathematics: An International Movement Diversely Shaped in National Contexts
History of mathematics education·2023· 8 cited
Debates on axiom systems for school geometry during the 1960s: Relating the proposals by Artin, Choquet, Dieudonné and Papy
WTM-Verlag eBooks·2023Open Access
The Early Roots of the European Modern Mathematics Movement: How a Model for the Science of Mathematics Became a Model for Mathematics Education
History of mathematics education·2023· 8 cited
Piet Vredenduin: math teacher and more, trait d’union between the Dutch and Flemish mathematics teachers’ communities
WTM-Verlag eBooks·2023Open Access
The late 1960s Belgian math war: “Papy-ists” versus “anti-Papy-ists”
WTM-Verlag eBooks·2023Open Access
The reception of modern mathematics in Belgian technical education: Adhering or resisting?
Lirias (KU Leuven)·2022Open Access
Frédérique Papy-Lenger, the Mother of Modern Mathematics in Belgium
International studies in the history of mathematics and its teaching·2022· 1 cited
The "best" axiom system for teaching geometry to secondary school students: A source of controversy in the early 1960s
Lirias (KU Leuven)·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Economic Applications in the International Debates on Modelling and Applications Since the 1980s
International perspectives on the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling·2021· 1 cited
Willy Servais and Tamás Varga A Belgian Hungarian perspective on teaching school mathematics
Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
From Royaumont to Lyon: Applications and Modelling During the 1960s
International perspectives on the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling·2020· 8 cited
Georges Cuisenaire’s numbers in colour. A teaching aid that survived the 1950s
WTM-Verlag Münster eBooks·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Wim Van Dooren(36), Lieven Verschaffel(35), Dirk Janssens(19), An Hessels(5), Salvador Llinares(5), Geert Vanpaemel(5), Ceneıda Fernández(4), Kenneth De Beckker(2), Boukje Compen(2), Wouter Schelfhout(2), Fien Depaepe(1), Kasper Claes(1), Johan Deprez(1), Michel Roelens(1), Marleen Evers(1), Kim Vleugels(1), Dave Weyers(1), Brian Greer(1), Deborah Neyens(1), Ellen Gillard(1)