RME in Brief:
Realistic Mathematics Education, or RME, is
the Dutch answer to the world-wide felt need to reform the teaching and
learning of mathematics. The roots of the Dutch reform movement go back
to the early seventies when the first ideas for RME were conceptualized.
It was a reaction to both the American "New Math" movement that was likely
to flood our country in those days, and to the then prevailing Dutch approach
to mathematics education, which often is labeled as "mechanistic mathematics
education."
Since the early days of...
