ICMI Study 22: Task Design

The Study Chairs are Anne Watson and Minoru Ohtani.

The Study Conference was held July 22nd to July 26th 2013 at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.

Proceedings of the ICMI Study 18 Conference and IASE 2008 Round Table Conference (Joint ICMI/IASE Study Statistics in School Mathematics. Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education). Editors: Carmen Batanero, Gail Burrill, Chris Reading and Allan Rossman. ISBN: 978-90-73592-28-5:

30 June- 4 July 2008, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico

15th ICMI Study Conference:

The Professional Education and Development of Teachers of Mathematics

Each ICMI Study addresses an issue or topic of particular significance in contemporary mathematical education, and is conducted by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners in that domain appointed by the Executive Committee of ICMI.

A major responsibility of ICMI is to plan for the quadrennial International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME). ICME is the largest international conference on mathematics education. The ICMEs were launched in 1969 in Lyon, France, at the initiative of ICMI President Hans Freudenthal (1905-1990) and have been held since then in leap years. ICMEs are the meeting point for mathematics educators, curriculum developers, mathematicians, researchers in mathematics education, teachers, teacher educators and resource producers.

The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction was established at the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians held in Rome in 1908. It was initiated to support a widespread interest among mathematicians in school education. The Rome Congress adopted a resolution, submitted on the initiative of the American mathematician, teacher, educator and historian of mathematics, David Eugene Smith (1860-1944), creating an International Commission with the initial mandate of making a comparative study on the methods and plans of teaching mathematics at secondary schools