This new and updated second edition of Debates in Mathematics Education explores the major issues that mathematics teachers encounter in their daily lives. By engaging with established and contemporary debates, this volume promotes and supports critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to reach informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.

Divided into five accessible sections, this book investigates and offers fresh insight into topics of central importance in mathematics education, with this second edition including new discussions and chapters on:

• Classic and contemporary issues of pedagogy, politics, philosophy and sociology of mathematics education
• International comparisons of achievement
• Digital technologies for teaching
• Mastery in mathematics
• Pop culture and mathematics

Explore the diverse challenges and opportunities facing mathematics educators today with this comprehensive resource.