[ICMI-News] ICMI News 13: December 2009
J Carvalho e Silva
jaimecs at mat.uc.pt
Thu Feb 11 12:39:44 CET 2010
ICMI News 13: December 2009
A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the
ICMI-International Commission on Mathematical
Instruction
Editor: Jaime Carvalho e Silva, Dep. Matematica,
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
CONTENTS
1. Editorial: Some views of ICMI at the crossing of two ECs
2. New Terms of Reference for ICMI
3. CIAEM becomes an Affiliate Organization of ICMI
4. CIAEM-IACME
5. Some update on ICME-12
6. A new ICMI EC is taking charge
7. Request from the European Mathematical Society
8. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community
9. Subscribing to ICMI News
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1. Editorial: Some views of ICMI at the crossing of two ECs
As this is the last editorial to appear in ICMI
News under the current ICMI Executive Committee,
whose term of office ends with this year 2009, we
felt appropriate for the two of us to prepare a
joint note reflecting our common vision of some
recent developments in the life of ICMI --
developments which point to what we consider to
be a promising future.
We wish to stress at the outset that during the
last three years, this EC, pursuing the work of
the previous ICMI EC and in faithfulness to the
values of ICMI, has tried to contribute to the
improvement of mathematics education worldwide by
fostering collaboration and exchange between all
those with professional interest in mathematics
education -- mathematicians, mathematics
educators, teachers, teacher educators... -- and
promoting values of international solidarity.
These last three years have been marked by a
series of important events for ICMI, in
particular the celebration in March 2008 of the
ICMI centennial in Roma, as well as in July 2008
the first ICME congress to be organised in
Latin-America. The ICMI Study programme was also
a very vigorous component of ICMI actions, with
the holding of the conferences for two ICMI
Studies (# 18 on Statistics Education and # 19 on
Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education), the
publication in the New ICMI Study Series (NISS)
of the volumes resulting from four Studies (##
14, 15, 16 and 17), and the launching of two new
Studies: the EIMI Study (# 20) on Educational
Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry, in
collaboration with ICIAM, whose conference will
be held in Lisboa next April, and the Study on
Mathematics Education and Language Diversity (#
21) whose Discussion Document is very soon to be
issued. The preparation of ICME-12, to be held
in July 2012 and for the second time in Asia, is
now intensively on its way and the ICME-12 IPC
had its first meeting last June in Seoul. To
this must be added the specific conferences and
activities organized by the five ICMI Affiliated
Study Groups, which have substantially
contributed to help ICMI achieve its mission.
In order to improve ICMI communication, the
bimonthly e-newsletter ICMI News has been
launched two years ago and the ICMI website
revamped earlier this year. Moreover an ICMI
historical website has been realized by a group
of Italian colleagues. A revised contract has
been concluded with Springer, that now allows
making the outcome of the ICMI Studies published
in the NISS Series freely accessible to everyone
after three years only, and a Digital Library has
been established, accessible through the ICMI
website.
Recent ECs have put a lot of energy in
strengthening ICMI regional networks and we are
pleased to see these efforts now be rewarded,
especially in Africa. The links between ICMI and
UNESCO, which once were quite intense but had
weakened over recent decades, are now effective
and productive again. In particular, UNESCO is
currently publishing a document on the challenges
of mathematics and sciences education in basic
education, whose redaction one of us (M.A.) has
been asked to pilot for the mathematical part,
and to which the ICMI community has substantially
contributed. Links and collaboration with our
mother institution IMU have also strengthened and
we have launched jointly the ambitious Felix
Klein project, whose enthusiastic reception by
the community is extremely stimulating.
Finally, the ICMI Terms of Reference have very
recently been substantially revised in order to
take into account changes that had occurred in
the governance of ICMI as well as the new status
of Associate IMU Member recently created by IMU.
These new Terms introduce a notion of Affiliate
Organization, extending that of Affiliated Study
Group and opening the way to new forms of
international collaboration.
All these achievements are the result of
collective work, within the ICMI EC of course,
but more globally within the international ICMI
community. Without this community, its expertise
and its commitment, ICMI would have neither
strength nor power. ICMI country
representations, and sub-commissions where they
exist, ICMI regional networks, ICMI Affiliate
Organizations, are all essential for structuring
this community and making it powerful.
On behalf of the 2007-2009 ICMI EC, and in
particular on our behalf, we would like to
express our deepest gratitude to all those who
have brought their invaluable contribution to the
mission of ICMI. We are sure that, as they have
supported our work, they will also support the
work of the new ICMI EC, of its President, Bill
Barton, and its Secretary-General, Jaime Carvalho
e Silva.
Together, we, all the members of the community
that ICMI serves as a commission of IMU, must
collaborate and do our best in order to make ICMI
improve as an organization, so that it may more
and more efficiently address the challenges that
mathematics education faces today, as these
challenges, despite our collective efforts and
achievements, are far from being overcome.
Michèle Artigue, President of ICMI, artigue at math.jussieu.fr
Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson at mat.ulaval.ca
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2. New Terms of Reference for ICMI
Following a series of discussions between the
Executive Committees of ICMI and of the
International Mathematical Union (IMU), its
mother organisation, revised Terms of Reference
for ICMI were formally adopted by the EC of IMU
on December 31, 2009, while the ICMI EC had
adopted on the same day Guidelines pertaining to
these Terms.
The new Terms of Reference of ICMI and the
Guidelines are the result of a thorough revision
of the previous version. They aim at reflecting
the evolution in the governance of ICMI so to
ensure that all those having interest in ICMI and
its activities clearly understand the
distribution of duties and rights among the many
actors involved in the life of ICMI. With this
revision, the ICMI Terms are now split into two
parts: the first part is (as previously) under
the jurisdiction of the IMU EC, while the new
second part (Guidelines for the ICMI Terms of
Reference) is under the jurisdiction of the ICMI
EC.
Other changes include the following:
-- A statement related to participation to the
ICMI General Assembly has been added to Clause 2
to stress the importance of the Assembly, now
responsible for the election of the ICMI EC.
-- Clause 3, about the ICMI General Assembly,
specifies in particular that the only members of
the ICMI GA having voting rights are the
representatives of Full Member countries of IMU.
Consequently, the representatives of IMU
Associate Members or non-IMU Members of ICMI, the
representatives of ICMI Affiliate organizations,
and the ICMI EC members, have no voting rights at
the GA.
-- Clause 4c stresses that co-optation on the ICMI EC should be exceptional.
-- Clause 9 introduces an important new notion,
that of "Affiliate Organization", of which the
current notion of "Affiliated Study Group" is
becoming one "cas de figure". Affiliation is now
possible not only for groups devoted to a
specific field of interest in mathematics
education, like the current five ICMI Affiliated
Study Groups, but also to multi-national
organizations with interest in mathematics
education. We trust that this new element will
be helpful in facilitating and supporting ICMI
efforts about international collaboration and
exchanges in mathematics education.
It is the hope of the IMU and ICMI ECs that these
new Terms of Reference for ICMI will be a useful
tool for ICMI and the community it serves.
The new Terms and Guidelines are accessible on the webpage
http://www.mathunion.org/icmi/about-icmi/icmi-as-an-organisation/terms-of-reference/current-terms-2009/
Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson at mat.ulaval.ca
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3. CIAEM becomes an Affiliate Organization of ICMI
The 'Comité Interamericano de Educación
Matemática' (Inter-American Committee on
Mathematical Education) is now officially
affiliated to ICMI, thus being the first
multi-national mathematical education society to
become linked to ICMI under the new scheme of
"Affiliate Organisation" introduced through the
revision of the ICMI Terms of Reference adopted
by the IMU Executive Committee on December 31,
2009. This affiliation was approved by the
Executive Committees of both ICMI and CIAEM.
CIAEM thus joins the five other organizations
that were already affiliated to ICMI (under the
umbrella of "Study Groups"):
HPM The International Study Group on the
Relations between the History and Pedagogy of
Mathematics (1976)
PME The International Group for the Psychology
of Mathematics Education (1976)
IOWME The International Organization of Women
and Mathematics Education (1987)
WFNMC The World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions (1994)
ICTMA The International Community of Teachers of
Mathematical Modelling and Applications (2003)
It is probably most appropriate that CIAEM
becomes the first multi-national mathematical
education society affiliated to ICMI under the
new scheme introduced through the recent revision
of the ICMI Terms of Reference. CIAEM was indeed
founded in 1961 at the initiative of Marshall
Stone, who at that time was the President of
ICMI, thus becoming the first "regional entity"
of ICMI. Hence ICMI was in no way indifferent to
the birth of CIAEM, to say the least. It may be
of interest to note that a "Memorandum on
affiliation of CIAEM to ICMI" was formally
adopted by the ICMI EC when it met during the
1974 International Congress of Mathematicians in
Vancouver (as reported in the ICMI Bulletin no.
5, 1975, p. 5). However this memorandum does not
seem to have been reflected in the ICMI Terms,
and it is not easy to see its actual impact in
the life of ICMI and CIAEM. While the intensity
of the contacts between ICMI and CIAEM may have
varied over the years, depending possibly on the
personality of those in charge of these bodies,
it is clearly the common vision of both the
current ICMI and CIAEM ECs that, following some
efforts for a closer and more regular
collaboration in recent years between the two
organisations, these links are now in excellent
health. To use the words of Angel Ruiz, CIAEM
President and in-coming ICMI Vice-President,
right now is a special moment to tighten still
further the connections between ICMI and CIAEM
and work together, so to foster the development
of mathematics and mathematics education in the
Americas, and especially Latin America. It is
the hope of the ICMI and CIAEM ECs that the
status of ICMI Affiliated Organization, with the
moral obligations for regular contact that it
brings, will be useful in helping these links to
remain vivid and productive over the years.
It should be noted that the 50th anniversary of
CIAEM will be celebrated in 2011 on the occasion
of the XIII Conferencia Interamericana de
Educación Matemática (XIII Inter-American
Conference on Mathematics Education) to be held
in Recife, Brasil (see
http://xiii.ciaem-iacme.org).
More information about CIAEM can be accessed on the its website
http://www.ciaem-iacme.org/
or on the CIAEM page within the ICMI website
http://www.mathunion.org/icmi/about-icmi/affiliate-organizations/math-education-societies/ciaem/
The ICMI EC is currently pursuing discussions
with two other multi-national organizations as
regards a possible affiliation to ICMI and
positive developments should be announced in a
near future by the next ICMI EC.
Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson at mat.ulaval.ca
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4. CIAEM-IACME
The 'Comité Interamericano de Educación
Matemática' CIAEM (Interamerican Committee on
Math Education IACME) is a regional organization
that has been associated with the International
Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI)
since its inception. It shares ICMI's purpose in
promoting research in Math Education. See
http://www.ciaem-iacme.org. From 2010, due to new
terms of ICMI, CIAEM is formally an affiliated
organization of ICMI.
CIAEM was founded in 1961 by a group of
mathematicians and math educators from the three
Americas, led by the famous mathematician,
Marshall Stone, from the United States, who was
at the time the President of ICMI. The principal
objective of CIAEM was to bring together
educators from throughout the Americas to
evaluate and reformulate mathematics curricula in
general, but, especially, to promote the
development of the countries of Latin America.
The first Interamerican Conference on Math
Education was held in Bogotá, Colombia, in
December of 1961. There, the first Executive
Committee of CIAEM was created. The second
Interamerican Conference on Math Education was
held in Lima, Peru, in 1966.
These first Conferences prompted a productive
movement for Math Education in the Americas,
despite the challenges of geography,
communication, and, principally, the economy.
From the beginning the Conferences have been held
regularly: Bahía Blanca, Argentina, November,
1972, 209 participants from 22 countries;
Caracas, Venezuela, December, 1975, 281
participants from 22 countries; Campinas-SP,
Brazil, February, 1979, 569 participants from 28
countries; Guadalajara, Mexico, November, 1985,
180 participants from 24 countries; Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic, July, 1987, 316
participants from 22 countries; Miami, USA,
August, 1991, 141 participants from 21 countries;
Santiago, Chile, August, 1995, 1080 participants
from 17 countries; Maldonado, Uruguay, August,
1999, 600 participants from 20 countries;
Blumenau, Brazil, August, 2003, 600 participants
from 20 countries, and, finally, in Querétaro,
Mexico, in July, 2007, with more than 800
participants from 25 countries.
The XIIIth Conference is going to be held in
Recife, Brazil, in June 2011, where CIAEM will
celebrate 50 years of life. See
http://xiii.ciaem-iacme.org
CIAEM puts an emphasis on the academic and
scientific quality of the event, and on the
presentation of research results and serious
proposals for improving Math Education.
Since its creation, the following persons have
occupied the Presidency of CIAEM: Marshall Stone
(1961-1972), Luis Santaló (1972-1979), Ubiratan
D`Ambrosio (1979-1987), Eduardo Luna (1987-1995),
Fidel Oteiza (1995-1999), Carlos Vasco
(1999-2003), Salett Biembengut (2003-2007) and
Ángel Ruiz (2007-2011).
In the 11th International Congress on Math
Education (ICME 11) Ubiratan D'Ambrosio received
the 2005 Felix Klein Medal from ICMI for his
meritorious achievements and the results of his
life-long dedication to Math Education.
Executive Committee
President: Ángel Ruiz (Costa Rica), angelruizz at racsa.co.cr
First Vice President: Eduardo Mancera (Mexico), eduardo_mancera at prodigy.net.mx
Second Vice President: Patrick Scott (USA), Patrick.Scott at state.nm.us
Secretary: Hernán Miranda (Chile), hmiranda at nmsu.edu
Past President: Salett Biembengut (Brazil), salett at furb.br
Member-at-Large: Hugo Barrantes (Costa Rica), habarran at gmail.com
Ángel Ruiz, President of CIAEM, angelruizz at racsa.co.cr
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5. Some update on ICME-12
As announced in ICMI News 8 (February 2009), the
International Programme Committee (IPC) for
ICME-12 had its first meeting on June 14-17,
2009, in Seoul under the presidency of its Chair,
Sung Je Cho (sungjcho at snu.ac.kr). Many decisions
were then made about the programme, in particular
as regards the plenary sessions and the 37 Topic
Study Groups to be offered at ICME-12 (see the
list below).
General information about the main programme
components is available via the First
Announcement, to be found on the congress website
http://www.icme12.org/.
The ICME-12 congress will be held on July 8-15, 2012, in Seoul, Korea.
LIST OF TOPIC STUDY GROUPS AT ICME-12
TSG 1 Mathematics education at preschool level
TSG 2 Mathematics education at tertiary level and access to tertiary level
TSG 3 Activities and programs for gifted students
TSG 4 Activities and programs for students with special needs
TSG 5 Mathematics education in and for work
TSG 6 Mathematics literacy
TSG 7 Teaching and learning of number systems and
arithmetic --- focusing especially on primary
education
TSG 8 Measurement --- focusing especially on primary education
TSG 9 Teaching and learning of algebra
TSG 10 Teaching and learning of geometry
TSG 11 Teaching and learning of probability
TSG 12 Teaching and learning of statistics
TSG 13 Teaching and learning of calculus
TSG 14 Reasoning, proof and proving in mathematics education
TSG 15 Problem solving in mathematics education
TSG 16 Visualization in the teaching and learning of mathematics
TSG 17 Mathematical applications and modelling in
the teaching and learning of mathematics
TSG 18 Analysis of uses of technology in the teaching of mathematics
TSG 19 Analysis of uses of technology in the learning of mathematics
TSG 20 The role of history of mathematics in mathematics education
TSG 21 Research on classroom practice
TSG 22 Learning and cognition in mathematics
TSG 23 Mathematical knowledge for teaching at primary level
TSG 24 Mathematical knowledge for teaching at secondary level
TSG 25 In-services education, professional development of mathematics teachers
TSG 26 Preservice mathematical education of teachers
TSG 27 Motivation, beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics and its teaching
TSG 28 Language and communication in mathematics education
TSG 29 Gender and mathematics education
TSG 30 Mathematics education in a multilingual and multicultural environment
TSG 31 Task design and analysis
TSG 32 Mathematics curriculum development
TSG 33 Assessment and testing in mathematics education
TSG 34 The role of mathematical competitions and
other challenging contexts in the teaching and
learning of mathematics
TSG 35 The history of the teaching and learning of mathematics
TSG 36 The role of ethnomathematics in mathematics education
TSG 37 Theoretical issues in mathematics education
Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson at mat.ulaval.ca
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6. A new ICMI EC is taking charge
As of January 1st, 2010, a new Executive
Committee of ICMI will take charge for the period
2010-2012. The elected members of this EC,
following the election which took place during
the 2008 ICMI General Assembly held in Monterrey,
are:
PRESIDENT:
William (Bill) Barton (New Zealand)
SECRETARY-GENERAL:
Jaime Carvalho e Silva (Portugal)
VICE-PRESIDENTS:
Mina Teicher (Israel)
Angel Ruiz (Costa Rica)
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Mariolina Bartolini Bussi (Italy)
Sung Je Cho (Korea)
Roger Howe (USA)
Renuka Vithal (South Africa)
Zhang Yingbo (China)
According to the ICMI Terms of Reference, the
past President of ICMI as well as the President
and the Secretary of IMU are also members of this
EC.
For any matter pertaining to ICMI, contact can be
made with the incoming President or
Secretary-General of ICMI, who can be reached at
the following email addresses:
b.barton at auckland.ac.nz (Bill BARTON)
jaimecs at mat.uc.pt (Jaime CARVALHO E SILVA)
Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson at mat.ulaval.ca
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7. Request from the European Mathematical Society
Dear colleagues
As you may know, the European Mathematical
Society (EMS) (http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/),
consisting of about 50 mathematical societies in
Europe, 20 academic institutional members, and
many individual members has a number of standing
committees under which the 'Education' committee
is working to bridge the gap between mathematics
as a field and its teaching and learning in
society.
A new committee
(http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/comm-education.html)
was established this autumn; Günter Törner
(guenter.toerner at uni-due.de) is the chair and
Despina Potari (dpotari at math.uoa.gr) is
vice-chair. The committee will become active from
January 1, 2010 after Konrad Krainer
(konrad.krainer at uni-klu.ac.at) has opened the new
term temporarily on behalf of the Executive
Committee of EMS.
The Committee is interested in becoming a
platform for exchange of information, experience
and views, and to explore issues and problems of
significance to European mathematics education
and promote its development everywhere.
The committee also decided to start with an
inventory: Solid findings in mathematics
education. We regard it helpful to identify two
or three findings in mathematics education which
seem to be established and thus spread the
information to other interested groups in Europe.
Based on the answers, possibly a small volume or
booklet might be produced.
Your comments and hints are welcome.
Guenter Toerner, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen,
Duisburg, Germany, guenter.toerner at uni-due.de
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8. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community
International Consortium for Research in Science
and Mathematics Education - 2010 Consultation
BlueBay Los Angeles Locos Hotel, La Manzanilla, Mexico, March 9-12, 2010
http://ehe.osu.edu/groups/icrsme/
International Symposium in the History of Science:
Mathematics meets physics - General and local aspects
Leipzig, Germany, March 22-25, 2010
http://www.saw-leipzig.de/mathsmeetsphysics
Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry (EIMI)
Lisboa, Portugal, April 19-23, 2010
http://eimi.mathdir.org/
Tenth Maghrebian Colloquium on the History of Arab Mathematics
Tunis, Tunisia, May 29-31, 2010
information: mahdi.abdeljaouad at gmail.com
ICOTS8: 8th International Conference on Teaching Statistics
Data and context in statistics education: towards an evidence-based society
Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 11-16, 2010
http://icots8.org
5th International Conference on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education
Singapore Management University, Singapore, July 13-17, 2010
information: Eileen Tan (origamiwolf at gmail.com),
Patsy Wang-Iverson (pwangiverson at gmail.com)
PME 34 - CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL GROUP
FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July 18-23, 2010
http://pme34.lcc.ufmg.br/
ESU-6 - 6th EUROPEAN SUMMER UNIVERSITY ON THE
HISTORY AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
Vienna, Austria, July 19-23, 2010
http://www.algebra.tuwien.ac.at/kronfellner/esu6/
Fourth International Conference on Ethnomathematics
Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, July 25-30, 2010
http://icem-4.org/
EARCOME5 - The Fifth East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education
Tokyo, Japan, August 18-22, 2010
http://www.earcome5.jp/
YESS-5 - FIFTH YERME SUMMER SCHOOL
Palermo, Italy, August 18-25, 2010
http://math.unipa.it/~grim/YESS-5/Home_YESS-5.html
ICM - International Congress of Mathematicians
Hyderabad, India, August 19-27, 2010
http://www.icm2010.org.in/
epiSTEME - 4: Fourth international conference to
review research on Science, TEchnology and
Mathematics Education
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR),
Mumbai, India, January 5-9, 2011
http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/episteme4
CERME 2011 - Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics
Rzeszow, Poland, February 9-13, 2011
ICTMT10 - 10th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching
University of Portsmouth, July 5-8, 2011
http://www.ictmt10.org/
PME 35 - CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL GROUP
FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
Ankara, Turkey, July 10-15, 2011
SEMT 11 - SYMPOSIUM ON ELEMENTARY MATHS TEACHING
Prague, Czech Republic, August 21-26, 2011
http://kmdm.pedf.cuni.cz/Default.aspx?PorZobr=7&PolozkaID=-1&ClanekID=267
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