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Ernst August Weiss: Mathematical Pedagogical Innovation in the Third Reich

In: Amphora

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  • Sanford L. Segal

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It is a well-worn educational cliché that different motivations may produce similar outcomes. Recently Uri Treisman has advocated intense small-group learning of mathematics as a way of motivating bright African-American students to keep them from dropping out of mathematics and college.1 His success has been met with considerable publicity in the United States. A similar desire to retain students in mathematics, but in this case, to help build the new national-socialist man thereby, led Ernst August Weiss in 1934–1939, to a not dissimilar idea. Weiss seems to have been an excellent mathematics teacher, and his mathematics camps seem to have inspired students mathematically as well as politically. They also seem to have become quite popular. Weiss’ reprehensible politics do not alter his pedagogical gifts, nor the possible value of his pedagogical innovation. His “mathematics camps„ are worth examination as one example of how mathematics and Nazi ideology would interact.

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  • Sanford L. Segal, 1992. "Ernst August Weiss: Mathematical Pedagogical Innovation in the Third Reich," Springer Books, in: Sergei S. Demidov & David Rowe & Menso Folkerts & Christoph J. Scriba (ed.), Amphora, pages 693-704, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-0348-8599-7_32
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8599-7_32
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