Elmar Cohors-Fresenborg

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Elmar Cohors-Fresenborg (born May 19, 1945 ) is a German mathematician and university professor .

Life and research

Cohors-Fresenborg studied mathematics, mathematical logic, physics and economics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU) and the University of Freiburg , Switzerland , from 1964 to 1972 . In 1971 he did his doctorate with Dieter Rödding at the WWU with the dissertation: Sub-recursive function classes over binary trees. In 1972 he passed the 1st state examination for the higher teaching degree in mathematics and became a research assistant at the University of Education in Münster. In 1973 he became scientific advisor and professor at the University of Education in Flensburg and in 1975 he became a full professor at the University of Osnabrück , where he taught until his retirement in 2013. In 1982 and 1983 he was visiting professor at Hua Dong Shida (East China Pedagogical University) in Shanghai , China . He was one of the initiators of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (ERME), of which he was Vice President from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 he was elected chairman of the Society for Didactics of Mathematics.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 2001: Mathematics as a tool for representing knowledge: The Osnabrück curriculum. The math class, 1, 5–13.
  • 2008: Cognition while learning mathematics - knowledge gain through the formation of mental models and the use of metaphors. In C. Urban & J. Engelhardt (eds.), From the meaning and from the difficulty of remembering.
  • 2013: Hopping on the number line as an evidence base for contractual calculation. In contributions to mathematics lessons 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Cohors-Fresenborg, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1945