[ICMI-News] ICMI Newsletter - December 2023

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**ICMI Newsletter December 2023**
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Editors:
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[Jean-Luc Dorier ](mailto:icmi.secretary.general at mathunion.org)(ICMI Secretary General)
[Merrilyn Goos ](mailto:mgoos at usc.edu.au)(ICMI Vice President)
[Lena Koch](mailto:icmi.administrator at mathunion.org) (ICMI Administrative Manager)

 

**The ICMI Newsletter publishing dates:**
March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15

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**ditorial- From the desk of Hiraku Nakajima, **
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**IMU President 2023-2026**
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I have been serving as the President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) since January 2023. In February, I attended the ICMI Executive Committee meeting and the subsequent Capacity and Network Project (CANP) Workshop in Bangkok. This marked my first official trip as President.
 
Both ICMI and IMU operate on a four-year cycle, holding international congresses every four years – the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) for ICMI and the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) for IMU. Critical decisions are made at the General Assembly preceding ICME.. 

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**In memoriam – Obituary for Anna Sierpińska (1947 – 2023)
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**A major figure of ICMI passed away: Anna Sierpińska**
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**By Nadia Hardy, Associate Professor (Concordia University, Qc, Canada)**


Anna Sierpińska, professor emerita, Concordia University, Montreal (Qc), Canada, passed away on October 19, 2023. She passed peacefully at her home in Montreal, which she shared with her husband, and where she was often visited by her sons and grandchildren. Anna was born in Wrocław, Poland, and spent time in Egypt and Syria in her youth. In 1990, Anna moved to Montreal to take a position in the department of mathematics and statistics at Concordia University. Anna’s contributions to the domain of mathematics education cannot be put into words; a list to illustrate the quantity or praising the quality of her work will not do justice to the impact she had and will continue to have in the domain. 

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**In memoriam – Obituary for Alan Bishop (1937 – 2023)
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**By Prof. Wee Tiong SEAH (University of Melbourne)**


Alan Bishop passed away comfortably in Cambridge, UK in the Northern Hemisphere autumn, closing a chapter of an illustrious research and academic career spanning over a few decades in both Cambridge University, UK and Monash University, Australia.
Alan’s research in the earlier days of his academic career was on spatial abilities and visualization. Colleagues working with him then were already able to find out how his thinking was ahead of his time. However, it was his sabbatical trip to Papua New Guinea in 1977 that was a game-changer, for it stimulated his awareness of how mathematics and mathematics education are both culturally referenced. Alan then applied his brilliance and innovative thinking to this important aspect of the discipline and pedagogy of mathematics, which popularized the research thread now commonly known as the sociocultural aspects of mathematics, including ethnomathematics and values/valuing.

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**Latest news about ICMI Study 26**
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Angel Gutiérrez (University of Valencia, Spain) and Thomas Lowrie (University of Canberra, Australia) report about ICMI Study 26 “Advances in geometry education” which is devoted to reporting the state of the field of geometry education. The Study will analyze the advances and current challenges in the teaching and learning of geometry, from both innovation and research perspectives. 

The International Program Committee (IPC) has been working on the organization of the Study Conference throughout the year, and the Conference will take place at the Institut National Supérieur du Professorat et de l’Éducation (INSPÉ) of the University of Reims (France) from April 23 - April 26, 2024.
As is the usual practice for ICMI Studies, participation in the Study Conference is by invitation only, among authors of the accepted proposals. Invitations will be sent out in the coming weeks. 

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**News about ICMI Study 24**
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The European Mathematical Society published an article about Mathematics curriculum reforms around the world: Report on the 24th ICMI Study by Renuka Vithal, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa and Yoshinori Shimizu University of Tsukuba, Japan, in issue 130 of the EMS magazine.

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**ICME-15 - Progress update**
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ICME-15 is just over 6 months away. We are delighted to have received more than 2000 TSG proposals, all of which have now been reviewed. Discussion Group and Workshop proposals are open and will remain so until December 31, 2023. Details of these activities and the submission portal are available on the website.

Registration is now open. Please check the website regularly for updates. Information about accommodation options is now available and there will soon be details of an exciting range of excursions from which you can choose. These will include opportunities to explore Sydney’s vibrant culture and rich history, and to meet some of the local wildlife.
Mark your calendar and make plans to be part of ICME-15 from July 7 to 14, 2024. Early bird registration closes on February 15, 2024.
 

**Important dates and deadlines for ICME-15:**


- Proposals for Discussions groups: due by December 31, 2023 
- Proposals for Workshops: due by December 31, 2023 
- Early Bird Registration closes: February 15, 2024

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**News from CDC **
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The Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) is actively working to enhance funding solutions offered to fellow mathematicians in developing countries and is innovating in its communication. On November 30 and December 7, CDC has hosted two webinars to reach mathematician colleagues worldwide. These online meetings provided an opportunity to inform about CDC funding programs, introduced the new CDC grant management platform, and, most importantly, allowed to engage with colleagues. Both of these events were highly successful, and CDC aims to hold them regularly in the future.

In the report you will also find an overview of all CDC funding programs. 

Mathematicians and mathematics educators based in developing countries are strongly encouraged to apply and check out the CDC website for further details.

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**News from the Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) **
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Carolina Araujo and Hélène Barcelo, Chair and Vice-chair of the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics report about CWM activies. 

The CWM invites proposals for funding of up to €3000 for activities or initiatives to support women in mathematics taking place from February 2024 to February 2025.  
Applications should be submitted by January 5, 2024, via the IMU dedicated webform. For more information, please read the full report. 


The 10th issue of the CWM Newsletter has been released and can be read [here](https://62s8s.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/1t6Af4OiGsFWt8P4XfIybJjk8RBQUl/0isVvVm16jSS). 
 

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**News of the International Day of Mathematics (IDM)
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**By Christiane Rousseau, Chair of the IDM Governing Board**


One of the aims of the IDM is to convey the love for mathematics to young people and the message that mathematics is everywhere and that it is useful and beautiful. Everyone is invited to celebrate, with a special invitation to teachers to celebrate in their classroom. Schools can also organize larger events.
 
**The 2024 IDM theme is: Playing with Math.**

The theme is rich: it could invite participation in mathematical games, puzzles, enigmas and other entertaining activities, but also encourage “playing” with mathematics itself, exploring, experimenting, and discovering. Moreover, game theory is a subdiscipline of mathematics, with many important applications, especially in economics.
 
The dream is that the IDM is celebrated in every classroom around the world on a yearly basis.

 

The IDM team needs your help to pass the invitation to celebrate to the local community of schoolteachers and/or to the networks of schools of your country. In particular, we are looking for IDM ambassadors in many countries: see here (Ambassadors)  


**Join us at www.idm314.org!**
All schools around the world are invited to celebrate! 
Pass the word to the school networks around you!

We are here to help.

Contact: Christiane Rousseau: [info at idm314.org](mailto:info at idm314.org)

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**News from our Community**
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**Latest updates from our ICMI Country Representatives (CR) and **
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**Affiliate Organizations**
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**Venezuela is preparing its IDM
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Douglas Jimenez, ICMI representative of Venezuela (standing in the photo) and Ana C. Rojas (sitting in the photo) recently held the first organizational meeting of the IDM, in Barquisimeto, Lara State, Venezuela. The IDM events aim to involve as many people as possible in Venezuela. Last year cartoonist Freddy Jiménez (who appears seated in the photo) achieved four of the five mentions of Venezuela in the Comic Challenge. This year he made an allusive comic on the groups work board, see the photo.

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**News from the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa (AMESA)
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Dr VG Govender, ICMI Representative for South Africa reports about the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa (AMESA) and its activities. AMESA was formed in June 1993, just less than a year before the first democratic elections of South Africa in April 1994. Since 1994, AMESA has held 28 National Congresses. This year the AMESA National Congress took place at the University of Cape Town from June 26 to 30, 2023. The theme was “Mathematics for hope”. There were 1328 delegates at the Congress. As a follow-up to the AMESA Congress, delegates were surveyed on mathematics teaching and learning across the phases of schooling, and mathematics teacher education. 
 

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**News from Cabo Verde**
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João Felisberto Semedo, ICMI Representative for Cabo Verde reports about the Cape Verdean educational system which has experienced many challenges in recent years, but there have also been many gains, especially in teacher training, with a special focus on secondary school teacher training. As in other spheres, the teaching of mathematics has been given special attention, trying to absorb modern guidelines for its improvement. The Cape Verdean educational system has a large number of secondary school teachers with various levels of training in mathematics and other areas, scattered throughout the nine inhabited islands. Several factors have hampered the professional development of these teachers. 

The University of Cape Verde has recently taken an important step by setting up a modern mathematics laboratory (LabMat). The aim is to contribute to consolidation and innovation in the initial and ongoing training of mathematics teachers, observing the basic aspects of mathematics and mathematics didactics, to the extent that the main principles of the new curriculum guidelines can be present in the professional practice of these teachers with unequivocal gains for the system. 
 

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**News from the mathematics decade in every corner of Iran
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Abolfazl Rafiepour, ICMI Representative for Iran reports about the mathematics decade in every corner of Iran. In order to popularize mathematics and make society more familiar with the application of mathematics in real life, the Iranian Mathematical Society has named the first ten days of the eighth month ("Aban") of the Iranian calendar (October 23 to November 1) every year as "Mathematics Decade". The history of this name goes back to 2003. During these ten days, all institutions related to mathematics throughout the country implemented various activities.

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**News from Serbia**
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**DMS – the Serbian Mathematical Society
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Prof. Aleksandar Lipkovski, ICMI Representative for Serbia writes about the history of the Serbian Mathematical Society. The history of modern higher education, including the teaching of mathematics, began in Serbia only in 1804, after the First Serbian uprising in the Ottoman Empire. Inevitably, with it the teaching of mathematics started. The first mathematical book written in modern Serbian language was “Čislenica“ – “Arithmetic” by Jovan Došenović in 1809, printed in Buda (Fig.1). 

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**News from Israel: Mathematics Education in the Shadow of War**
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**By Boris Koichu, ICMI Representative for Israel**

The goal of this communication is to suggest a brief look into the current realities of mathematics education in Israel, a look that can hopefully serve as a point of reference for deepening our reflections as an international community on the role and purpose of mathematics education in times of deep crises, and on how practitioners and researchers can resort to their expertise in order to contribute to overcoming them.

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**Report from the ICTMA21 Conference in Awaji, Japan
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**by Toshikazu Ikeda, Akihiko Saeki, Chair and co-chair of ICTMA21 and **
**Gabriele Kaiser, Vince Geiger, past and current president of ICTMA**
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The 21st International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling and Applications (ICTMA21) was successfully organized by the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of Japan. It was chaired by Prof. Toshikazu Ikeda and vice-chaired by Prof. Akihiko Saeki and Prof. Keiichi Nishimura. The conference took place in person from September 10 to 15, 2023. It adhered to the theme 'Collaboration in Mathematical Modelling Education,' emphasizing the significance of collaboration among students, teachers, researchers, and industry professionals.

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**Invitation to the Eighth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education" (ICHME-8),**
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Call for participation in the Eighth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education, which will be held in-person at L.&A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland)  September 16-20, 2024
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**IMPORTANT DATES**
Abstract Submission: February 15, 2024
Early Bird Registration: April 1 – May 15, 2024
Standard Registration: May 16 – July 31, 2024
Conference Dates: September 16-20, 2024
Final Paper Submission: December 31, 2024
Proceedings Publication (peer-reviewed): third quarter 2025

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**Conferences to come**

 

**13th International Mathematical Creativity and Giftedness Conference (MCG13)**
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Dates: February 20 to 23, 2024

Location: Central University of Technology – Free State SOUTH AFRICA

Website: [https://62s8s.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/1t6Af4OiGsFX6rJMBZfIuHvOjv81fH/4Tip-DN5TO_S](https://www.igmcg.org)
 

**ADiMA, 4
4th Conference of the Association of African Didacticians of Mathematics (ADiMA-4)
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Dates: May 20 to 24, 2024.

Location: Mohammed 6 Polytechnic University - University Ben Guérir (Morocco)

Theme: Teaching mathematics for/through STEM education: challenges and opportunities.

**PME 47
, Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education  **
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Dates: July 17 to July 21, 2024

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Theme: “Rethinking mathematics education together.”

Website: [https://62s8s.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/1t6Af4OiGsFzRZVmZvlE4XzE7k6lNL/C0ORgDeFRxIr](https://events.massey.ac.nz/pme-47-conference/)
 


 

**HPM Satellite ICME meeting**
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Dates: July 1-5, 2024

Location: Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney

Website:  [https://62s8s.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/1t6Af4OiGsGRmHiCyHr9Eo33VZ5V5P/wTlTF9V32b06 ](https://hpm.sites.uu.nl/upcoming-meeting/)


**ICME-15 (2024) **
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Dates: July 7 to July 14, 2024

Location: Sydney, Australia

Website: [https://62s8s.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/1t6Af4OiGsGu6zudMdx4P46stO4EnT/kkSKjHWZvkMk](https://icme15.org/)

 


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