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Aims
Research in mathematics education at the tertiary level has experienced tremendous growth over the last two decades. While many of mathematics lecture halls are still dominated by instructor's "chalk and talk" and students taking notes, others engage in creative explorations, the use of technology and problem solving. The aim of this Topic Study Group will be to explore recent trends and developments from around the world. The topic is broad, not only because of the geographical variety, but also because of diversity in customers Mathematics at tertiary level is taken by future research mathematicians, taking advanced abstract courses, future consumers of mathematics doing business calculus, liberal arts students relearning basic algebra to comply with "numeracy" requirement, and future teachers of mathematics, to mention just a few target groups and levels. In this group we will also address transition problems from school to university.
Difficulties in mathematics education at the tertiary level are widely acknowledged. But there are also interesting examples of attempts to meet these difficulties successfully. Such development work is often known only locally and therefore there is need to gather these success stories together and share and further develop the ideas involved.
Therefore in TSG 2 we are interested in papers connected to one of the following areas:
- Recent research in mathematical education at the tertiary level varying from relevant approaches to learning to design of learning environment and uses of technology.
- Successful attempts to develop teaching of mathematics at the tertiary level.
- Other relevant areas...
Guidelines for submission
TSG 2 will meet for four sessions of 1.5 hours each. The structure and organization of these sessions will depend upon the proposals submitted. The organizing team invites submissions of proposals for oral presentations or posters relevant to the aims and focus of TSG 2 as described above. We expect that most contributions will address one or more of the issues and questions identified above. The official language of the congress is English and proposals should be presented primarily in English.
- Brief proposals for papers and posters (1000 - 1200 words) should be submitted electronically by Nov 1, 2011 both through the online submission system at the ICME-12 official website and by email to the co-chairs of the TSG 2 (see below for email address of co-chairs).
- Indicate whether your proposal is for a poster or an oral presentation. If your proposal is accepted, you will be invited to prepare a paper of no more than 8 pages in the ICME-12 template to be submitted through the TSG 2 online submission system by 10 April 2012. The template can be found at the ICME-12 website.
- Poster presentations will be allocated time for discussion
- Time allocation and other details (parallel or not) about the oral presentations will be decided upon depending on the number of proposals received
- In case of queries and clarifications contact the two co-chairs
On-line submission
Go to<My Page> at the first page of the Congress Homepagehttp://icme12.org or press <Submit your proposal> button on TSG 2 website in the Congress Homepage.
Deadlines
November 30, 2011: Proposal submission
January 15, 2012: Notification of acceptance
April 10, 2012: Submission of Final Draft
Organizers
Co-chairs : Ansie Harding(South Africa) aharding@up.ac.za,
Juha Oikkonen(Finland) Juha.Oikkonen@helsinki.fi
Team Members : Christopher Sangwin(UK) C.J.Sangwin@bham.ac.uk
Sepideh Stewart(New Zealand) stewart@math.auckland.ac.nz
Miroslav Lovric(Canada) lovric@mcmaster.ca
Sung-Ock Kim(Korea) sokim@handong.edu
Liaison IPC Member : Johann Engelbrecht Johann.Engelbrecht@up.ac.za |
