ICMI Awards for 2007

The 2007 Felix Klein and Hans Freudenthal Awards

ICMI is proud to announce the third awardees of the Felix Klein and Hans Freudenthal Medals.

• The Felix Klein Medal for 2007 is awarded to Jeremy Kilpatrick, Professor at the University of Georgia, USA. This distinction acknowledges his more than forty years of sustained and distinguished achievement in mathematics education research and development. It recognises Jeremy Kilpatrick's extraordinary ability to reflect on, critically analyse, and unify essential aspects of the field of mathematics education, while always insisting on the need for reconciliation and balance among points of view, approaches and methodologies. It further recognises the fact that he has always embraced a very cosmopolitan perspective on the field which has been of great significance to mathematics education researchers on all continents.

• The Hans Freudenthal Medal for 2007 is awarded to Anna Sfard, Professor at the University of Haifa, Israel, at the University of London, UK, and also affiliated to Michigan State University, USA. This distinction acknowledges Anna Sfard's highly significant and scientifically deep accomplishments within a consistent, long-term research programme focused on objectification and discourse in mathematics education, a research programme which has had a major impact on many strands of research in mathematics education and on numerous young researchers. It also recognises her ability to uncover, in a thorough, original and scholarly manner, tacit or hidden assumptions behind ideas, approaches, and conventional wisdom, so as to generate new fundamental and striking insights into complex issues and problématiques.

The ICMI Awards represent the judgement of an (anonymous) jury of distinguished scholars of international stature. The jury for the 2007 awards was chaired by Professor Mogens Niss, Roskilde University, Denmark.

Presentation of the medals, and invited addresses of the medallists, will occur at ICME-11, Monterrey, México, July 2008.

Citations of the work of these medallists:

• The Felix Klein Medal for 2007
• The Hans Freudenthal Medal for 2007