[Maths-Education] Symbolic Cognition

[Stephen Hegedus]

This is an announcement of the discussion group in Symbolic Cognition in
Advanced Mathematics to be held at PME25 in Utrecht next week. The main aim
of facilitating such a discussion group is to assimilate interest in the
area based around the following issues:

1. The role of symbol in mathematical thought and meaning making;
2. Syntactic progression from the evolution of signs into symbols;
3. The historic consequence of sociological devices which enable
constructive meaning for symbolic development;
4. Emerging theories of symbolic cognition in the fields of mathematical
psychology and neuroscience;
5. Discussion of symbolic processing with reference to specific mathematical
topics, i.e. in addition to limits, functions, calculus, analysis, linear
algebra develop topics in abstract algebra, topology,
probability/statistics, etc.

Further details of the group including a pre-session reading list for those
interested in attending can be found at:
http://merg.umassd.edu/pme25

Discussion will be initiated by some short statements by chosen speakers and
reactions to the specified reading.

All are welcome in attending this newly formed group. Please contact me
directly for further information and possible contributions to the group.

Developments of the discussion will be provided in later postings.
Many thanks
Stephen
-- 
Stephen J. Hegedus, BSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics,
University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
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