Abstract
Mathematics was introduced as part of the general secondary school curriculum during the 17th century by the Jesuits. This was a significant change in its time, as the humanists of the 15th and 16th centuries had a rather dismissive attitude towards the teaching of mathematics.
The Jesuits, whose order was founded during the fledgling Scientific Revolution, came to see mathematics as an important tool for understanding nature and therefore made its teaching part of their school curriculum. The aim of this state is to summarize the knowledge about Jesuit education that is relevant to the teaching of mathematics.
We will attempt to show that what is referred to by proponents of the constructivist approach as the transmissive style of teaching is probably rooted in the Jesuit approach to the teaching of mathematics.