Future Conferences

The Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME) conference of 1999 will be held at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, 25-30 July 1999. The Conference Chair is Orit Zaslavski. A special session will be held in memory of Efraim Fischbein, first President of PME, who died in July 1998. More information about the program can be obtained on the Internet home page of the conference

http:/ edu.technion.ac.il/conference/pme23

or from the Executive Secretary of PME

Dr. Joop van Dormolen

Rehov Harofeh 48 Aleph,

34367 Haifa

ISRAEL

The 9th International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling and Applications, ICTMA 9, will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 30 July - 3 August 1999. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for the presenttion and exchange of information, experiences, opinions and ideas relating to the teaching, learning and assessment of mathematcal modelling, mathematical models and applications of mathematics. People engaged in research or practice in these topics at secondary and higher levels of education are invited to participate, present papers or conduct workshops. There will also be provision for those who would like to make a poster presentation of work in progress or of smaller scope than would warrant a full paper or workshop.

For further information, please consult

http:/www.fc.ul.pt/educacao/ictma9

or the Chair of the Programme Committee,

Professor João Filipe Matos

Departamento de Educação, Faculdade de Ciências

Universidade de Lisboa

Campo Grande C1

1700 Lisboa, PORTUGAL

fax: +351 1 7500082

e-mail: joao.matos@fc.ul.pt or ictma9@fc.ul.pt

The Tenth Conferencia Interamericana de Educación Matemática (CIAEM) will be held August 8-14, 1999 in Piriapolis, Uruguay, (90 km from Montevideo) on the theme Educación Matemática para un mundo mejor. Among the topics on the program are the education of teachers of all levels, ethnomathematics, the teaching of geometry and the use of information technology for the improvement of mathematics education. Information can be obtained from the General Coordinator,

Prof. Alicia Villar

Instituto de Profesores ARTIGAS

Avda. Rivera 5760 C.P. 11400

Montevideo, Uruguay

fax: +598 2 6001275

The International Symposium on Elementary Mathematics Teaching - SEMT 99 - will be held at the Faculty of Education of the Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic, 22-27 August 1999. The programme will be focused on the teaching of mathematics to children within the age range 6-11 years. More specifically, the theme of the conference is "How the world of mathematics emerges from everday experiences of children".

The symposium will consist of plenary sessions, workshops, presentation of papers, working groups, discussion groups and poster presentations. Workshops will be organized across three sessions.

For further information, please consult

http:/www.pedf.cuni.cz/k_mdm

or contact the Organizing Committee, at

SEMT 99

Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Education

Faculty of Education, Charles University

M.D.Rettigové 4

116 39 Praha 1, The CZECH REPUBLIC

e-mail: jarmila.novotna@pedf.cuni.cz

The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project, coordinated by Dr. Manmohan S. Arora, Mathematics Resources & Technology Center, Clark Atlanta University, USA, is planning a series of International Conferences to be held throughout the World and leading into the next millennium. The first of these will be in Egypt in cooperation with the Third World Forum, chaired by Prof. Ismail-Sabri Abdalla (Egypt). The conference is entitled International Conference on Mathematics Education into the 21st Century: Societal Challenges, Issues and Approaches and will be held in Cairo from November 14-18, 1999. The sub-themes of the conference are " The impact of new developments in knowledge on mathematics education", "Societal conditions", "Information technology and society" and "Classroom practice".

For further information, please contact the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee:

Prof. Fayez M. Mina

Faculty of Education

Ain Shams University

Cairo, Egypt

or

Dr. Alan Rogerson

22 Violet Grove

Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia

e-mail: arogerso@mgs.vic.edu.au

The Fourth Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics (ACTM’99) will be held at the Guangzhou Normal University (China) on December 17-21, 1999. The main theme of the conference is Applications of Technology in Mathematics Research and Teaching for the 21st Century. ATCM'99 will provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and teachers in education, mathematics and mathematical sciences, together with researchers and developers of computer technology, to present their results in using computer technology and exchange ideas and information in their latest development. The conference will cover a broad range of topics on the relevancy of technology in mathematical research and teaching. These include but are not limited to: computer-aided teaching in mathematical sciences; computer algebra (systems) in research and teaching; multimedia and distance learning; graphing calculators; mathematical research and teaching using technology; numerical analysis.

Information can be found on the webpage

http:/www.cs.runet.edu/~atcm/ATCM99/

The 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Mathematics Education will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, on January 7-9, 2000. The conference will consist of several sessions covering multiple themes under the general topic of Mathematics Education. Parallel to the conference there will be a Mathematics Festival with activities for students, including a mini Mathematics Olympiad. Official languages of the Conference are Greek and English.

Information can be found at the web page

http:/www.kutzler.com/medconf2000-mathedu/

or by contacting

e-mail: cms@cyearn.pi.ac.cy

The Mathematics 2000 Festival is Australia's contribution to World Mathematical Year 2000. An initiative of ASICMI, the Australian Sub-Committee of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, with the support of many mathematics-related associations, it will be held 10-14 January 2000 at the University of Melbourne. It aims to celebrate the role and importance of mathematics in society at this significant time. Sessions will portray the fascination of mathematics, outline important trends in mathematics and its uses now and for the future, increase awareness of careers involving mathematics and provide teachers at all levels with a range of up-to-date applications to enrich their teaching during World Mathematical Year. Keynote speakers include Professor Sir Roger Penrose, author of The Emperor's New Mind, creator of the famous Penrose tilings and joint winner with Stephen Hawking of the Wolf Prize for Physics.

The Festival caters for primary, secondary and tertiary teachers, a wide spectrum of professional users of mathematics and statistics, students and interested members of the public. Sessions will also be offered for students from Year 10 and above. Themes of presentations include "Applications of mathematics in the modern world" (e.g. sport, finance, music, computers, engineering; etc), "Teaching mathematics in the twenty-first century", "Mathematical magic, amusements, puzzles, challenges and advances" or "Where is mathematics going in the twenty-first century?". A Mathematics Trail and Festival sessions will feature spaces and structures of mathematical interest in the City of Melbourne. You are invited to present a paper on one of the Festival themes. The conference proceedings will contain two sections, one of which is for refereed papers. Requirements for submitting papers are detailed on the Festival website.

For further information, please visit the Festival website:

http:/www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/DSME/maths2000

or contact

Terry Beeby

Department of Science and Mathematics Education

University of Melbourne

Parkville VICTORIA 3052 Australia

tel: (03) 9344 8553

email: t.beeby@edfac.unimelb.edu.au

Alhambra 2000, July 2000

Organized as a satellite activity of the 3rd European Congress of Mathematicians (see below), this joint Mathematical European-Arabic Conference will be held in Granada, Spain, on July 3-7, 2000, and offers an opportunity of a meeting between mathematicians from every European-Arabic culture. Among the themes of the meeting is the History of European and Arabic Mathematics and Mathematicians, which will deal with historical perspectives on contributions of both cultures to the present mathematical knowledge, and also will discuss the state of the more relevant mathematical concepts over the centuries and the way they have evolved. Another tentative theme is Public Mathematics.

For information, contact Ceferino Ruiz (Universidad de Granada) at alhambra2000@ugr.es or visit the website

http:/www.ugr.es/~alhambra2000/

cem 2000, July 2000

Organized as a satellite activity of the 3rd European Congress of Mathematicians (see below), the Congrés d'Educació Matemàtica (cem 2000), I Jornades d'Educació a Catalunya, will be held in Mataró, Spain, on July 3-5 or 5-7, 2000. This meeting is organized by the Federació d'Entitats per a l'Ensenyament de les Matemàtiques (FEEMCAT). More information can be obtained from Xavier Vilella (FEEMCAT) at xvilella@pie.xtec.es.

The Third European Congress of Mathematics (3ecm) will be held in Barcelona, Spain, 10-14 July, 2000. Information can be obtained by contacting the congress Secretariat at the address

Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques

Institut d’Estudis Catalans

Carrer del Carme, 47

E-08001 Barcelona, SPAIN

fax: +34 93 270 11 80

e-mail: 3ecm@iec.es

or by visiting the websites

http:/www.iec.es/3ecm/ or http:/www.si.upc.es/3ecm/

The 4th International DERIVE / TI-92 / TI-89 Conference will be held July 12-15, 2000 in Liverpool, UK. Information can be obtained from

Terence Etchells

e-mail: T.A.Etchells@livjm.ac.uk

On the occasion of the World Mathematical Year 2000, the French Sub-commission for ICMI (Commission française pour l’enseignement des mathématiques) announces the symposium EM 2000 (Espace Mathématique 2000) to be held in Grenoble (France) from July 15 to 17, 2000, on the theme L’enseignement des mathématiques dans les pays francophones au XXe siècle et ses perspectives pour le début du XXIe siècle. This meeting has been recognized as an ICMI Regional Conference. Participation is especially solicited from all francophone countries and countries where French is related, at least partially, to mathematics education.

An international program committee has identified ten sub-themes for the conference, dealing among others with issues such as pedagogical methods, assessment, evolution of curricula in the 20th century, integration of young teachers in the school reality, mathematical games and competitions, the relationship between mathematics and informatics, mathematics and others disciplines or mathematics as a lifelong cultural element.

Further information can be obtained on the website

http:/www-leibniz.imag.fr/EM2000

or by contacting the Chair of the program committee,

Pierre Jullien

e-mail: pjullien@newsup.univ-mrs.fr.

Written material should be sent to

EM 2000

IUFM

30 avenue Marcelin Berthelot

38100 Grenoble, France

The 9th International Congress on Mathematical Education, ICME-9, is going to be held 31 July - 6 August 2000, at the Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari, and at the Chiba Institute of Technology. These sites are located between the center of Tokyo and Tokyo International Airport (Narita). Further information can be found in the paper An Interim Announcement of ICME-9 appearing on pp. 24-31 of this Bulletin and written by Hiroshi Fujita, President of the National Organizing Committee for ICME-9 and Chair of the International Program Committee. One can also consult the website

http:/www.ma.kagu.sut.ac.jp/~icme9/