Hans-Georg Steiner

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Hans-Georg Steiner (born November 21, 1928 in Witten ; † December 14, 2004 in Bielefeld ) was a German math didactic who was a professor at Bielefeld University .

Life

Steiner, son of a landowner who was an anti-aircraft helper in World War II, studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster from 1949 , taking the 1st state examination in 1955 and the 2nd state examination in 1957. After that, he was assistant to Heinrich Behnke until 1959 , the first in 1951 German university seminar for mathematics didactics at the University of Münster. In Behnke he also received international contact with leading Mathematikdidaktikern (as Hans Freudenthal ) and was sent to international conventions such as the ICM in Edinburgh in 1958. From 1967 he was a research assistant for mathematics education at the Institute of geometry of the University of Karlsruhe at Heinz Kunle , and in 1969 he did his doctorate in mathematics with Detlef Laugwitz at the University of Darmstadt ( a mathematical theory of the voting bodies ). In 1970 he became professor for mathematics didactics at the PH Bayreuth , in 1973 professor and (with Michael Otte and Heinrich Bauersfeld ) one of the founding directors of the Institute for Didactics of Mathematics (IDM) at Bielefeld University. In 1993 he retired.

In 1966 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow (The role of axiomatics in mathematics teaching). From 1962 he was a member of the German ICMI Committee (then headed by Behnke) and from 1975 to 1978 Vice President of the ICMI. In 1969 he was co-founder and co-editor of the Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik (ZDM).

Steiner campaigned for the internationalization of mathematics didactics. In 1976 he chaired the International Program Committee of ICME 3 (3rd International Congress of Mathematics Education) in Karlsruhe and organized five conferences "Theory of Mathematics Education" (TME) from 1984 to 1991.

As early as the late 1950s at Behnke, he dealt with the role of modern structural mathematics à la Bourbaki ( New Mathematics ) and applications in mathematics lessons and carried out model tests for mathematics lessons at vocational schools and colleges in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Fonts

  • Mathematical thinking and school mathematics: Essays on didactics of mathematics, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1988 (Ed. Hans-Joachim Vollrath)
  • Editor: Didactics of Mathematics, Ways of Research, Scientific Book Society 1978
    • Therein von Steiner: On the development of the didactics of mathematics
  • Editor with Heinrich Winter : Mathematikdidaktik, Bildungsgeschichte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, IDM: Investigations on Mathematics Lessons, Volumes 12 and 15, Aulis Verlag, 2 volumes, 1985, 1990 (Volume 15 as sole editor)
  • Editor: Mathematik- Philosophie- Bildung, IDM: Investigations on Mathematics Lessons 4, Aulis Verlag 1982
  • Lectures on the fundamentals and structure of geometry from a didactic point of view, Münster: Aschendorff 1966, 2nd edition 1975
  • Editor: Questions of Geometry Lessons, IDM: Investigations on Mathematics Lessons 1, Aulis Verlag 1981
  • Editor: Basic questions of the development of mathematical skills, IDM: Investigations on mathematics lessons 13, Aulis Verlag 1986
  • Editor with H.-J. Vollrath: New problem and practice-related research approaches, IDM: Investigations on Mathematics Lessons 20, Aulis Verlag 1995

Some essays:

  • Modern mathematical thinking and school mathematics, Der Mathematikunterricht, 5, 1959, 5–79
  • The connection of logic and mathematics in mathematical lessons, Mathematisch-Physikalische Semesterberichte, 9, 1962, 74–95
  • The treatment of the concept of function in high school, L'enseignement mathématique, 2e Série, 8, 1962, 62–92
  • Explicit use of real numbers in the axiomatization of geometry, Der Mathematikunterricht, 9, 1963, 66-87
  • Frege and the basics of geometry, mathematical-physical semester reports, part 1, volume 10, 1963, 35–47, part 2, volume 10, 1965, 175–186
  • Modern conceptual methods in the treatment of complex numbers, Der Mathematikunterricht, 10, 1964, 5-35
  • Elementary Proofs of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Der Mathematikunterricht, 10, 1964, 60–93
  • How about the modernization of our math teaching?, Mathematisch-Physikalische Semesterberichte, 11, 1965, 186–200
  • Quantity, structure, and illustration as key concepts for modern mathematics teaching, Der Mathematikunterricht, 11, 1965, 5–19

literature

  • N. Knoche: Hans-Georg Steiner 60 Years, Mathematical Semester Reports, 35, 1988, 147–161
  • Heinz Griesel , R. Fischer: Didactic basic questions of mathematics instruction, Special Issue for Hans-Georg Steiner's 60th birthday, Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik, 20, 1988
  • R. Biehler, A. Peter-Kopp: Hans-Georg Steiner: a life dedicated to the development of didactics of mathematics as a scientific discipline, ZDM - The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 39, 2007, 3-30
  • G. Schubring: Hans-Georg Steiner. A life for mathematics didactics, communications of the society for didactics of mathematics, 79, 2004, 94–98

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first took place in Lyon in 1969 and the second in Exeter in 1972
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German maths didactic
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2004
Place of death Bielefeld