Vol. 12 Num. 1 (1992) Wan Kang , Jeremy Kilpatrick Didactic transposition in mathematics textbooks2 Barbara Jaworski Mathematics teaching: what is it?8 Robert E. Early The alchemy of mathematical experience: a psychoanalysis of student writings15 Gavin Hitchcock The Grand Entertainment: dramatising the birth and development of mathematical concepts21 Lesley Lee Gender fictions28 Despina Potari , Vasiliki Spiliotopoulou Children's representations of the development of solids38 John E. Owens A bridge too far: on the nature of teacher training48