The Conference for Study 21 'Mathematics Education and Language Diversity' just began in Aguas de Lindoia, São Paulo, Brazil.

At first, co-chairs Mamokgethi Setati (South Africa) and Maria do Carmo Domite (Brazil) said in a few words which was the goal of the conference, the preparation of the StudyBook. Then the Conference began with a plenary talk by linguist Marilyn Martin-Jones that gave a good idea to all present of the more recent tools and trends linguists use to analyze language diversity.

CANP/ EDIMATHS Press Release Mali 2011

Developing mathematics teacher educators for the sub-region of Francophone West Africa

The IPC decided to postpone the submission deadline of papers to TSGs due to the late production of the Third Announcement of ICME-12.

Report on the first implementation of CANP "Capacity and Networking Programme in the Mathematical Sciences": School EDiMaths

The school EDiMaths, which is the first implementation of project CANP "Capacity and Networking Programme in the Mathematical Sciences", a joint program of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (

Poster Deadline Postponed(December 31, 2011)

IPC of ICME-12 has determined to prolong the deadline for the proposal submission of Poster until December 31, 2011 in order to give ICME-12 potential participants more chance to submit Poster proposals.

Originally the deadline was December 15, 2011.

Date of proposal acceptance notification is same as January 15, 2012.

As reported earlier, the Executive Committee of ICMI has received by November 2010 three bids for hosting ICME-13 in 2016, namely (in alphabetical order) from

--  Czech Republic (Prague)
--  Germany  (Hamburg)
--  South Africa  (Durban)

This is an opportunity for one or more researchers to continue the ICMI Database project.

Pipeline Researcher & Individual Country Data Collectors.

This is an opportunity for one or more researchers to continue the IMU/ICMI Pipeline project.