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greetings everyone and the very best for what will no doubt be another
eventful year. <br>
<br>
I am forwarding the Dec. 08 issue of the ICMI newsletter, partly to tempt
those who do not get it and might find it of interest, to
subscribe. Instructions for how to do this appear at the end.
<br><br>
In the Editorial at the beginning, the president, Michèle Artigue,
asserts that "ICMI can and must play a major role for addressing the
challenges faced today by mathematics education worldwide."
History has shown that this is a non-trivial task, but it is in effect
accomplished by what we all do, day by day, in our own classrooms.
Certainly world-wide interest in mathematics education has never been
greater. So perhaps, some real progress can be made over the next
few years.<br>
peter<br><br>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:08:44 +0000<br>
From: J Carvalho e Silva <jaimecs@mat.uc.pt><br>
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ICMI News 7: December 2008<br><br>
A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the ICMI-International Commission on
Mathematical Instruction<br>
Editor: Jaime Carvalho e Silva, Dep. Matematica, Universidade de Coimbra,
Portugal<br><br>
CONTENTS<br>
1. Editorial: ICMI News - first anniversary<br>
2. In memoriam --- André Revuz<br>
3. Two new ICMI Study volumes now available<br>
4. Purchasing the NISS volumes: how to obtain the ICMI discount<br>
5. Latest news about PME Newsletters<br>
6. Announcement of New Journal and Call for Papers<br>
7. Second Announcement and Call for Papers for Dresden 2009
Conference<br>
8. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education: inaugural issue<br>
9. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community<br>
10. Subscribing to ICMI News<br><br>
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1. Editorial: ICMI News - first anniversary<br><br>
ICMI News was launched in December 2007 and its Editor, Jaime Carvalho e
Silva, then asked me to write the first editorial. Since that time,
ICMI News has appeared regularly every two months, disseminating
information about current activities of ICMI and of its Affiliated Study
Groups, about events of interest to the mathematics education community,
providing also some snapshots on the history of ICMI. The number of
subscriptions regularly increased, being now of 1042, and for extending
the outreach of ICMI News beyond the sole audience of English speakers,
non-English versions are progressively being made accessible, in the
image of the Portuguese version launched by the Portuguese ICMI
Sub-Commission. Today, one year after the publication of the first issue,
additional efforts must be made in order to have ICMI News reach all
those potentially interested in ICMI activities, but a significant step
has already been achieved, and I would like to thank all those who have
contributed in making this project of the ICMI Executive Committee become
reality. <br><br>
The year 2008 has been for ICMI an exceptional year, with the celebration
of its centennial at the Academia dei Lincei in Roma in March; the
ICME-11 congress taking place for the first time in Latin-America in
Monterrey (Mexico) in July; the satellite conferences of two of its
Affiliated Study Groups, PME and HPM, in Morelia and Mexico City; the
completion of ICMI Studies 15 and 16 (on teacher education and
development and on challenging mathematics) through the publication of
the Study volumes; the conference of the joint ICMI-IASE Study 18 on
statistics education; the launching of the joint ICMI-ICIAM Study 20 on
educational interfaces between mathematics and industry and of ICMI Study
21 on the teaching and learning of mathematics in multilingual contexts;
the design of the joint ICMI-IMU Klein project whose ambition is to
revisit Felix Klein's seminal reflection on mathematical knowledge for
teaching in the light of mathematical, technological and educational
advances; and for the first time in ICMI history the election of the next
ICMI Executive by the General Assembly of ICMI. But nothing would
have been possible without the thousands of members of the ICMI community
who have engaged in these activities and ensured their success, and I
would like to express here the deepest gratitude of the ICMI Executive to
all those who have contributed to the recent actions of ICMI.<br><br>
At the time when ICMI is entering the second century of its life, I am
deeply convinced that, thanks to the commitment, expertise and diversity
of the community it gathers, thanks to the values of collaboration and
exchange it relies on, ICMI can and must play a major role for addressing
the challenges faced today by mathematics education worldwide. In
2009, within the ICMI EC, we will go on trying to do our best for
progressing in that direction and for making our vision for mathematics
education become reality.<br>
With my best wishes for the New Year,<br>
Michèle Artigue, President of ICMI, artigue@math.jussieu.fr<br><br>
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2. In memoriam --- André Revuz<br><br>
André Revuz, who has been a member of the Executive Committee of the
International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) at the time
of the Presidency of Hans Freudenthal (1967-1970), and certainly one of
his closest collaborators in that EC, passed away on October 27th. Beyond
his role in ICMI at a crucial time of its history --- when the necessity
of considering mathematics education as a genuine field of research and
practice emerged, when the first ICME Congress in Lyon in 1969 was
organized and the journal "Educational Studies in Mathematics"
created --- André Revuz has played a major role in mathematics education
in France. All along his life, he has put his remarkable energy and
talent at the service of mathematics education, deeply convinced that
mathematics could be and had to be made accessible to all students.
Strongly engaged in the New Math movement, member of the "Commission
Lichnerowicz" in charge of curricular reform, he became soon
convinced of the crucial role played by teacher preparation and
continuous professional development. He was thus one of the builders of
the IREMs (Institutes of Research in Mathematics Education) from 1969, an
original university structure in France where professional
mathematicians, teachers, mathematics educators and historians work
together, and where from the beginning research and practice, as well as
research and teacher training, have been tightly connected. He became the
first director of the IREM Paris 7 in 1969 and made this IREM a leading
institution in the national network. In 1975, he was also one of the
builders of the first master and doctorate programs in the didactics of
mathematics in France, and strongly supported the institutional
acknowledgement of research and researchers in that area at a time most
university mathematicians were reluctant to do so. And, even after
retiring, he never stopped to be the tireless militant of the cause of
mathematics education that he had been all along his career, he never
lost his capability of rebelling against positions or curricular
decisions that he considered damaging for mathematics education. In 2002,
nearly 90, he engaged himself in the creation of a collective called
"ActionSciences", grouping teacher associations and academic
societies representing the different scientific domains, and acting for
mathematics and science education of high quality for all
students.<br><br>
I personally met André Revuz for the first time when I entered the Ecole
Normale Supérieure where he was teaching Analysis and Topology. Some
years later, as I had been recruited at the mathematics department at the
University Paris 7, he proposed me to join the IREM team on a part time
basis, and then to organize with two other colleagues the teaching of
mathematics in a new experimental elementary school attached to the IREM.
This was how I began to engage in research in mathematics education. From
that time, he has always supported my research work in that area,
encouraged me to prepare a Doctorat d'Etat, and smoothed the way to it.
He will remain for me my father in the field, and a person to whom I vow
the greatest admiration. I have interviewed him last year on the occasion
of the centennial of ICMI and those who understand French can access this
interview on the historical website about ICMI
(<a href="http://www.icmihistory.unito.it/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.icmihistory.unito.it/</a>).<br><br>
Michèle Artigue, President of ICMI, artigue@math.jussieu.fr<br><br>
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3. Two new ICMI Study volumes now available<br><br>
Two volumes resulting from recent ICMI studies have just become
available.<br><br>
-- New ICMI Study Series Vol. 11<br>
"The Professional Education and Development of Teachers of
Mathematics: The 15th ICMI Study."<br>
Ruhama Even and Deborah Loewenberg Ball (Eds.)<br>
2009. ISBN: 978-0-387-09600-1<br><br>
Table of contents:<br>
The preparation of teachers.- Student teachers' experiences and early
years of teaching.- Mathematics educators' activities and knowledge.-
Development of teaching in and from practice.- Processes of learning in
and from practice.- Models, tools, and strategies to support learning in
and from practice.- Balance of mathematical content and pedagogy.- Key
issues for research in the education and professional development of
teachers of mathematics.<br><br>
-- New ICMI Study Series Vol. 12<br>
"Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom: The 16th ICMI
Study."<br>
Edward J. Barbeau and Peter J. Taylor (Eds.)<br>
2009. ISBN: 978-0-387-09602-5<br><br>
Table of contents:<br>
Challenging problems: Mathematical content and sources.- Presentation of
Challenges Beyond the Classroom: Organizational issues.- Challenging
Mathematics Beyond the Classroom Enhanced by Technological Environments.-
Challenging Tasks and Mathematical Learning: Role of the student.-
Mathematics in Context: Focusing on students in challenging
environments.- Teacher Development and Mathematical Challenge.-
Challenging Mathematics Classroom Practices.- Curriculum and Assessment:
Use of Challenges.<br>
More information is available on the NISS homepage
<a href="http://www.springeronline.com/series/6351" eudora="autourl">
http://www.springeronline.com/series/6351</a>.<br>
Individual members of the ICMI community can obtain a substantial
discount when purchasing these books for personal use --- see
below.<br><br>
Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI,
bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca<br><br>
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<br>
4. Purchasing the NISS volumes: how to obtain the ICMI discount<br><br>
Since the 1990s, the volumes resulting from the ICMI Studies appear in
the "New ICMI Study Series" (NISS), now published by Springer
(formerly Kluwer) under the general editorship of the President and
Secretary-General of ICMI.<br><br>
According to the contract between ICMI and Springer, "members of the
ICMI community" are entitled to the ICMI Society Discount,
namely<br>
-- a discount of 60% from the list price on each NISS series
hardbound volume, and<br>
-- a 25% discount on each softbound volume in the series.<br>
The contract wording has been coined so to be as inclusive as possible,
but it is understood that the books thus ordered are for personal use
only.<br><br>
The procedure for obtaining the ICMI society discount is as follows.
<br><br>
i) Orders must be placed personally, on the Springer website,
through the NISS series homepage<br>
<a href="http://www.springeronline.com/series/6351" eudora="autourl">
http://www.springeronline.com/series/6351<br><br>
</a>ii) In order to obtain the society discount granted to ICMI,
individuals should enter the respective tokens when asked to during the
ordering process, under "SpringerToken / promocode".<br><br>
iii) The following Token Numbers have been issued by Springer for
use by the members of the ICMI community:<br><br>
Token for Hardbound: zqwqqJQFWzQ8WqY<br>
Token for Softbound: hAjkrckgWFaEYQA<br>
This discount is not available to institutions or when ordering the NISS
volumes through a bookstore.<br>
Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI,
bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca<br><br>
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<br>
5. Latest news about PME Newsletters<br><br>
A year and a half after the last issue, the International Committee [IC]
of PME is pleased to report the revival of PME Newsletters. There will be
a special issue in January, and there will be a return to regular issues
in May and November.<br><br>
At their meetings at PME 32 in Morelia (Mexico), the PME IC agreed that
the role of PME Newsletters is to respond to the immediate needs of the
membership and the organisation. In this respect the new editors will do
their best to offer the PME community a dynamic and innovative
Newsletter.<br><br>
Each issue of the PME Newsletter will be no more than eight pages in
length and should be prepared in accessible language. The contents of
Newsletters might include:<br>
* The following types of articles from the annual conference:<br>
- summaries of the numbers of: papers received, papers
accepted, participants, and countries represented<br>
- reactions to plenary sessions<br>
- reflections on activities of Discussion Groups and Working
Sessions<br>
- reports from other activities taking place<br>
* Reports of the impact or outcomes of the PME conference (e.g., books,
Special issues of journals, workshops etc.).<br>
* Contributions from experts in the PME community about their research
and developments in their fields (e.g., short summaries, interviews,
etc.).<br>
* Photos etc. of members and/or happenings related to PME activities<br>
* Announcements of what information can be found on the PME website. [It
should be noted that the information found on the PME website should not
be duplicated in the newsletter]<br><br>
These topics will be represented together with the main focus of each
issue:<br>
<u>January issue</u>: Post conference issue which will include short
reports from each PME Portfolio Group (President, Vice-president,
Treasury and Secretary) of what has been done in the (past) year.<br>
<u>May issue</u>: Final notification and announcements related to the
forthcoming annual conference.<br>
<u>November issue</u>: Brief report from the recently held annual
conference<br><br>
On behalf of the PME IC the editors of the PME Newsletter encourage
members of the mathematics education community to contribute to the
Newsletters, submitting articles (brief reports, short summaries, news,
books, events, etc) of interest to the mathematics education community
and/or to PME as an organisation.<br>
Contributions should be submitted to both editors by email :<u>
frade.cristina@gmail.com</u> and<u> zwu@nu.edu</u> not later than:<br>
December 28th for the January issue<br>
April 28th for the May issue<br>
October 28th for the November issue<br>
Cristina Frade and Zhonghe Wu, Editors, PME Newsletter<br><br>
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6. Announcement of New Journal and Call for Papers<br><br>
RIPEM - International Journal for Research in Mathematics Education /
RIPEM -Revista Internacional de Pesquisa em Educação Matemática is a new
international journal on mathematics education. The goal of RIPEM is to
provide a new forum to publish and access high-quality research reports.
The papers are expected to report findings from empirical research and
literature-based scholarly articles that advance theories and scholarship
of Mathematics Education. The journal has an acknowledged Editorial
Board, ensuring high academic standards and broad international
coverage.<br><br>
RIPEM is a journal published by the Brazilian Society for Mathematics
Education, and it will be published online and free of charge.<br><br>
Both emerging and established researchers are invited to submit
manuscripts to inaugural and future issues. All manuscripts should only
be submitted in English. They will be refereed anonymously by at least
two referees.<br><br>
Manuscripts presented in previous conferences could be extended and
submitted, as long as the submission provides a clear contribution beyond
the conference paper, and the overlap is carefully described in the RIPEM
submission.<br><br>
The website of the journal and its web-based submission system is already
open. In order to learn more about the editorial policy and submission
guidelines, all researchers are invited to visit this address:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.sbem.com.br/ojs/index.php/ripem/index" eudora="autourl">
http://www.sbem.com.br/ojs/index.php/ripem/index<br><br>
</a>Although we welcome papers at any time, the deadline to submit a
manuscript for consideration in the inaugural issue is 5th February 2009.
All efforts will be made to ensure that the refereeing and publication
processes will be fast in order to launch the inaugural issue before the
end of first semester of 2009.<br><br>
Jonei Cerqueira Barbosa, joneicb@uol.com.br<br><br>
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7. Second Announcement and Call for Papers for Dresden 2009
Conference<br><br>
The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project & The
University of Applied Sciences (FH), Dresden (Germany) announce the 10th
(Anniversary!) International Conference: "Models in Developing
Mathematics Education" to be held Sep 11-17, 2009 in Dresden,
Saxony, Germany in full cooperation with the Saxony Ministry of
Education.<br>
International Organisers: Dr. Alan Rogerson, Coordinator of the
Mathematics in Society Project (Poland) & Prof. Fayez Mina, Faculty
of Education, Ain Shams University (Egypt). Chair of the Local Organising
Committee: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Paditz of the Dresden University of Applied
Sciences.<br>
You are warmly invited to attend and present a paper at the conference in
the heart of the historic & beautiful city of Dresden.<br>
The Second Announcement can now be downloaded from
<a href="http://www.informatik.htw-dresden.de/~paditz/SecondAnnouncementDresden2009.doc" eudora="autourl">
http://www.informatik.htw-dresden.de/~paditz/SecondAnnouncementDresden2009.doc<br>
</a>For ALL further conference details and updates please email
alan@rogerson.pol.pl .<br><br>
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8. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education: inaugural issue<br><br>
The Editorial Team of the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education (JUME)
would like to announce the launching of its inaugural issue. To gain free
access to the articles in this issue, just register at
<a href="http://education.gsu.edu/jume" eudora="autourl">
http://education.gsu.edu/jume</a> and you can choose to become a part of
the JUME community as a reader, author, or reviewer. We look
forward to you joining our new family as we explore the bounds of the
urban domain in mathematics education.<br>
JUME Editorial Team<br><br>
In the first Issue:<br><br>
EDITORIAL<br>
Illuminating Urban Excellence: A Movement of Change within Mathematics
Education, Lou Edward Matthews<br><br>
COMMENTARY<br>
Putting the "Urban" in Mathematics Education Scholarship,
William F. Tate<br><br>
ARTICLES<br>
Racism, Assessment, and Instructional Practices: Implications for
Mathematics Teachers of African American Students, Julius Davis, Danny
Bernard Martin<br>
Learning Mathematics in a Borderland Position: Students' Foregrounds and
Intentionality in a Brazilian Favela, Ole Skovsmose, Pedro Paulo
Scandiuzzi, Paola Valero, Helle Alro<br>
Math Links: Building Learning Communities in Urban Settings, Jacqueline
Leonard, Brian R. Evans<br>
Practices Worthy of Attention: A Search For Existence Proofs of Promising
Practitioner Work in Secondary Mathematics, Pamela L. Paek<br><br>
<a href="http://education.gsu.edu/jume" eudora="autourl">
http://education.gsu.edu/jume<br><br>
</a>
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9. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community<br><br>
3rd international conference to review research on Science, Technology
and Mathematics Education<br>
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR), Mumbai, India, January
5-9, 2009<br>
<a href="http://web.gnowledge.org/episteme3/" eudora="autourl">
http://web.gnowledge.org/episteme3/<br><br>
</a>CERME 6: Sixth Conference organised by the European Society for
Research in Mathematics Education<br>
University Lyon 1, France, January 27 - February 1, 2009<br>
<a href="http://ermeweb.free.fr/cerme6.php" eudora="autourl">
http://ermeweb.free.fr/cerme6.php<br><br>
</a>3rd International Symposium on Mathematics and its Connections to the
Arts and Sciences<br>
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 21st-23rd of May, 2009<br>
<a href="http://www.umoncton.ca/freimanv/macas3/index.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.umoncton.ca/freimanv/macas3/index.htm<br><br>
</a>5th Asian Mathematical Conference<br>
Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 22 - 26, 2009<br>
<a href="http://math.usm.my/amc2009/" eudora="autourl">
http://math.usm.my/amc2009/<br><br>
</a>ICTMT-9 - 9th Int Conf on Technology in Mathematics Teaching<br>
Metz, France, July 6-9, 2009<br>
<a href="http://www.ictmt9.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ictmt9.org<br><br>
</a>CIEAEM61 - Commission internationale pour l'étude et
l'amélioration de l'enseignement des mathématiques<br>
Université de MONTRÉAL, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 26-31,
2009<br>
<a href="http://www.cieaem.net/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cieaem.net/<br><br>
</a>ICTMA 14 - 14th International Conference on the Teaching of
Mathematical Modelling and Applications<br>
University of Hamburg, Germany, July 27-31, 2009<br>
<a href="http://www.ictma14.de/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ictma14.de/<br><br>
</a>SEMT '09 - 10th bi-annual conference on Elementary Mathematics
Teaching,<br>
"The development of mathematical understanding"<br>
Prague, August 23-28, 2009<br>
<a href="http://kmdm.pedf.cuni.cz/" eudora="autourl">
http://kmdm.pedf.cuni.cz<br><br>
</a>"Models in Developing Mathematics Education"<br>
The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project<br>
Dresden, Saxony, Germany, September 11-17, 2009<br>
<a href="mailto:arogerson@inetia.pl">alan@rogerson.pol.pl</a><br><br>
SRD'09 - Southern Right Delta'09<br>
7th Southern Hemisphere Conference on the Teaching<br>
and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics<br>
Gordons Bay, South Africa, 29 November-4 December 2009<br>
<a href="http://www.delta2009.co.za/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.delta2009.co.za<br><br>
</a>
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