“Geometry is grasping space. And since it is about the education of children, it is grasping that space in which the child lives, breathes and moves. The space that the child must learn to know, explore, conquer, in order to live, breathe and move better in it.”

— Hans Freudenthal

Source: Mathematics as an Educational Task (1973), p. 403

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Dutch mathematician 1905–1990

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