The ICMI (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction) promotes global collaboration and excellence in mathematics education through international programs and research.
The IPC-International Programme Committee of ICMI Study 22 on Task Design is having (January 9 and 10) a meeting at Oxford University in order to prepare the Discussion Document for this Study and also prepare the Study Conference that will take place in 2013. The IPC is
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The Hans Freudenthal Medal for 2011 goes to
Luis Radford, Université Laurentienne, Sudbury, Canada
The Felix Klein Medal for 2011 goes to
Alan H. Schoenfeld, University of California at Berkeley, USA
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The document "Les défis de l'enseignement des mathématiques dans
l'éducation de base" has been published by UNESCO and is available here:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001917/191776f.pdf
The english version of this document is availabe also on the UNESCO website:
The two week workshop will held from August 06-17, 2012 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
The Mathematics Education Network of Central America and the Caribbean has been created.
Between 6 and 17 August 2012 in San Jose, Costa Rica, was carried out with great success the Escuela seminario internacional Construcción de Capacidades en Matemáticas y Educación Matemática: CANP Costa Rica 2012.
The second workshop of the CANP Programme in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ecole de Didactique et de Mathématiques, EDiMaths) will be held in Sénégal at the Faculté des Sciences et Technologies de l’Education et de la Formation (FASTEF) de l’Université Cheikh Anta de Dakar from September 11-16, 2012.
The topic of the school is Dimensions culturelle et historique des mathématiques dans la formation des enseignants. »
Report: "La Formation des Enseignants en Afrique Francophone Sub-Saharienne Cinq Etudes de Cas : Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Sénégal" is now available for download in French.
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