Teachers in their classes always have to cope with heterogeneity, and that by no means is a new problem. In Germany e.g. plenty of (mostly pedagogical) publications from the midst 1970s until today offer brilliant advice for several kinds of differentiation. How then can it be that after forty years, heterogeneity and differentiation are still called a ›mega issue‹? Could it be that those traditional kinds of differentiation are admittedly to be considered or necessary, but not sufficientand if: why? This paper will discuss questions like these aiming to bring together crucial issues for (primary) math education in heterogeneous classes, like standards for mathematical practice, standards for mathematical content, social learning with and from each other, and heterogeneity. Main theoretical concepts are substantial learning environments (Wittmann in
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