From Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Feb 11 11:12:42 2013 From: Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk (Peter Gates) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:12:42 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) In-Reply-To: <9970D18CE610834EA6CA66386597C02FD8B644DFD2@edwardiii.rsnet.local> References: <9970D18CE610834EA6CA66386597C02FD8B644DFD2@edwardiii.rsnet.local> Message-ID: Last week the UK Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) published an open call for new committee members. Please find this information on the ACME website at: http://www.acme-uk.org/news/news-items-repository/2013/2/acme-open-call-for-members-2013 We are keen to circulate the call for members to as wide an audience as possible. Kid regards Nicola Berkley ACME Policy Advisor T +44 20 7451 2575 The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG royalsociety.org Registered Charity No 207043 Dr Peter Gates Centre for Research in Mathematics Education School of Education University of Nottingham From D.K.Jones at soton.ac.uk Mon Feb 11 14:55:15 2013 From: D.K.Jones at soton.ac.uk (Jones D.K.) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:55:15 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] ICTMT-11 deadline extended to 22 February Message-ID: <5A5A76258A69AF499C3C136F4CF8945A43D9AE02@UOS-MSG00041-SI.soton.ac.uk> Colleagues Please see below for confirmation that the deadline for submission to ICTMT-11 has been extended to Friday 22 February. Best wishes Keith -------------- Latest publications: Watson, A., Jones, K. & Pratt, D. (2013), Key Ideas in Teaching Mathematics: Research-based guidance for ages 9-19. Oxford University Press. Available through bookstores, or direct from Oxford University Press at: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199665518.do [for 20% discount code, enter promo code: AAFLY4] Jones. K., Geraniou, E. & Tiropanis, T. (2013), Patterns of collaboration: towards learning mathematics in the era of the semantic web. In D. Martinovic, V. Freiman & Z. Karadag (Eds), Visual Mathematics and Cyberlearning (chapter 1, pp. 1-21). New York: Springer. http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/learning+%26+instruction/book/978-94-007-2320-7 --------------- ICTMT-11, 9-12 July 2013, Bari (Italy) The 11th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching ICTMT-11 takes place in Bari (Italy) from 9-12 July 2013 The ICTMT conferences bring together lecturers, teachers, educators, curriculum designers, mathematics education researchers, learning technologists and educational software designers, who share an interest in improving the quality of teaching and learning by effective use of technology. It provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in this field to discuss and share better practices, theoretical know-how, innovation and perspectives on educative technologies and their impact on the teaching and learning of mathematics. Submission of Proposal: the deadline has been extended to February 22nd 2013 For more information, see: http://www.dm.uniba.it/ictmt11/ From phillip.kent at gmail.com Tue Feb 12 12:13:39 2013 From: phillip.kent at gmail.com (Phillip Kent) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:13:39 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] =?iso-8859-1?q?Maths-Art_seminars_at_London_Knowledge_Lab=2C_14_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?February=3A_Francisco_Gonz=E1lez_Redondo=2C_=27On_the_Orig?= =?iso-8859-1?q?in_of_Mathematics_and_Art_in_Prehistoric_Times=27?= References: Message-ID: <1360671219.16259.5.camel@phillipkent-macbook> ** PLEASE CIRCULATE ** ALL WELCOME ** ON THE ORIGIN OF MATHEMATICS AND ART IN PREHISTORIC TIMES An LKL Maths-Art Seminar by Francisco Gonz?lez Redondo Thursday 14th February 2013, 6.00 - 7.30pm According to the standard view, the history of Art begins in the Upper Palaeolithic era, in the Aurignacian period in Europe, roughly 40,000 years ago. By that time, our ancestors had developed the capability of symbolic thinking, an indicator of behavioural modernity that constituted a significant revolution. But together with horses, deer, goats, bison and mammoths painted on walls (Parietal Art), carved on stone or engraved on bone artifacts (Portable Art), we also find abstract paintings and engravings which contain non-representational graphic marks which can only be understood from a very specific point of view: Mathematics. Indeed, the interpretation of such symbolic register as tallies, calendars, astronomical notations, mnemonic devices and, even, cardinal and ordinal numbers, is experiencing increasing acceptance among archaeologists. In this Seminar we will witness how those first artists, members of our same species, with our same mental capabilities, registered both their artistic and mathematical thinking. FRANCISCO A. GONZ?LEZ REDONDO is qualified in mathematics, philosophy of science (PhD 1992), and history of mathematics, science and technology (PhD 2000). He has published more than 100 articles and books in the historical field. Since 1993 he is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Madrid's Complutense University. TIME: 6.00 to 7.30pm PLACE: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS [Travel information & maps at: http://bit.ly/LKL-MathsArt-venue ] Next seminars: 14 March: Niloy Mitra (University College London); 11 April: Seminar/workshop on Mobius strips by Simon Morgan and John Sharp *LKLMathsArt on YouTube: Archive of videos from the Maths-Art seminars. http://www.youtube.com/user/LKLMathsArt *Visit the website and seminar archive: http://www.lkl.ac.uk/events/maths-art *Join the email list for future seminar announcements: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/lkl-maths-art ++++++ Dr Phillip Kent, Visiting Fellow, London Knowledge Lab p.kent at ioe.ac.uk phillip.kent at gmail.com www.phillipkent.net m: 07950 952034 ++++++ From towers at ucalgary.ca Tue Feb 12 20:47:17 2013 From: towers at ucalgary.ca (Jo Towers) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:47:17 -0700 Subject: [Maths-Education] Post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Calgary Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please find attached information regarding two post-doctoral fellowships in Mathematics Education being offered at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Regards, Jo Towers ______________________ Jo Towers, Ph.D., Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Education, EDT712, 4500, University Drive, NW, Calgary, AB, T2N1N4, Canada. Phone: 1-403-220-7366 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: postdoctoral fellowships _Eyes highFINAL .pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 75440 bytes Desc: postdoctoral fellowships _Eyes highFINAL .pdf URL: From Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk Wed Feb 20 20:39:25 2013 From: Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk (Peter Gates) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:39:25 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] An Invitation from the Editorial Board of Oxford Bibliographies Message-ID: Colleagues, I have been invited to write the maths education section of the "Oxford Bibliographies in Education" . However, the prospect of one person writing a definitive summary of the whole field I feel is a bit overambitious - and would be improved by involving others who had expertise in substantive fields. The editorial board has agreed that the Maths Education entry can be multiple authored. Hence I'll inviting others to come in with me and offer to put together a bibliography for your field. This way I think we can together do something really good. So rather than me send out invites to all my mates, I'm sending this general one first. Are you interested in contributing an annotated bibliography with a descriptive overview or commentary? If so, which topic or field? I'm happy to coordinate etc. and put together one or two myself. The fee for the whole thing is $350 or $700 in OUP books. We can see how this goes - by either splitting it equally or donating the fee to a charity. We don't do these things for money do we! If you are interested, can you let me know, and tell me what topic or area you think you can contribute to. (For example those research interest fields in PME!). If I get a number of offers naturally I'll have to identify people, but I'll do my best to be honourable and fair! I am told the deadline is "Proposed deadline: May 1, 2013 (flexible)". The info from Oxford is as follows..... "Oxford is committed to supporting the research of those working in the field of Education worldwide. To that end, we have developed Oxford Bibliographies in Education which aims to help students and scholars to quickly identify the main pathways of research and to determine the relevance and quality of potential resources. Articles published in Oxford Bibliographies combine the best features of an annotated bibliography with a high-level encyclopedia, all with the online-only capabilities of enhanced cross-referencing, full-text searches and direct links to the sources cited. All articles will be peer-reviewed and the corpus will grow by at least 50 new articles per year. In addition, each article will be networked and linked to online journals, databases, and other digital resources. You can learn more about the project at http://oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/education. We are inviting the top researchers in the field to contribute and I, along with Editor-in-Chief Luanna Meyer and the editorial board, invite you to author the article "Elementary and Secondary Mathematics Education". If you choose, you may include a second author for the article, provided you are first author. You will have the option to regularly revise and update the article after publication and are welcome to write additional articles if you so choose. Each article should provide a skeleton for research, with general topic headings first, followed by more thematic headings, each introduced by a commentary paragraph and followed by a select list of annotated citations." OK? So let me know. 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I am trying to understand what these reports are saying overall and [later] to work out how they may or may not be influencing how maths ed is being taken forward. It's work in progress, and I am thinking that many of you will have important insights and information that could contribute to an overall understanding (which I am suggesting will be useful for the whole community). So I am inviting you to have a look at my multi-paged experimental blogwhich is designed to gather comments - and to comment if you have anything to contribute. I will be presenting on my project at the next BSRLMon March 2nd in Bristol. Here's the address for the blog: www.mathsreports.wordpress.com Marie -- --------------------------------------------- Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics Education University of Nottingham From paulus.gerdes at gmail.com Fri Feb 22 19:32:41 2013 From: paulus.gerdes at gmail.com (Paulus Gerdes) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:32:41 +0200 Subject: [Maths-Education] 5th International Conference on Ethnomathematics (ICEM-5) Message-ID: *First Announcement* *5th International Conference on Ethnomathematics (ICEM-5)* The Fifth International Conference on Ethnomathematics will be held in Chidenguele (Gaza Province, Mozambique), July 7?11, 2014. Ethnomathematics studies the mathematical ideas of cultural groups and the many interactions between mathematics, education and cultures. The previous four ICEMs were in Spain, Brazil, New Zealand, and the USA. And now it comes to the African continent (but, of course, world-wide ethnomathematicians are all encouraged to come!) Sunday July 6, 2014, will be reserved for the transport of the participants from Mozambique?s capital to Chidenguele, situated in a beautiful coastal region with lakes and dunes, 250 km northeast of Maputo. On Saturday morning (July 12), the participants will return to Maputo, where they can take part in a festival of Mozambican intellectual games in the afternoon. Participants can return to their home countries on Saturday night or Sunday, or later, if they want to stay in Mozambique for holidays. The scientific activities of the conference will consist of plenary lectures, presentations, round tables / panels, workshops, poster sessions, and also of visits to schools in the Gaza Province. Participants are invited to propose topics or activities, including activities they will like to realise in the schools to be visited. Accommodation will be offered in lodges around the lakes and beach of Chidenguele. A web site for the conference will be created. ICEM-5 will be jointly hosted and organised by the International Study Group on Ethnomathematics (ISGEm), the Southern African Study Group on Ethnomathematics (SASGEm) and the Mozambican Study Group on Ethnomathematics (MOSGEm). Expecting to meet you in Mozambique for this great event, Sincerely yours, Marcos Cherinda & Evaristo Uaila (Coordinators MOSGEm, mcherinda at gmail.com, eduaila at yahoo.com.br), Abdulcarimo Ismael (Coordinator SASGEm, ismaelabdulcarimo at gmail.com), Paulus Gerdes (President ISGEm, Paulus.Gerdes at gmail.com). From A.M.Brown at mmu.ac.uk Tue Feb 26 18:24:15 2013 From: A.M.Brown at mmu.ac.uk (Tony Brown) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:24:15 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] Fwd: MMU PL in International Education References: <9D912D3D94D442488F16B4A164E1BEEFD49C5E54@EXMB2.ad.mmu.ac.uk> Message-ID: MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY Faculty of Education Principal Lecturer: International Education Grade 10: ?45,941 - ?53,233 per annum Job reference: G1/3076A Closing date: 25 March 2013 See: https://www.jobs.mmu.ac.uk/mmujobsite/VacancyDetail.aspx?VacancyUID=000000007675 Manchester Metropolitan University is one of the UK's largest and most popular Universities. The Faculty of Education has a strong national reputation for its work across the education disciplines and professions. The faculty is a vibrant, creative and exciting place to work with a supportive management team that encourages fresh ideas. 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