[Maths-Education] 3rd Conference for European Research in Mathematics Education

[M Melissa Rodd]

CERME 3: Group 3
Building structures in mathematical knowledge

The Third Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics
Education (CERME 3) takes place at Bellaria , Italy, from  February 28th to
March 3rd, 2003.

CERME is a conference organised by the European Society for Research in
Education, and is designed to foster a communicative spirit. It
deliberately and distinctively moves away from research presentations by
individuals towards collaborative group work. Its main feature is to be a
number of thematic groups whose members will work together in a common
research area. This message refers to one, Group 3, of 12 such groups.

We will have 12 hours over four days in which to meet and progress our work
on building mathematical structures. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed
by three reviewers, as far as possible chosen from the group of
participants in Group 3. The process will NOT be blind review. If you
submit a paper to Group 3, you are likely to be asked to review one or more
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All accepted papers will be published on the internet and made available to
participants in the group to read before the conference. The group leaders
will organise activity and discussion in the conference around issues
raised by the papers.

The organisers for Group 3 invite research-based papers on building
mathematical structures, including the way children construct mathematical
concepts and schemes and develop thinking strategies.

We will be particularly interested in theoretical, empirical or
developmental papers that address one or more of the following themes
(though any papers of relevance to the overall focus of the group will also
be considered):

=B7 Further development of and reactions to ideas presented in WG1: "Buildin=
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structures in mathematical knowledge." (CERME 2, Part 1, pages 13 - 121). =
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=B7 The structuring process in different areas of mathematics, particularly
in: elementary arithmetic, geometry, algebra, number theory, combinatorics,
real numbers, functions, =85
=B7 Identification of cognitive phenomena and describing of cognitive
mechanisms linked to the structuring processes.=20
=B7 Case study analysing the process of building mathematical structures.
=B7 Development of the research method which can be used in this area.=20
=B7 Application of the research results in school education.=20


According to the directions decided by CERME 3 Organizer Committee, papers
have to be written in English. Papers for Group 3 should be submitted
electronically as MS Word files (RTF format) by September 15th, 2002, to
Milan Hejny (milan.hejny@pedf.cuni.cz ), together with the submission form.
The submission form, details of format for papers, and any other
information are given in the CERME 3 web site
<http://fibonacci.dm.unipi.it/~didattica/CERME3/>.

If you have further questions, concerning group 3, please contact any of
the group leaders :

Milan Hejny <milan.hejny@pedf.cuni.cz >

Perla Nesher <nesherp@construct.haifa.ac.il>
Melissa Rodd <M.M.Rodd@education.leeds.ac.uk>

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Dr Melissa Rodd
Lecturer in Mathematics Education
School of Education
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT

0113 3434613/fax 3434683
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