HPM is the International Study Group on the Relations between the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics, affiliated to the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI).

By combining the history of mathematics with the teaching and learning of mathematics, HPM is the link between the past and the future of mathematics. The HPM Study Group aims to investigate different conceptions and views of mathematics. Its members study different eras, mathematicians, regional and national mathematical schools, mathematical textbooks, and many other topics from the rich history of mathematics. They seek to connect the history of mathematics as a discipline, its roles in education, and the roles that it continues to have in developing mathematical instruction and the curricula around the globe.

Among the members of this group we find researchers in mathematics education, mathematicians, historians of mathematics, teachers of mathematics and curriculum developers.

The HPM Group has a chair appointed every four years, an advisory board of scholars and teachers from around the globe, and an executive board which works more closely with the group’s chair.

Regular activities:

• ICME Satellite Meetings of HPM, every 4 years since 1984 on the occasion of the International Congress on Mathematical Education
• European Summer University on the History and Epistemology in Mathematics Education, every 3 years since 1993
• The HPM Newsletter 3 times per year
• HPM at Erme (European Society for Research in Mathematics Education).

Other activities:

• Regional meetings all over the world
• Sessions of the ICMI Affiliated Study Groups in the context of the ICME
• Publication of collective volumes, either of Conference proceedings, or based on contributions in conference proceedings, etc.

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