[ICMI-News] ICMI News 15: December 2010

J Carvalho e Silva jaimecs at mat.uc.pt
Mon Jan 31 23:19:23 CET 2011


ICMI News 15: December 2010

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: Affiliate Organizations
2. ICMI Announcement: Affiliate organizations
3. ICMI elections: TRIPLE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
4. Proceedings of the Symposium Celebrating the Centennial of the ICMI
5. The Teacher Development Continuum in the United States and China
6. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community
7. Subscribing to ICMI News

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1.  Editorial: Affiliate Organizations

On the very last day of the year 2009, an 
important modification in the ICMI Terms of 
Reference was approved by the ICMI and IMU 
Executive Committees. It allowed the formal 
incorporation into ICMI of multinational 
associations with an interest in mathematics 
education (in general, and with regional 
perspective):
ICMI may approve, through its Executive 
Committee, the affiliation to ICMI of 
multi-national organizations that operate in ways 
consistent with its aims and values. ICMI and the 
Affiliate Organizations are independent, 
financially and otherwise. Affiliate 
Organizations shall produce quadrennial reports 
to be presented at the General Assembly of ICMI, 
and a brief annual report on their activities for 
the ICMI Bulletin. Affiliation may be terminated 
by decision of the ICMI Executive Committee, or 
by request of the Affiliate Organization.

Until that moment such organisations could 
participate only as "Affiliated Study Groups", 
that is, groups devoted to a specific field of 
interest in mathematics education, as HPM, PME,Š

Since this modification was made, the following 
organizations have been affiliated to ICMI: the 
Comité Interamericano de Educación Matemática 
CIAEM (Interamerican Committee of Mathematics 
Education IACME), the European Society for 
Research in Mathematics Education ERME, and, more 
recently, the International Commission for the 
Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching 
CIEAEM. Other multinational and regional 
organizations are expected to affiliate in the 
future.

CIAEM, the first group to step forward 
(http://www.ciaem-iacme.org), is the main 
multinational organization in mathematics 
education in Latin America. Its history goes back 
to 1961, when it was founded under the influence 
of Marshall Stone who by then was president of 
ICMI. There had always existed?although with 
variable in intensity through the years?an 
important connection between CIAEM and ICMI. 
During this long history, that will reach 50 
years in XIII the Inter-American Conference of 
Mathematical Education (Recife, Brazil, 26-30 of 
June 2011), CIAEM-IACME has pursued the building 
of bridges between mathematics educators of the 
Americas, promoting research, advancing 
scientific quality and strengthening educational 
experiences and the mathematics education 
professional community within this region of the 
world.

ERME was founded 1999, in Osnabrueck, Germany 
(http://www.erme.unito.it), after a decision 
taken in 1997 by 16 European countries gathered 
in this same city. This society "fosters and 
supports cooperative activities on common themes, 
topics and interests, aimed at: finding out what 
research is going on in different places in 
Europe which might benefit from wider 
investigation; going beyond local contexts to 
enhance knowledge and understanding in scientific 
areas; bringing together and drawing on expertise 
in related areas to broaden scientific knowledge; 
and identifying key areas of scientific interest 
or concern which should be a major focus for 
collaborative research on a wider scale". ERME 
will have its Seventh Congress of the European 
Society for Research in Mathematics Education, in 
Rzeszów, Poland: 9th to 13th February 2011.

CIEAEM (http://www.cieaem.net), founded in 1950, 
aims to investigate, especially through 
conferences, the actual conditions and the 
possibilities for the development of mathematics 
education in order to improve the quality of 
teaching mathematics. The conferences are 
"characterized by exchange and discussion of the 
research work and its realization in practice and 
by the dialogue between researchers and educators 
in all domains of practice".

How important are these formal links? By becoming 
affiliated to ICMI, on-going collaborative 
activities between ICMI and these groups (in 
different degrees and with different 
characteristics), now will especially be 
strengthened in many ways. For these 
organizations it is not only a matter of 
complying with the formal commitments, which are 
very few: there are new real possibilities for 
closer relation to ICMI projects and activities, 
and to new organizations that are connected to 
ICMI, and thus linked to the international and 
multinational mathematics education community in 
very rich ways.

The historical relevance of all this resides on 
several planes: first, the benefit of affiliation 
to ICMI of groups (individuals and collection of 
activities) informally linked in many ways to it 
and the promise to expand this trend. But also, 
and this is the key plane: this provides a dose 
of special organizational flexibility to ICMI. 
Both planes converge. Looking ahead, ICMI, 
without undermining its scientific perspective 
and path as the reference point in international 
mathematics education (associated with the IMU), 
needs to face the challenge of further expansion 
of its scientific and professional discipline in 
a world that, intensely and increasingly 
globalized, promotes the emergence of 
multinational, diverse and local regional 
players. Globalization, diversity and 
individualization are key vectors at this time. 
The three conditions reinforce the needs towards 
inclusiveness and organizational flexibility and 
dynamism. And that certainly affects the attitude 
(and possibilities) towards the "outside world" 
(groups, international organisms, institutions 
and individuals) ICMI is to adopt, as well as the 
traditional rules on the functioning of its 
organizational structure.

Angel Ruiz, Vice-President of ICMI, angelruizz at racsa.co.cr
http://www.cimm.ucr.ac.cr/aruiz 

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2. ICMI Announcement: Affiliate organizations

It is with great pleasure that ICMI announces 
that the European Society for Research in 
Mathematics Education (ERME) and the 
International Commission for the Study and 
Improvement of Mathematics Teaching (CIEAEM) have 
joined CIAEM to become Affiliate Members of ICMI. 
We welcome the opportunity for collaboration on 
matters of mutual interest.

The possibility for regional organisations with 
parallel aims in mathematics education to become 
affiliated to ICMI was decided by the last 
Executive and formalised in a recent modification 
of ICMI's Terms of Reference. We are delighted 
that three such organisations have agreed to this 
collaborative status, and look forward to 
widening the network in this formal way.

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3. ICMI elections: TRIPLE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

For the second time in its history the election 
of the Executive Committee of the International 
Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) 
will take place during the General Assembly of 
ICMI. The purpose of this message is to launch a 
TRIPLE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS resulting from the 
election procedures in place for ICMI.  Due to 
some delays of which I assume full 
responsability, the deadlines for the various 
nominations have been modified.  Please see 
details below.

The next ICMI General Assembly will be held in 
July 2012 in Seoul, South Korea, on the occasion 
of the 12th International Congress on 
Mathematical Education (ICME-12).  This General 
Assembly will elect the 2013-2016 Executive 
Committee of ICMI.

This Call for nominations is being sent to 
IMU/ICMI member countries Adhering Organization 
(AO), Committee for Mathematics and ICMI 
Representative (when applicable).  However 
nominations should be submitted by the Adhering 
Organization and sent to the Secretary-General of 
ICMI.

1-)  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE ICMI NOMINATING COMMITTEE
DEADLINE:  MARCH 25, 2011

Please follow the following guidelines:
--  Each AO may submit one name to be a Member of 
the ICMI Nominating Committee.  This person 
should have significant knowledge and experience 
of ICMI affairs, cannot work in the same country 
as the President of IMU and the President of ICMI 
--- namely United States and New Zealand ---, and 
cannot be a current member of the ICMI Executive 
Committee.  (This person also cannot work in the 
same country as the Chair of the Nominating 
Committee and the person chosen by the IMU EC, 
but this restriction will be applied at a later 
stage, as these two members of the Nominating 
Committee are at this moment unknown.)
--  All submissions should be sent via e-mail, 
post or fax to the Secretary-General of ICMI (see 
data below).  All e-mail submissions must be sent 
from the official e-mail address of the AO.
--  The deadline for reception of nominations, 
from which a random selection will be made, is 
MARCH 25, 2011.
--  The nomination must be accompanied by the 
proposed candidate's declaration of willingness 
to serve.
--  No member of the ICMI Nominating Committee 
will be eligible to the 2013-2016 ICMI Executive 
Committee.


2-)  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE ICMI PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY-GENERAL
DEADLINE:  APRIL 15, 2011

Please follow the following guidelines:
--  Each AO may submit one name for each of the 
positions of PRESIDENT and SECRETARY-GENERAL of 
ICMI.
--  All submissions should be sent via e-mail, 
post or fax to the Secretary-General of ICMI (see 
data below).  All e-mail submissions must be sent 
from the official e-mail address of the AO.
--  The deadline for reception of nominations is APRIL 15, 2011.
--  A nomination must be accompanied by the 
proposed candidate's CV and declaration of 
willingness to serve if elected.



3-)  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE ICMI VICE-PRESIDENTS AND MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
DEADLINE:  JUNE 1, 2011

Please follow the following guidelines:
--  Each AO may submit one name for each of the 
positions of VICE-PRESIDENT and MEMBER-AT-LARGE 
of ICMI.
--  All submissions should be sent via e-mail, 
post or fax to the Secretary-General of ICMI (see 
data below).  All e-mail submissions must be sent 
from the official e-mail address of the AO.
--  The deadline for reception of nominations is JUNE 1, 2011.
--  A nomination must be accompanied by the 
proposed candidate's CV and declaration of 
willingness to serve if elected.

In order to make this election process of the 
highest quality, each IMU/ICMI member country is 
urged to make nominations for the positions 
mentioned above.

Sincerely,
Jaime Carvalho e Silva
Secretary-General
ICMI-International Commission on Mathematical Instruction
Departamento de Matematica, Universidade de Coimbra
Apartado 3008, EC Universidade, 3001-454 Coimbra, PORTUGAL
Fax: +351-239 793 069
e-mail : jaimecs at mat.uc.pt

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4. Proceedings of the Symposium Celebrating the Centennial of the ICMI

ISTITVTO DELLA ENCICLOPEDIA ITALIANA
FONDATA DA GIOVANNI TRECCANI

The First Century of the International Commission 
on Mathematical Instruction (1908-2008).
Reflecting and Shaping the World of Mathematics Education

Edited by
M. Menghini, F. Furinghetti, L. Giacardi, F. Arzarello

CONTENTS
Introduction
HYMAN BASS, Moments of the life of ICMI
JEREMY KILPATRICK, The development of mathematics 
education as an academic field - Reaction by JEAN 
LUC DORIER
DINA TIROSH and PESSIA TSAMIR, Intuition and 
rigor in mathematics education - Reaction by ALDO 
BRIGAGLIA
MOGENS NISS, Perspectives on the balance between 
application & modelling and "pure" mathematics in 
the teaching and learning of mathematics - 
Reaction by TOSHI IKEDA
JO BOALER, The relationship between research and 
practice in mathematics education: International 
examples of good practice - Reaction by JOAO DA 
PONTE
GERT SCHUBRING, The origins and early incarnations of ICMI
FULVIA FURINGHETTI, MARTA MENGHINI, FERDINANDO 
ARZARELLO, LIVIA GIACARDI, ICMI Renaissance: The 
emergence of new issues in mathematics education
BIENVENIDO NEBRES, Centres and peripheries in 
mathematics education - Reaction by GELSA KNIJNIK
Panel on ICMI's challenges and future: MORTEN BLOMHØJ; MAMOKGETHI SETATI
MICHÈLE ARTIGUE, ICMI: One century at the 
interface between mathematics and mathematics 
education - Reflections and perspectives
BERNARD R. HODGSON, Some views on ICMI at the dawn of its second century

Short Talks (Coordinators Alan Bishop and Lee Peng Yee)
EILEEN F. DONOGHUE - The inception of ICMI: David 
Eugene Smith and the founding of ICTM; ALAN 
BISHOP - The past four decades: consolidation and 
diversification; DEREK HOLTON -  The process of 
an ICMI Study: The teaching and learning of 
mathematics at university level; FREDERICK K.S. 
LEUNG - The significance of the ICMI Study on 
mathematics education in East Asia and the West; 
UBIRATAN D'AMBROSIO - ICMI and its influence in 
Latin America; JILL ADLER - The development of 
AFRICME; CLAUDI ALSINA - What is the impact of 
hosting an ICME for the organizing country? - The 
case of ICME8 in Spain; LIM-TEO SUAT KHOH - ICMI 
Activities in East and Southeast Asia:  Thirty 
years of academic discourse and deliberations

Working Groups - Reports
BILL BARTON & FREDERIC GOURDEAU: Disciplinary 
mathematics and school mathematics; DEBORAH BALL 
& BARBRO GREVHOLM: The professional formation of 
teachers; HILARY POVEY & ROBYN ZEEVENBERGEN: 
Mathematics education and society; MARCELO BORBA 
& MARIOLINA BARTOLINI BUSSI: Resources and 
technology throughout the history of ICMI; GILAH 
LEDER & LUIS RADFORD: Mathematics education: An 
ICMI perspective.

ORDERING THE VOLUME
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5. The Teacher Development Continuum in the United States and China

Summary of a Workshop (2010)
Held in Newport Beach, California, on July 
31-August 2, 2009, the workshop brought together 
about 40 mathematics educators, mathematicians, 
education researchers, and other mathematics 
education specialists from the two countries. 
There were participants from three regions of 
China - Beijing, Shanghai, and Jiangsu Province 
(north of Shanghai), as well as several Chinese 
scholars who now work in the United States. These 
experts on mathematics education discussed 
professional development methods and techniques 
commonly used in their countries.  The workshop 
summary report features invited presentations and 
discussions that focus on the teacher development 
process used in the U.S. and China, and how the 
professional lives of teachers are structured to 
receive ongoing professional development.

For More Information
Copies of The Teacher Development Continuum in 
the United States and China Summary of a 
Workshop are available from The National 
Academies Press; call (800) 624-6242 or (202) 
334-3313 (in the Washington metropolitan area), 
or visit the NAP website at
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12874 .
To view the Report in Brief, please use the link
http://image.newsletters.nas.edu/lib/fef61279766502/m/1/TheTeacherDevelopmentContinuum.pdf
For more information on the project, contact 
staff at (202) 334-2807 or visit the U.S. 
National Committee on Mathematics Instruction 
website at 
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/biso/ICMI/.

Ana M. Ferreras, National Academy of Sciences, AFerreras at nas.edu

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6. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community

CERME 2011 - Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics
Rzeszow, Poland, February 9-13, 2011
http://www.cerme7.univ.rzeszow.pl/

4th International Conference on Science and 
Mathematics Education in Developing Countries, 
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 23-25 February 2011
http://www.cambmathsociety.org/conf/HOME.html

Conference on Research in Undergraduate 
Mathematics Education, February 24, - February 
27, 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA
http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/crume2011/Home.html

History of European Universities.  Challenges and 
transformations, Lisbon, Portugal, April 18-20, 
2011
http://centenario.ul.pt/conferencias/history-of-european-universities

XIII CIAEM - Inter-American Conference on Mathematics Education
Recife, Brasil, June 26-30, 2011.
http://www.ciaem-iacme.org/

ICTMT10 - 10th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching
University of Portsmouth, July 5-8, 2011
http://www.ictmt10.org/

FAMA - Family Math for adult learners 
international conference: "Family and communities 
in and out of the classroom: ways to improve 
mathematics' achievement", Barcelona, Spain, July 
23, 2011
http://www.mathforlive.net/fama_Conference.php

CIEAEM 63:  "Facilitating access and 
participation - Mathematical practices inside and 
outside the classroom" / "Faciliter l'accès et la 
participation - Les pratiques mathématiques à 
l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la classe", 
University of Barcelona, Spain, July 24 - July 
29, 2011
http://www.cieaem.net/

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

16e Ecole d'été de didactique des mathématiques - 
Association pour la Recherche en Didactique des 
Mathématiques, Carcassonne (Aude), France, August 
21-28, 2011
http://www.ardm.eu/contenu/2011-carcassonne

The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century 
Project 11th International Conference, Turning 
Dreams into Reality: Transformations and Paradigm 
Shifts in Mathematics Education, Rhodes 
University, Grahamstown, South Africa, September 
11-17, 2011
http://math.unipa.it/%7Egrim/21project.htm

ECER 2011 - European Conference on Educational 
Research, Berlin, September 13-16, 2011
http://www.eera-ecer.eu/ecer/ecer-2011-berlin/

ICMI Study 21 Conference
São Paulo, Brazil, September 16-20, 2011
http://www.icmi-21.com/

ATCM 2011 - 16th Asian Technology Conference of 
Mathematics, 'Integration of Technology into 
Mathematics Education-past, present and future', 
Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey, 
September 19-23, 2011
http://atcm2011.org/

Volcanic DELTA 2011, Eighth Southern Hemisphere 
Conference on the Teaching and Learning of 
Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics, 
Rotorua, NZ, November 27 - December 2, 2011
http://www.delta2011.co.nz/delta2011/

Seventh International Conference on Science, 
Mathematics & Technology Education: 
Transformations through Science, Mathematics and 
Technology Education - Towards an Innovative and 
Sustainable Society,  Muscat, Oman, February 
12-15, 2012
d.fisher at smec.curtin.edu.au

EMF 2012 - Espace Mathématique Francophone, Genève, 3-7 Février 2012
http://www.emf2012.unige.ch/

ICME-12 - Twelfth International Congress on Mathematical Education
Seoul, Korea, July 8-15, 2012
http://www.icme12.org/

EARCOME6 - The Sixth East Asia Regional 
Conference on Mathematics Education, Thailand, 
March, 2013

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