Section 18: Teaching and Popularization of Mathematics

ICM'98

Section 18: Teaching and Popularization of Mathematics

Mariolina Bartolini Bussi: Università di Modena, Italy.
Mogens Niss: Roskilde University, Denmark.
James Stigler: UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
CANCELLED

A debate on teaching the first years of university mathematics:

George Eyre Andrews

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA.

D. J. Lewis (moderator)

NSF, Arlington, USA.

David Alexander Smith

Duke University, Durham, USA.

A session which focusses on how students learn mathematics and how, correspondingly, it might best be taught. Format: 30 minute talk with a 15 minute repsonse:

Michele Artigue (speaker)

Université de Paris 7, France.

Hans-Georg Steiner (respondent)

Universität Bielefeld, Germany.

A roundtable on difficulties in the passage from secondary to tertiary education:

Miguel de Guzman

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Bernard R. Hodgson

Université Laval, Québec, Canada.

Aline Robert

Université de Paris 7, France.

Vinicio Villani (moderator)

Università degli Studii di Pisa, Italy.

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