Conferences are important events in professional life. On this page, I will store information and links to forthcoming and recent conferences of interest to me and others with an interest in mathematics education.
Eleventh International Congress on Mathematics Education(ICME-11)
The Eleventh International
Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-11) will be held in Monterrey,
Mexico, on July 6-13, 2008. This is the major international gathering of
mathematics education, held every four years. The congress will have
between 3000 and 4000 professionals from 100 countries; delagets will
include researchers, educators and teachers. The congress aims to show
what is happening in mathematics education worldwide, in terms of
research as well as teaching practices; discuss the problems of
mathematics education around the world, and learn about recent advances
in mathematics as a discipline.
Asian Technology Conference on Mathematics (ATCM)
This annual
conference provides a forum for those interested in the place of
technology in mathematics and in mathematics education, particularly in
the South East and East Asian regions. Previous conferences have been
held in Singapore; Penang; Tsukuba City, Japan; Guangzhou, China; Chiang
Mai, Thailand; Melbourne; Melaka; Hsin-Chu, Taiwan; Singapore; South
Korea; Hong Kong; and Taipei. The next
conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2008. I am a
member of the International Program Committee for this conference and a
regular presenter.
Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT)
This
biennial conference is the premier event of the Australian Association
of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) and offers a wide range of professional
activities for members and others. The most recent conferences were held
in Sydney (2005) and Hobart (2007). The next conference will be in Fremantle in July 2009.
The Mathematical Association of Victoria (MAV)
The MAV holds a large
annual conference early in December, attended by many Victorian teachers
and others from outside Victoria. The next conference will be in Melbourne in
December 2004 with the theme of Towards Excellence in
Mathematics. Conference Proceedings are usually available for
purchase after the conference. See the MAV website for details.
Mathematical Association of Western Australia (MAWA)
This annual
conference for teachers of mathematics is widely regarded as amongst the
best in Australia, offering a wide variety of professional development
workshops and activities for primary and secondary mathematics Members
and other teachers. The MAWA conference has been held for the past
several years in Bunbury, a coastal city south of Perth, so that the
majority of participants are resident at the conference. Detailed
information about this and other MAWA professional
development activities are available from the MAWA website.
Mathematical Association of New South Wales (MANSW)
MANSW is the
major organisation for mathematics teachers in New South Wales, and
holds an annual conference. The annual
conference is usually held in September. In 2004, the conference was
at Mudgee. I was invited to give a keynote presentation to the Leura
conference in 2001, in the Blue Mountains just west of Sydney. My
keynote presentation is available here for
viewing.
The Mathematical Association of South Australia (MASA)
MASA conference in 2004
was held in Adelaide in April
2004 with the theme of Juggling with Mathematics. I was a keynote
speaker at this conference; my presentation is available for downloading
as a pdf of size 260K.
International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics (Crete)
Following the
very successful 1st International Conference on the Teaching of
Mathematics (Samos, Greece, July 1998), the 2nd International Conference
addressed new ways of teaching undergraduate mathematics. The conference
was held on Crete, Greece, on July 1-6, 2002. It provided a unique forum
bringing together faculty from countries with varied educational systems
who are committed to introducing innovative teaching methods and new
pedagogies.
SCE 2006 - International Seminar on Symbolic Computation in
Education (SCE 2006)
This informal seminar provided a forum for foreign and Chinese
researchers, educators, and other experts actively involved or
interested in developing, using, and practicing methods and software
tools of symbolic computation for education to exchange ideas and views,
to discuss teaching philosophy and pedagogical techniques, to present
research and experiments, and to build up contacts for future
cooperation. The scientific program of the seminar will feature invited
talks and short presentations. I gave one of the invited
talks. The seminar was in Beijing, China, April 12-14, 2006
New Zealand Association of Mathematics Teachers (NZAMT)
The NZAMT is the major
mathematics teaching body in New Zealand. The ninth biennial conference will be held in
Christchurch, New Zealand in September of 2005, with the theme of
'Thinking outside the square'.
The seventh biennial conference was held in Wellington, New Zealand in July of 2001, with the theme of 'A Maths Odyssey'. I was invited as a mini-plenary speaker and also conducted some workshops for delegates. My plenary presentation is available here for viewing.
International Mathematics Conference
A conference in Egypt in 1999 was the first of
several planned conferences over the next few years. These are organised
by the Mathematics into the
Twenty-First Century group. The next conferences were in Palm
Cove, North Queensland; Sicily; Brno, Czech Republic and Poland. There
are tentative plans for a conference in 2005 in South-east Asia; to get
more information about the conference, send an email to Alan Rogerson, a key
member of the International Programme Committee.
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)
MERGA holds an annual
conference around July. In 2004, the MERGA 27 conference was in
Townsville, while MERGA 28 will be held in Melbourne. The focus of the
conferences are research in mathematics education, there are many
interesting opportunities there also for teachers.
Tenth International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME-10)
The International
Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) organises
an ICME every four years. The Executive Committee of ICMI accepted an
invitation received from the Danish ICMI Committee to hold the 10th
International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-10) in
Copenhagen, Denmark, in July, 2004. This invitation was presented on
behalf of the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and
Sweden, which agreed to support the holding of ICME-10 in Copenhagen and
to combine efforts in providing the Congress with a distinctive Nordic
flavor. Visit the website for more details.
Ninth International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME-9)
The
previous ICME congress was in Makuhari, Japan from July 31 to August 6,
2000. (Makuhari is in Tokyo, about half way between the downtown area
and Narita International Airport - about 40 km from central Tokyo.)
Together with Professor Rolf Biehler of Germany, I was involved in the
congress as a Co-Chief Organiser of Working Group
11, the focus of which was technology in mathematics education,
specifically: Computers, calculators and IT media.
Eighth International Congress on Mathematics Education
(ICME-8)
The previous ICME was in Seville, Spain in 1996. My
main involvement was in Topic Group 18, in which Marian Kemp, Jen
Bradley and myself presented a paper on assessment with graphics
calculators. The complete set of conference papers from this part of ICME-8 is
available on the web.
Time 2000 (TIME)
This International Conference on Technology in
Mathematics Education was held in Auckland, New Zealand during World Mathematics Year 2000
on 11-14th December 2000, hosted by The University of Auckland and
Auckland Institute of Technology. The Conference focussed upon the uses
of technology in, but not limited to, problem solving, teaching,
assessment, distance education, research and learning. My invited
plenary address to this conference is available on my publications page.
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
(PME)
There is an annual PME conference, at which many research
papers are presented and for which the Proceedings are usually
available for purchase.The 2005 conference is in July in Melbourne
Finding conference information
The AAMT maintains an up to date list of relevant
conferences of interest to mathematics teachers. Links to various
mathematics education conferences are also provided at Acadia
University. The NCTM
Conferences link is useful if you are near the USA. The ICMI
Bulletins have a section concerned with upcoming conferences. PME also keep
a register of forthcoming conferences, including of course PME's own
conference. See also Bernhard Kutzler's searchable 'Events' listings.
Last updated 1 October 2004
