Instrumentatation in mathematics education

Luc Trouche (1)

1 EA S2HEP - Sciences et Société ; Historicité, Éducation et Pratiques

In order to define instrumentation in the context of mathematics education, it is necessary to define instruments: at this stage of this article, we do not differentiate between instruments and artifacts, i.e., we regard them as things that are created and used by humans to help, assist, support, enlarge, and empower their activity. Instrumentation is the action to give someone an instrument, or the process by which someone acquires an instrument, in order to perform a given activity. The notion of instrumentation is part of a network of concepts; we will focus here on the main dialectical relationships between them.

Mots clés: Appropriation; Artifact; Document; Instrumental genesis; Instrumentalization; Instrumentation; Orchestration; Resources; System of Instruments

Domaines: Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]; Education

Luc Trouche. Instrumentatation in mathematics education. Stephen Lerman Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education, Springer Netherlands, pp.307-313, 2014, 978-94-007-4977-1. ⟨10.1007/978-94-007-4978-8_80⟩. ⟨hal-01541170⟩