from time to prompted mathematicians to look into what the schools are doing and how l[ might be improved. curiosity about how mathematics is created occasionally led to introspection by mathematicians regarding their own reasoning processes and to attempts to teach those processes. Observations of the results of their own children or grandchildren mathematical thinking encouraged some mathematicians to develop detailed analyses of that thinking or programs to improve it. Although these forays into mathemancs education
have not always been sustained, they have usually been given serius consideration . in pat because of the mathematician sstarus in the society.