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The Archaeology of STEM fairs
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As Thurston says? : On using quotations from famous mathematicians to make points about philosophy and education
Hanna, Gila; Larvor, Brendan (2020-09-08)It is commonplace in the educational literature on mathematical practice to argue for a general conclusion from isolated quotations from famous mathematicians. In this paper, we supply a critique of this mode of inference. ... -
Aspects of Humanism : An eight week course
Larvor, Brendan (2012)Humanists have no official doctrine. Humanism is a loose family of views, united by the thought that the business of living is usually and on the whole worthwhile, and that belief in supernatural beings has nothing to offer ... -
The Case for Teaching Syllogistic Logic to Philosophy Students
Larvor, Brendan (2004)Syllogistic logic is a superseded theory, so why bother to teach it? In fact, it has many benefits for general philosophy students. Some are virtues of syllogistic logic alone; others arise from the contrast between ... -
The Concept of Culture in Critical Mathematics Education
Larvor, Brendan; Francois, Karen (Springer Nature, 2018)A well-known critique in the research literature of critical mathematics education suggests that framing educational questions in cultural terms can encourage ethnic-cultural essentialism, obscure conflicts within cultures ... -
Cultural and Institutional Inequalities : The case of mathematics education in Flemish schools
Larvor, Brendan; François, Karen (2016-09-09)This paper has three parts. The first sketches the evolving notions of mathematical and statistical literacy. The second presents the twin resreach programmes of Ethnomathematics and Crtiical Matehmatics Education. The ... -
The Culture of Mathematics
Larvor, Brendan (2013-10-15) -
From Euclidean Geometry to Knots and Nets
Larvor, Brendan (2019-07-15)This paper assumes the success of arguments against the view that informal mathematical proofs secure rational conviction in virtue of their relations with corresponding formal derivations. This assumption entails a need ... -
Human-Machine Collaboration in the Teaching of Proof
Hanna, Gila; Larvor, Brendan; Yan, Xiaoheng (2023-02-02)This paper argues that interactive theorem provers (ITPs) could play an important role in fostering students’ appreciation and understanding of proof and of mathematics in general. It shows that the ITP Lean has three ... -
Lakatos: An introduction
Larvor, Brendan (Routledge, 2013-12-01)Lakatos: An Introduction provides a thorough overview of both Lakatos's thought and his place in twentieth century philosophy. It is an essential and insightful read for students and anyone interested in the philosophy of science. -
The limits of understanding and the understanding of limits : David Hume’s mathematical sources
Larvor, Brendan (Springer Nature, 2023-05-12)David Hume devoted a long section of his Treatise of Human Nature to an attempt to refute the indivisibility of space and time. In his later Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, he ridiculed the doctrine of infinitesimals ... -
Mathematical Cultures: Editorial Introduction
Larvor, Brendan (Springer Nature, 2016)This collection of papers is the principal outcome of a network project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and the London Mathematical Society. This editorial introduction sketches the state of research ... -
A Philosopher's Perspective on the UK’s Higher Education: Teaching in the Iron Cage
Larvor, Brendan (Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP), 2024-02-15)In this collection of research articles and reflective essays, Brendan Larvor argues that the principal task of teachers in higher education is to find ways to pursue the creative, romantic and liberal goals of the ideal ... -
Reverse Pedagogy: a citizens' assembly approach to the BAME awarding gap
Larvor, Brendan; Ahlberg, Joanna (2020-07-10)This project took a bottom-up approach to the BAME awarding gap. The aim was to create the right conditions for BAME students to lead the conversation and shape the recommendations. Knowledge is power. Students were therefore ... -
Reverse Pedagogy: A Citizens' Assembly Approach to the BAME awarding gap
Larvor, Brendan; Ahlberg, Joanna (2021-05-01)This project took a bottom-up approach to the BAME awarding gap. The aim was to create the right conditions for BAME students to lead the conversation and shape the recommendations. Knowledge is power. Students were therefore ... -
Using the proof assistant Lean in undergraduate mathematics classrooms
Hanna, Gila; Larvor, Brendan; Yan, Xiaoheng (2024-04-22)In this paper we develop a case for introducing a new teaching tool to undergraduate mathematics. Lean is an interactive theorem prover that instantly checks the correctness of every step and provides immediate feedback. ... -
Weber and Coyote : polytheism as a practical attitude
Larvor, Brendan (2018-03-09)Hyde claims that the trickster spirit is necessary for the renewal of culture, and that he only lives in the ‘complex terrain of polytheism’. Fortunately for those of us in monotheistic cultures, Weber gives reasons for ... -
What are cultures?
Larvor, Brendan (Birkhauser Verlag Basel, 2016-08-10)In this paper, I will argue for two claims. First, there is no commonly agreed, unproblematic conception of culture for students of mathematical practices to use. Rather, there are many imperfect candidates. One reason for ... -
Why 'scaffolding' is the wrong metaphor : the cognitive usefulness of mathematical representations.
Larvor, Brendan (2020-09-01)The metaphor of scaffolding has become current in discussions of the cognitive help we get from artefacts, environmental affordances and each other. Consideration of mathematical tools and representations indicates that ... -
Why do practice-theoretical PhD students choose the most difficult and controversial theoretical frameworks?
Larvor, Brendan (2016-10-07)