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This note is to let everyone know that my term as Canadian representative
to ICMI has ended and I am delighted to welcome Frédéric Gourdeau of
Université Laval to be the new representative. Frédéric’s term will
run until the end of December 2014. I must say I have felt honoured
to serve in this capacity as Canada has always been an active and highly
regarded contributor to the global mathematics education community (and
of course in this regard I must mention Bernard Hodgson’s 11-year tenure
as Secretary-General of ICMI). <br>
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Just to expand on this contribution, there are already many Canadians on
the program for ICME-12 next summer in Seoul. <br>
<a href="http://www.icme12.org/">http://www.icme12.org/</a><br>
First, Bernard will give a Plenary Lecture on the Evolution of Math
Education from the point of view of ICMI. <br>
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Secondly, Canada will have (so far) four regular lecturers:<br>
Brent Davis<br>
Frédéric Gourdeau<br>
Luis Radford<br>
Yvan Saint Aubin<br>
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Thirdly, several of us are associated with Topic Study Groups:<br>
Miroslav Lovric<br>
Viktor Freiman<br>
Egan Chernoff<br>
Stéphane Cyr<br>
Christine Suurtamm<br>
Andy Liu<br>
Lesley Cormack<br>
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Gosh I hope I didn’t miss anyone. But there will be more updates,
and of course the Discussion Groups are still being formed. <br>
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Quite apart from the international scene, I never stop marveling at how
wonderful Canada is as a country to live and work in, and, in particular
(having just come from CMS and CMESG) how vibrant is its mathematics
education community. Having said that it is a challenging (but
extremely interesting!) time to be in the education business. Keep
dancing everyone! :-)<br>
peter<br><br>
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Peter Taylor<br>
Professor<br>
Dept Math&Stats<br>
Queen's University<br>
Kingston ON K7L 3N6<br>
613 533-2434<br>
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