REFLECTION OF PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

As a mathematics education student, I should take philosophy of mathematics education as one of the subject of my lecturing. I should take it because by studying about philosophy of mathematics education, I’ll know mathematics from philosophy scene. But, it’s not easy to learn philosophy of mathematics while there are many dilemmas in it. First, everyone has their own business. We can’t focus on learning philosophy of mathematics when there are many things to be though, because when we study philosophy of mathematics we should be don’t have many problems to think so we have so much spare times to learn it. The other dilemma on studying philosophy of mathematics education is the name of the subject, that is Filsafat Pendidikan Matematika and Philosophy of Mathematics Education. Both of them are same in translation, but have different meaning. In daily life, we speak Bahasa then it would be very hard if we should learn philosophy in English. If we do it, we are afraid not to be able to understand what it is and the unsure of it.

Although there are many dilemmas in it, we still should study about philosophy of mathematics education, because it is one of the important lecturing. The other reason is most of the students are still young, so they have a good adaptation to solve anything. A young man has many chances to learn something new, that’s why we learn Philosophy of Mathematics Education though there are many dilemmas in it.

Since philosophy must be alive, so Dr. Marsigit won’t give the students about the materiel of philosophy. So, the students are letting by Dr. Marsigit to operate their minds, not to do much writing because philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

Based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics_education, the philosophy of mathematics education is an interdisciplinary area of study and research based on the intersection of the fields of mathematics education and the philosophy of mathematics, the latter being understood in an inclusive sense to include multidisciplinary theorizing about mathematics incorporating philosophical, sociological, anthropological, semiotic, historical, ethnomathematical, etc., perspectives. And philosophy is the study of all the phenomena of human life and thinking critically and described the fundamental concepts. Philosophy is not explored by conducting experiments and experiments, but to express the exact problem, find a solution for it, provide arguments and reasons appropriate for a particular solution. End of the processes put in a dialectical process.

Another word, philosophy is such like a world. We can put the word “world” in front of anything, such as world of plant, world of animal, world of lecturing, etc. all of those are applicable in philosophy, such as philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of religion, and so on.

That’s why we should learn philosophy lively, because philosophy is something alive. And the other meaning of philosophy is a mirror which means that we need something to reflect. Then, philosophy is a reflection.

My question is what is the relationship between mathematics and philosophy?

Source:

Philosophy of mathematics education. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics_education