Dear Members of the International Mathematics Education Community,

Starting in 2003, the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) has given two awards to recognize outstanding accomplishments in mathematics education research:

• the Felix Klein Award, for lifelong achievement in mathematics education research,
• the Hans Freudenthal Award, for a major program of research on mathematics education.

As of 2024, these awards will be given quadrennially, during the year that an ICME is held. The call for the 2024 awards is given below. Please consider nominating a worthy candidate. This is our mechanism for highlighting the contributions of major scholars who have moved the field forward through focused research programs and lifetime contributions. We recognize that it’s a lot of work to put together a compelling nomination, but please do! ICMI Awards Committees can only choose recipients from officially submitted nominations for the current round, accompanied by full documentation, as specified in the call.

Thank you for considering this call seriously. We look forward to receiving your nominations.

Alan Schoenfeld 
on behalf of the ICMI Klein and Freudenthal Awards Committee

Felix Klein Award

The Felix Klein medal is awarded for life-time achievement in mathematics education research. This award acknowledges senior scholars who have made field-defining contributions over their professional careers. Awardees will have had an impact both at the national level, within their own countries, and at the international level. We have valued in the past those candidates who not only have made substantial research contributions, but also have introduced new issues, ideas, perspectives, and critical reflections. Additional considerations have included leadership roles, mentoring, and peer recognition, as well as the actual or potential relationship between the research done and improvement of mathematics education at large, through connections between research and practice.

Nominations for the Felix Klein Award should include the following:

1. a document (max. 8 pages) describing the achievements of the nominee (e.g., their theoretical contribution and/or empirical research, leadership roles, graduate supervision and mentoring, and peer recognition) and reasons for the nomination (including a description of the nominee’s impact on the field);
2. a one-page summarizing statement;
3. a curriculum vitae of the nominee (max. 20 pages);
4. electronic copies of three of the nominee’s key publications;
5. three letters of support (preferably from different countries); and
6. the names and e-mail addresses of two persons other than the nominee herself or himself who could provide further information, if needed.

All nominations for the Felix Klein Award 2024 must be sent by e-mail to the Chair of the Committee, Alan Schoenfeld using the  email address: chair@klein24.mathunion.org no later than 30 November, 2022. Please also use the Felix Klein Award Nomination Form

The chair will typically confirm receipt within a week of receiving the nomination. If more time than that elapses, please write the Chair directly, to make sure the nomination was not misdirected to a spam folder.

Hans Freudenthal Award

The Hans Freudenthal medal acknowledges the outstanding contributions of an individual’s theoretically robust and coherent research program, which has had a clear impact on our research community. It honors a scholar who has initiated a new research program and has brought it to maturation over the past 10 years. Freudenthal awardees should also be researchers whose work is ongoing and who can be expected to continue contributing to the field. In brief, the criteria for this award are depth, novelty, sustainability, and impact of the research program.

See here for further information about the awards and for the names of past awardees.

The ICMI Klein and Freudenthal Awards Committee consists of a chair (Professor Alan Schoenfeld) and five other members who remain anonymous until their terms have come to an end. The Committee is entering the cycle of selecting awardees or the 2024 awards. It welcomes nominations for the two awards from individuals or groups of individuals in the mathematics education community. The awards committee is committed to the equitable consideration of all researchers in mathematics education, including candidates of diverse national origin, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and members of marginalized or under-represented communities. We encourage the nomination of a broad range of highly qualified candidates, and will give all applications received full and careful consideration.

Nominations for the Hans Freudenthal Award should include the following:

1. a document (max. 5 pages) describing the nominee’s research program and reasons for the nomination (including a description of the nominee’s impact on the field);
2. a one-page summarizing statement;
3. a curriculum vitae of the nominee (max. 10 pages);
4. electronic copies of three of the nominee’s key publications;
5. three letters of support (from different countries, if possible); and
6. the names and e-mail addresses of two persons other than the nominee herself or himself who could provide further information, if needed.

All nominations for the Hans Freudenthal Award 2024 must be sent by e-mail to the Chair of the Committee, Alan Schoenfeld using the  email address: chair@freudenthal24.mathunion.org no later than 30 November, 2022. Please also use the Hans Freudenthal Award Form

The chair will typically confirm receipt within a week of receiving the nomination. If more time than that elapses, please write the Chair directly, to make sure the nomination was not misdirected to a spam folder.

Prof. Alan Schoenfeld
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94707-1670 USA

The Awardees will be presented at ICME-15 in  July 2024 in Sydney, Australia.