The kick-off workshop of CANP called “Escuela seminario internacional Construcción de Capacidades en Matemáticas y Educación Matemática” was held for 2 weeks in August, 2012 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
The event brought together 67 researchers and educators from Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Mexico, Cuba and Costa Rica which included 23 different conferences, courses, forums and symposia while focusing on important themes in Mathematics and Mathematics Education.
Two Week workshop to initiate CANP 2011
The UK comprises four independent curriculum authorities - one for each of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. In all bar Scotland the school curriculum is based on “key stages??? which roughly translate as ages 4-7, 7-11, 11-14 and 14-16. The compulsory curriculum ends at age 16 although the majority of students in all four countries elect to continue post compulsory education beyond that age.
There is no national curriculum in the United States.
Each of the 50 states has its own standards that specify the mathematical knowledge and skills that students are expected to learn in each grade (K-8) or grade band or course (9-12) (it depends on the state).
The question of how to teach the standards, i.e. the question of implementation, is the question of curriculum, and this is chosen by each school district. There are roughly 18,000 public school districts in the US, and as well students may be in a private school or be home-schooled.
Turkish Educational Context
The ICMI Representative for Switzerland is the chair of the ICMI sub-commission within the Swiss Mathematical Society (the IMU adhering organization). The delegates to this commission represent the linguistic diversity of Switzerland.
Curriculum for the compulsory school (year 0-9) and pre-school
www.skolverket.se/publikationer
Curriculum for Upper Secondary School (year 10-12)
www.skolverket.se/polopoly_fs/1.174554!/Menu/article/attachment/Mathematics..pdf
The agency that are in charge of these is The Swedish National Agency for Education
The link page for the South African curriculum documents is:
www.education.gov.za (all education documents)
Curriculum documents:
www.education.gov.za/Curriculum/Curriculum.asp
There are however unfortunately often access errors on these sites. Sometimes then it helps to go through the Thuthong Education portal:
Mellony Graven