Learning and Teaching Real World Problem Solving in School Mathematics: A Multiple-Perspective Frame

_I. School, students, mathematics and their 'real worlds'.- Students and their real worlds.- School and the real world: Enculturation or apartheid.- Mathematical literacy: Does it really exist?.- II. Multiple perspectives on real world problem solving in school mathematics.- The activity system perspective.- Mathematization's perspective.- Critical mathematics education perspective.- Perspective of Bruner's narrative and paradigmatic modes of thought.- Ethnomathematics perspective.- III. Contexts of real world problem solving in school mathematics.- Social-cultural context.- Work contexts.- STEM contexts.- Virtual world contexts.- IV. Toward a theory of instruction.- Elements of a multidimensional theory of instruction.- Implications for teaching real world problem solving in school mathematics.- Epilogue.