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"Care in Mathematics Education: Alternative Educational Spaces and Practices" by Anne Watson explores the concept of care in mathematics teaching and learning. The book examines why teachers teach the way they do and what motivates them. It presents a range of alternative educational spaces and practices, including indigenous communities, home-schooling, and publicly-funded schools in England. The author emphasizes the importance of care for students' well-being and their relationship with mathematics, as well as care for mathematics itself. The book challenges traditional assumptions about mathematics teaching and offers insights into different perspectives and ideologies in mathematics education. [Extracted from the article]

Reclaiming the lives and experiences of pioneering women in mathematics: Eva Kaufholz-Soldat and Nicola M. R. Oswald (eds): Against all odds: women's ways to mathematical research since 1800. Jenny Boucard deftly examines Sophie Germain's contributions to and engagements with mathematics by adopting a primarily externalist perspective that provides an analytic framework within which she examines socio-political commentary on the discipline from the nineteenth century. Oral histories allow Fajstrup, Gjerløff, and Kjeldsen to profile four Danish women who established professional careers and undertook leadership roles in mathematics in the latter half of the twentieth century. [Extracted from the article]