L'enseignement des mathématiques face aux défis de I'école au Québec: une cohérence à vivre dans une nécessaire cohésion.

This paper reflects on the teaching of mathematics in Quebec, pointing to some of its successes and some of its difficulties. Prospects for the future are examined at a moment when a new curriculum in mathematics education, centred on the development of competencies, has been put in place in primary schools and is being introduced in high schools. This article focuses not only on the prescriptions and content of this curriculum but also on the representations of mathematics built by teachers and their students and more globally by the population. This portrait permits us to understand certain tendencies, present in Quebec but also in other countries in the world, particularly a tendency to lower the demands made of mathematics students. The analysis also suggests some strategies for resisting these tendencies so as to have a positivie effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]