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Sponsor: ICMI, University of Geneva
Homepage: http://www.unige.ch/math/EnsMath/EM_en/annonce.html
Email: EnsMath@math.unige.ch
Organizers: Daniel Coray (Switzerland), Fulvia Furinghetti (Italy), Hélène Gispert (France), Bernard R. Hodgson (Canada), Gert Schubring (Germany)
Description:
The well-known international journal L’Enseignement Mathématique was established in 1899 by Henri Fehr and Charles
Laisant. The idea of internationalism in mathematics education, crucial to the journal right from its beginning, led a few years
later to the creation of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction during the 1908 International Congress of
Mathematicians in Rome. L’Enseignement Mathématique has been the official organ of ICMI ever since that time. During
these one hundred years, mathematics education has undergone profound changes marked by decisive developments in the
evolution of mathematics and in the organization and structure of the school systems throughout the world.
On the occasion of the centennial of the journal, it was felt appropriate to hold a symposium with the aims of looking at the evolution of mathematics education over the last century and identifying some guidelines and trends for the future, taking into account, among other sources, the documents, debates and related papers having appeared in L’Enseignement Mathématique. The emphasis of the symposium is on secondary education (students in the age range of about 12 to 18 or 19 years). In addition to proposing a reflection on the history of mathematics education and the evolution of mathematics and its teaching and learning in the 20th century, the symposium also gives the opportunity of a gathering of some of the main actors, during the last decades, in mathematics education as considered from an international perspective. The symposium should thus be seen as an international meeting of all those interested in mathematics education and its evolution.
Organized jointly by ICMI and the University of Geneva as a contribution to the celebration of the World Mathematical Year 2000, this symposium will take place in Geneva, the home of the journal since its birth, from Friday October 20 to Sunday October 22, 2000. The theme of the meeting is
One Hundred Years of L’Enseignement Mathématique: Moments of Mathematics Education in the 20th Century
The program of the symposium is based on a series of invited talks. Among the themes are:
issues in mathematics education at the time the journal was born; evolutions and permanences in the needs, practices and issues in the teaching of geometry, analysis, and applications of mathematics over the last century; stakes in mathematics education yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Mail Address:
Local Organizing Committee Symposium EM-ICMI Case postale 240 CH-1211 Genève 24, Suisse
Submitted by: Helene Gispert
Date received: May 19, 2000
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