Anton Ottmann

Anton Ottmann (born July 20, 1945 in Heidelberg ) is a German writer and journalist.

Life

Anton Ottmann studied primary and secondary school teachers, secondary school teachers and educational science with psychology and mathematics. He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Heidelberg. In 1969 his first scientific article on mathematics didactics appeared. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was the author of several studies on problems in teaching maths to foreign students.

Since the 1980s he has published working materials for mathematics lessons for German and foreign students in grades 1 to 10, including for special school students. His first publication in the field of fiction appeared in 1996 with “Christmas Today”. This was followed by other Christmas stories in “Christmas is Every Year” and short stories in “The Parisian” and “Stories from Baden and Alsace”. He has received several dialect prizes and is a member of the Association of German Writers. Ottmann lives in Dielheim , Rhein-Neckar-Kreis.

Publications

Fiction

• The Parisian woman and 15 other stories about love, Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2004, ISBN 3-88190-360-7
• Christmas is every year, Info Verlag Karlsruhe 2007, ISBN 978-3-88190-460-5
• Stories from Baden and Alsace, Info Verlag Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-88190-554-1
• Year of mourning, Info Verlag Karlsruhe 2013, ISBN 978-3-88190-718-7
• Kurpfälzer Gebabbel, Info Verlag Karlsruhe 2014, ISBN 978-3-88190-796-5
• Encounters during the Christmas season, Info Verlag Karlsruhe 2018, ISBN 978-3-96308-013-5

Mathematics didactics

• Development and evaluation of a mathematics curriculum for foreign children, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt 1979
• We promote mathematical thinking in children with language difficulties, Verlag Sigrid Persen, Hamburg 1980

Math class

• Mathematics lessons with foreign students - difficulties and possible solutions, aids for teaching foreign children in regular classes, Book 7, ILF, Mainz 1984.
• Written multiplication and division - aids for mathematics lessons with German and foreign students in the orientation level, aids for lessons with foreign children in regular classes, booklet 8, ILF, Mainz 1984
• Assignments, examples and suggestions for teaching together with German and foreign secondary school students, aids for teaching foreign children in German regular classes, booklet 10, ILF, Mainz 1984
• Mathematics for foreign children, folder 1 - 10, Auer Verlag, Donauwörth 79/80/82
• Mathematics for special schools, worksheets for differentiated support, folder 0 - 4, Auer Verlag, Donauwörth 81/82
• Mathematics for foreign and resettled children, copy templates, Auer Verlag, Donauwörth 1980
• Basic arithmetic and numerical notion, master copies, grades 1 - 4, Persen Verlag, Hamburg
• Geometry for primary school, master copies, Persen Verlag, Hamburg
• Geometry, grades 5 - 9, master copies, Persen Verlag, Hamburg
• Arithmetic, grades 5 - 9, master copies, Persen Verlag, Hamburg
• Equations 7/8 and 9/10, master copies, Persen Verlag, Hamburg
• Factual arithmetic, grades 7 - 9, master copies, Persen Verlag, Hamburg

Web links

• http://www.anton-ottmann.de
• Literature by and about Anton Ottmann in the catalog of the German National Library