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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ICMI News 26: February/ March 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>A Newsletter from the ICMI-International Commission on Mathematical Instruction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ICMI NEWS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Editors: Abraham Arcavi (ICMI Secretary General) and Cheryl E. Praeger (ICMI Vicepresident)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Email addresses: ICMI_Secretary-General at mathunion.org / Cheryl.praeger at uwa.edu.au<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>February 28, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Contents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1. Editorial ? From the desk of ICMI Vice-President Cheryl E. Praeger<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2. The Emma Castelnuovo Award<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>3. News in brief<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>4. Zoltan Dienes, In Memoriam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>5. Have you read?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1. EDITORIAL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>FROM THE DESK OF ICMI VICE- PRESIDENT CHERYL E. PRAEGER<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Welcome to the March 2014 edition of ICMI News, and best wishes for 2014. I am one of the ICMI Vice Presidents,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and have the privilege of serving the world-wide Mathematics Education community through the 2013-2016 term of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the ICMI Executive Committee. I am a mathematician and also a member of the executive committee of ICMI’s parent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>union, the International Mathematical Union (2007-2014). A major part of my contribution to ICMI is through<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>liaison with the IMU, and through my perspective and networks as an academic mathematics researcher and teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For more than 30 years I have worked on national educational and mathematical bodies in Australia, including terms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>on the Australian Government’s Curriculum Development Council and Prime Minister’s Science Council, and recently<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I was elected Foreign Secretary of the Australian Academy of Science. It is a pleasure to serve at the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>international level through ICMI.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Strong links between ICMI and the various mathematical sciences have great benefit for each, and for the wider<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>community. Both mathematics and mathematics education benefit from including mathematicians on the ICMI Executive,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and from working together on mathematical initiatives. Indeed the great mathematician Felix Klein was ICMI’s first<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>President (1908-1920), and his seminal contributions are celebrated both through ICMI’s Felix Klein Award for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>lifetime achievement in Mathematics Education, and the Klein Project launched in 2008 to support mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>teachers to connect the mathematics they teach with the field of mathematics, taking into account the evolution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>of mathematics over the last century. A short and readable biography of Felix Klein, along with biographies of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>many other mathematicians who have served ICMI over the last hundred years can be found on the history of ICMI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>website launched on the occasion of the ICMI centennial conference (Rome 2008) at http://www.icmihistory.unito.it/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The first joint ICMI Study was completed in 2011. It was Study 18: “Statistics Education in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>School Mathematics: Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education”, and was organized collaboratively by ICMI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE). The most recent ICMI Study completed was also<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>organized jointly, this time with the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). It is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Study 20: “Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry” (see later in this newsletter).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I commend to ICMI News readers the forthcoming International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) to be held in Seoul,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Republic of Korea, August 13-21, 2014. Registration is now open: http://www.icm2014.org/en/participants/registration/information <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The ICM will feature a special section “Mathematics Education and Popularization of Mathematics” involving two<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>lectures and several panel discussions, addressing “all aspects of mathematics education, from elementary school<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>to higher education, mathematical literacy and popularization of mathematics” (http://www.icm2014.org/en/program/scientific/topics)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Meanwhile, the ICM Organising Committee has produced a very attractive mathematical calendar (see the last section below).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Several other ICMI initiatives will also be celebrated and reported on later in this newsletter, including the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>wonderfully successful Capacity and Networking Project (CANP) Cambodia led by the immediate past ICMI President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Bill Barton in September 2013 in Phnom Penh. Meanwhile the ICMI Executive is working towards new<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>initiatives: a new ICMI Study and a new ICMI award (see below). I hope you enjoy this edition of ICMI News<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>in its new format, for which we thank the IMU Secretariat (especially Lena Koch).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2. THE EMMA CASTELNUOVO AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE PRACTICE OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Executive Committee of ICMI has decided to create a third award alongside the Felix Klein Award and the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hans Freudenthal Award. The new award will recognize outstanding achievements in the practice of mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>education in order to reflect a main aspect of the ICMI essence not yet recognized in the form of an award.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The new award will be named after Emma Castelnuovo, an Italian mathematics educator born in 1913, in celebration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>of her 100th birthday and honoring her pioneer work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Emma Castelnuovo Award for outstanding achievements in the practice of mathematics education will honor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>persons, groups, projects, institutions or organizations engaged in the development and implementation of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>exceptionally excellent and influential work in the practice of mathematics education, such as: classroom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>teaching, curriculum development, instructional design (of materials or pedagogical models), teacher preparation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>programs and/or field projects with a demonstrated influence on schools, districts, regions or countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Emma Castelnuovo Award seeks to recognize and to encourage efforts, ideas and their successful<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>implementation in the field, as well as to showcase models and exemplars of inspirational practices to learn from.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>As for the existing awards, this award will consist of a medal and a certificate, accompanied by a citation and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>will be awarded only once every four years (and not once every two years as is the case with the other two awards).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>It will be officially delivered at the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) during the opening<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ceremony alongside the Klein and Freudenthal awards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Professor Ferdinando Arzarello, ICMI’s President, has appointed an ad-hoc Committee, separate from the existing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>committee established for the two other awards. Jeremy Kilpatrick was appointed the first Chair, and five other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>recognized and experienced scholars were appointed as Committee members and their names will remain confidential<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>throughout their tenure. These members come from five different countries (each from a different continent).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Committee is completely autonomous, its work and records will be kept internal and confidential, except for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the obvious process of soliciting advice and information from the professional community, which is done by the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>committee chair.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>A call for nominations follows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR THE FIRST ICMI EMMA CASTELNUOVO AWARD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Emma Castelnuovo Award Committee is pleased to announce that nominations are being accepted for the first<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ICMI Emma Castelnuovo Award. The recipient of the award will be announced early in 2015, and the award will be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>conferred at the 13th International Congress on Mathematics Education in July 2016 in Hamburg, Germany. The awardee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(or its representative in the case of an institution, project, or organization) will be invited to present a special<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>lecture at the Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Emma Castelnuovo Award will celebrate outstanding achievements in the practice of mathematics education. It<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>will honor persons, groups, projects, institutions, or organizations that have done exceptionally excellent and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>influential work in our field. Nominees will be evaluated in light of the following criteria:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• the educational rationale for the candidate’s work and what served as a catalyst for that work;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• the problems addressed by the candidate;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• the candidate’s role in addressing the problems, whether they involve curriculum development, teacher education,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> professional development, design of instruction, or other areas of mathematics education practice;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• the conditions under which the work has taken place (the cultural and political context, infrastructure, funding,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> and people involved);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• the originality and creativity involved in how the candidate has addressed problems and overcome obstacles;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• the quality of networking with other key stakeholders (e.g., bridging theory and practice);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• external or internal evaluations of the work, if available;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• the extent of the influence of the work on educational practice, including quantitative or qualitative evidence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> of that influence; and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• the potential of the work to serve as a model (either for inspiring others addressing similar problems or because<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> of taking an approach that could be applied elsewhere with appropriate modifications).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Nominations for the Emma Castelnuovo Award should include the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1) a document (max 5 pages) describing the nominee’s programme and reasons for the nomination (including the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> nominee’s impact on the field);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2) a one-page summary statement;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>3) an account of the genesis and dissemination of the nominee's work and the roles of the people involved,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> with brief curricula vitae of the key persons (max 10 pages);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>4) electronic copies of three publications that reflect the nominee’s work related to the practice of mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> education (e.g., journal articles, textbooks, other instructional materials, or CD-ROMs);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>5) three letters of support (from different stakeholders and, if possible, from different countries); and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>6) the names and e-mail coordinates of two persons who could provide further information, if needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>All nominations must be sent by e-mail (jkilpat@uga.edu) to the Chair of the Committee no later than December 15, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jeremy Kilpatrick, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Chair of the ICMI Castelnuovo Award Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>105 Aderhold Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>University of Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Athens, GA 30602-7124<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>3. NEWS IN BRIEF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• The book resulting from ICMI Study 20 entitled “Educational Interfaces Between Mathematics and Industry” has been<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> published in December, 2013. For more details, refer to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> http://www.mathunion.org/icmi/news/details/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=861&cHash=74e81cfcae1ac8262500b9564c5cdac2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• The ICMI Study 23 – “Primary Mathematics Study on Whole Numbers” was launched in January 2014 in Berlin with the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> first meeting of the International Program Committee chaired by Mariolina Bartolini and Sun Xuhua. The Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Document will be distributed in the near future and the Study Conference will take place in 2015 in Macau, China.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• CANP (Capacity and Network Project) will take place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, September 1-12 and will gather<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> about 45 participants from four East African countries. For details,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> http://www.mathunion.org/icmi/other-activities/outreach-to-developing-countries/canp-project-2014-east-africa/ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• The next meeting of the Klein Project will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the week of 14-17 of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> April, 2014, and will be hosted by IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• ICME 13, which will take place in Hamburg in 2016, has already announced all the details of the plenary activities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> (lectures and panels), the thematic afternoon, the invited lectures (called regular lectures in previous<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> conferences) and the Survey teams. See http://icme13.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• The website Experiencing Mathematics contains a virtual exhibition addressed to secondary school teachers and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> their students. It has been initiated and supported by UNESCO and it contains more than 200 mathematical<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> situations which provide opportunities to experiment, try out, make hypotheses and try to prove them. It<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> exists in five languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> The respective Pdf files can be downloaded from:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> http://www.experiencingmaths.org/pdf/DOCMATH_EN.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> http://www.experiencingmaths.org/pdf/DOCMATH_SP.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> http://www.experiencingmaths.org/pdf/DOCMATH_FR.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> http://www.experiencingmaths.org/pdf/DOCMATH_PT.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> http://www.experiencingmaths.org/pdf/DOCMATH_AR.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• The Banff International Research Station (BIRS, http://www.birs.ca/) is a joint Canada-US-Mexico initiative to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> facilitate collaborative research in mathematics and its applications to science and industry. BIRS is located<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> in the Rocky Mountains and it provides accommodation, board, and facilities needed for research encounters. Every<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> year, over 2000 researchers from 400 institutions in more than 60 countries participate in over 70 different<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> workshops. Starting in 2015, additional workshops will also run in a newly created facility called the Casa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Matemática Oaxaca (CMO) in San Agustín Etla, Mexico. The new research facility will also host summer schools<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> and math education workshops for high schools teachers and students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> (https://www.birs.ca/announcements/2014-02-07/mexico-funding-for-oaxaca)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>4. ZOLTAN DIENES, IN MEMORIAM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Hungarian mathematician Zoltan Dienes has passed away on January 11, 2014 at the age of 97. His ideas and his<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>work had a strong influence in mathematics education in many countries. Details about his interesting biography<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and the scope of his work can be found both in French and in English at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.cfem.asso.fr/actualites/dienes_2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>5. HAVE YOU READ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• The new edition of "Ethnomathematics and Education in Africa" edited by Paulus Gerdes is a reprint of a book<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> originally published in 1995 by the Institute of International Education of the University of Stockholm (Sweden).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> The book contains a collection of papers on mathematics education and African cultures, dating from the period<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> 1986-1992, published in international journals such as “For the Learning of Mathematics”, “Educational Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> in Mathematics” and “Historia Mathematica.” The book can downloaded for free at <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> http://www.lulu.com/shop/paulus-gerdes/ethnomathematics-and-education-in-africa-ebook/ebook/product-21423875.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• A very nice “mathematical calendar” was created by the Seoul ICM Organising Committee. 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