The ICMI (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction) promotes global collaboration and excellence in mathematics education through international programs and research.
The ICMI Awards Committee is issuing a call for nominations of candidates for the 2009 Felix Klein and Hans Freudenthal Awards.
A proposal has to be accompanied by a summary presenting the vita and the achievements of person nominated, as well as the reasons for the nomination. Moreover, nominations also have to include the names and coordinates of two or three persons from whom the committee may seek further information.
The international Design Team for the Klein Project, appointed jointly by IMU and ICMI in 2008, met recently. A progress report has been prepared after this meeting which can be accessed on this site. It contains a call for input as well as the announcement of a mailing list specifically connected to the project.
The Executive Committee of ICMI is pleased to announce the opening of the ICMI Digital Library. This project aims at eventually making available freely online all the documents related to ICMI and its activities, including material such as the ICMI Study volumes or the Proceedings of the International Congresses on Mathematical Education.
The International Programme Committee of the joint ICMI/ICIAM Study (ICMI Study 20) on Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry (EIMI) announces that the deadline for submitting contributions to the Study has been extended from September 15 until OCTOBER 15, 2009.
The EIMI Study Conference will be held in Lisbon on April 19-23, 2010.
Thailand, which was a member of ICMI since 1996, but not as a member of IMU, has just acquired the status of IMU Associate Member. Information about the Thailand Adhering Organization to IMU can be found on the IMU website.
The full list of all member countries of ICMI can be accessed under the section about the Members of ICMI on this site.
The Study Volume resulting from the 17th ICMI Study has just appeared in the New ICMI Study Series (NISS):
Celia Hoyles and Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (Eds.)
Mathematics Education and Technology - Rethinking the Terrain: The 17th ICMI Study.
New ICMI Study Series, Vol. 13
Springer, 2010.
Following a series of discussions between the Executive Committees of ICMI and IMU, 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 Comité Inter-Americano 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.
The First Announcement of ICME-12 has just been issued by the congress organizers and can be dowloaded from here.
The ICME-12 congress will be held in Seoul, Korea, on July 8-15, 2012.