Hans Freudenthal-in his capacity as a mathematician as well as a very articulate and thoughtful mathematics educator, as an international 'politician' of mathematics education, as the founder of Educational Studies in Mathematics, as a prolific writer, as an organiser of meetings and conferences-exerted quite an influence on Danish mathematics education from the late 1960s onwards. The Dutch mathematics education tradition thus founded always received close attention from the Danish mathematics

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... education community. In this chapter, I outline and discuss the nature of this influence and I attempt to provide an explanation of why this tradition has resonated so well with implicit and explicit movements in Denmark.