From P.Iannone at lboro.ac.uk Mon Jun 5 12:26:08 2017 From: P.Iannone at lboro.ac.uk (Paola Iannone) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 11:26:08 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FROM August 2017 - call for applications Message-ID: <13A04291-900C-4416-8C96-5718B966A77D@lboro.ac.uk> Could you please post this call for application as editorial assistant to the list please? Thank you nd best wishes - Paola Iannone ================ Sent on behalf of Adrian Simpson, Yvette Solomon and Gabriel Stylianides RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (ROUTLEDGE/TAYLOR & FRANCIS) EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FROM August 2017 Call for Applications Applications are invited for the position of Editorial Assistant of the journal Research in Mathematics Education (RME), from August 2017. Research in Mathematics Education is the official journal of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM). The RME Editorship is held jointly by Adrian Simpson, Yvette Solomon and Gabriel Stylianides, publishing three issues per year. The Editorial Assistant supports the editors in the publication process from article submission to publication, as well as supporting the journal?s social media presence and wider promotion. This involves frequent correspondence with authors, reviewers and editors. RME submissions are managed through an online platform ScholarOne, with production run through the CATS programme (Central Article Tracking System). Appropriate training will be given upon appointment. In addition to supporting the management of articles, the duties of the RME Editorial Assistant include: management of social media accounts; tracking the progress of submitted papers; assisting in correspondence with the publisher and Editorial Board; maintaining financial records; routine assistance in the final stages of preparing copy for each of the three issues; and preparation of reports for key stakeholders (such as BSRLM). The RME Editorial Assistant role is well-suited to graduate students in a related academic field with excellent organisational and communication skills. The RME Editorial Assistant is paid an honorarium of ?170 per month, in return for up to 4 hours per week on average, normally over 4-5 days per week, in 48 weeks per year. Since most work is computer based, the location of the RME Editorial Assistant within the UK is immaterial, conditional on occasional face-to-face meetings with the editors. Applications should take the form of a letter to the editors, on no more than one side of paper, outlining the applicant?s background, experience and expertise in relation to the job specification above, along with the name and contact details of one appropriate referee. Applications should be sent as an email attachment to the Editors, at rme at bsrlm.org.uk, by 30th June 2017. Informal enquiries about the role may be sent to any the RME editors, Adrian Simpson >, Yvette Solomon > or Gabriel Stylianides > The RME Editors reserve the right to approach potential candidates by invitation after the closing date for applications. =========== Paola Iannone Mathematics Education Centre Loughborough University Loughborough LE11 3TU UK p.iannone at lboro.ac.uk From D.K.Jones at soton.ac.uk Tue Jun 6 09:40:04 2017 From: D.K.Jones at soton.ac.uk (Jones D.K.) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 08:40:04 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] PME Newsletter, May 2017, available Message-ID: <5A5A76258A69AF499C3C136F4CF8945AB505E975@SRV00357.soton.ac.uk> Dear colleague The current edition of the Newsletter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (IGPME) is available in pdf format from the PME website: http://igpme.org/index.php/communication/pme-newsletter/past-newsletters/210-pme-newsletter-may-june-2017 Alternatively for viewing on tablet or smartphone, the newsletter is available via the online reader ISSUU: https://issuu.com/pmeadministrativemanager/docs/17_05_pme_newsletter Please consider informing colleagues who may be interested. With greetings from PME Keith ----------------------------- Keith Jones, on behalf of the PME Newsletter editors and the PME International Committee PME-41 takes place in Singapore from 17-22 July 2017: http://math.nie.edu.sg/pme41/ Initial details of future PME conferences can be found at: http://igpme.org/index.php/annual-conference Announcements (such as jobs, conferences, new books, etc.) can be posted on the PME website forum at: http://www.igpme.org/index.php/communication/announcement-forum From Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk Thu Jun 15 15:49:09 2017 From: Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk (Peter Gates) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:49:09 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] Fwd: PhD scholarship in Norway In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <16892B1A-36BC-44F4-97C3-42C6E7BA02B9@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> Applications are invited for a 4 year PhD scholarship in Mathematics Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Department of Mathematical Sciences. See https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/139418/phd-fellowship-in-didactics-of-mathematics The PhD candidate will be involved in research connected to the ongoing work with renewing the basic education in mathematics and statistics for engineering students at NTNU. Central research areas will be * The transition from upper secondary school to higher education * Use of digital resources, including computational resources (programming), for teaching, learning and assessment of mathematics at university level * Development of physical and digital learning environments, where communication and interaction between students and between students and teachers play a central role. Application deadline: 15 September 2017. It would be much appreciated if you would share this information with possible candidates, and I am happy to provide further information. I can be contacted at frode.ronning at ntnu.no I apologise for possible cross posting. Kind regards, Frode R?nning ----------------------------------------------------------- Frode R?nning professor Dept. of Mathematical Sciences Norwegian University of Science and Technology N-7491 Trondheim Tel.: +47 73 55 02 56 / +47 952 18 138 http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/froderon From P.Ernest at exeter.ac.uk Fri Jun 30 15:03:48 2017 From: P.Ernest at exeter.ac.uk (Ernest, Paul) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:03:48 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] Keynotes from MACAS conference June 2017 In-Reply-To: <5A5A76258A69AF499C3C136F4CF8945AAABF82A7@SRV00046.soton.ac.uk> References: <5A5A76258A69AF499C3C136F4CF8945AAABF82A7@SRV00046.soton.ac.uk> Message-ID: MACAS-2017 Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences This is a regular conference series If you go to the website you will find abstracts of all the papers presented MACAS conference June 2017, http://conferences.au.dk/macas-2017/ The Keynotes were: [http://conferences.au.dk/fileadmin/conferences/2017/MACAS-2017/Pictures/paul.jpg] Mathematics, Beauty and Art Paul Ernest, Education, Exeter University, UK [http://conferences.au.dk/fileadmin/conferences/2017/MACAS-2017/Pictures/Jens-Hoejgaard-2.jpg] Mathematical Modelling ? Hiding or Guiding? Jens H?jgaard Jensen, IMFUFA, Department of Sciences, Roskilde University [http://conferences.au.dk/fileadmin/conferences/2017/MACAS-2017/Pictures/annie.jpg] Making Decisions in a Complex World: Teaching How to Navigate Using Mathematics Annie Savard, Faculty of Education at McGill University, Canada To see video recordings of the talks follow these links Paul Ernest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Gt_ejP778 Jens H?jgaard Jensen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdVkK2jKC00 Annie Savard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GFXywOfQU ABSTRACTS Mathematics, Beauty and Art Paul Ernest, Education, Exeter University, UK What is beauty in mathematics? What dimensions of mathematical beauty can be distinguished? Provisional answers to these questions are given, and mathematical beauty is illustrated by means of an example from visual art. Since beauty is shared by both mathematics and art, what parallels, including similarities and differences, can be drawn between mathematics and art? Mathematical Modelling ? Hiding or Guiding? Jens H?jgaard Jensen, IMFUFA, Department of Sciences, Roskilde University The increasing scientific management of technology and society, supported by increasingly powerful information technologies (ICT), has lead, and leads to increasingly widespread use of mathematical models. This development gives rise to a democratic problem: How can ordinary people judge the conclusions delivered by mathematical models? Are the conclusions to be believed, since ?mathematics does not lie?? Or is it better to go with: ?There are lies, damned lies, and statistics?? In the talk I will illustrate a crude distinction between mathematical models derived from theories, and ad-hoc mathematical models without references to more global theories. The distinction cannot be used to evaluate whether specific models are ?hiding? or ?guiding?: theory-derived models may be too idealized to be trusted; and ad-hoc models may be trustworthy due to their richness of input data. The value of the distinction, however, is that it makes clear that some mathematical models, the theory-derived models, besides the possibility of evaluating them by comparing with empirical data, may also be evaluated by theoretical considerations. Evaluating ad-models are, in contrast, restricted to being done by empirical control only. Thus, the distinction between theory-derived models and ad-hoc models may help ordinary people, not to distinguish between trustworthy and non- trustworthy models, but to distinguish between the different qualities of the evaluation processes behind different sorts of models. Making Decisions in a Complex World: Teaching How to Navigate Using Mathematics Annie Savard, Faculty of Education at McGill University, Canada We are living in a very complex world and the complexity is increasing by the knowledge needed to make relevant decisions for ourselves, and similarly for our communities. Community, crisis, economy, identity, health, sustainability and technology are some of the prominent facets of this complexity that make the world we used to know a different place to be in today. The world is changing so fast, without strong knowledge and skills, it is hard to navigate it. How can we support our students to make relevant decisions for themselves and their communities? How can we teach them knowledge and skills when the jobs they will have don?t exist yet? This plenary session will present how critical thinking using mathematics might support the decision making process from an ethnomathematical perspective. Best wishes Paul _________ Paul Ernest Emeritus Professor, Education, Exeter University, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK Homepage http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/education/research/centres/stem/publications/pmej/ Philosophy of Maths Ed Journal