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Esta e outra infromacao que talvez seja do interesse geral. Joao Pedro da Ponte



INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR COMPUTER ALGEBRA IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

RE-ESTABLISHMENT  ANNOUNCEMENT

TO ALL COMPUTER SCIENTISTS, EDUCATIONALISTS AND MATHEMATICIANS INTERESTED IN
THE USE OF COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEMS IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

The International Council for Computer Algebra in Mathematics Education
(IC-CAME) was founded at the First International DERIVE Conference,
Plymouth, UK, July, 1994. Bernhard Kutzler (Austria) and John Monaghan (UK)
were elected as 'Joint-Chair'.

The goals of IC-CAME were stated as:
* to provide an information service on developments
* to generate an academic profile for this new area of study
* to facilitate access to international expertise in this area
* to steer a series of national and international conferences

IC-CAME, as presently constituted, is deliberately provisional. At the
meeting it was planned to arrange an open meeting at the main four yearly
conference of mathematics educationalists, ICME in Seville, Spain in July,
1996. A time for this meeting has now been arranged (see below). This
meeting will have the power to reconstitute the Council and elect new
members and officers. It is hoped that this will be a representative meeting
of all interested parties. To this end this statement is being circulated as
widely as we can manage. PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANY INTERESTED PARTY OR GROUP.

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THE RE-ESTABLSIHMENT OF IC-CAME WILL TAKE PLACE IN SEVILLE, SPAIN, IN A
VENUE TO BE ANNOUNCED, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF ICME-8 ON TUESDAY 16 JULY,
1996, FROM 17:00 to 18:30.

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

1) NOTICES
2) AGREEMENT ON AN AGENDA
3) DISCUSSION ON THE GOALS
4) DISCUSSION ON THE NAME OF THE ORGANISATION
5) ELECTION OF OFFICERS
6) PLANS FOR PROMOTING THE GOALS
7) FURTHER MEETINGS

COMMUNICATIONS, NOTICES AND AGENDA ITEMS MAY BE FORWARDED TO EITHER

Bernhard Kutzler, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, University of
Linz, A-4232 Hagenberg, Austria, ph +43-7236-3297, fax +43-7236-3769, email
kutzler@swp.co.at

OR

John Monaghan, Centre for Studies in Science and Mathematics Education,
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK, ph +113-2334603, fax +113-2334683,
email J.D.Monaghan@education.leeds.ac.uk

FURTHER ELECTRONIC BULLETINS ARE PLANNED WHERE WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE VENUE.
NOTICES WILL BE POSTED WITHIN THE ICME-8 REGISTRATION AREA.

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST WE ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY IC-CAME'S REASON FOR EXISTENCE.

Why is an International Council needed? There is no such Council for
computers or calculators in mathematics education. We see the lack of such
co-ordinating bodies as a pity. International co-operation could have eased
many problems with developments in these areas and still could. The case of
the introduction of calculators in schools worldwide over the last twenty
years shows a great deal of uneven development and still today calcultors
are often employed to reinforce the algorithms they replace. Moreover,
despite two decades of research showing the positive effect of calculator
use on students' learning there are many, even in the mathematics education
community, who do not appreciate their worth. CASs are, in many ways, to
higher mathematics what calculators are to elementary mathematics. We hope
that IC-CAME can assist developers in avoiding the problems of a second
calculator 'revolution'. We hope that teachers, curriculum developers and
assessment bodies of countries contemplating introducing CASs can benefit
from the experience of their peers in countries who have started down the
CAS road.

The present 'Joint-Chair' and the Steering Committee see the furtherance of
IC-CAME as the important issue. They will be happy to relinquish their
positions to more able/ representative colleagues.



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Joao Pedro da Ponte
Departamento de Educacao da Faculdade de Ciencias
Universidade de Lisboa

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Aqui esta um anuncio que espero que possa interessar a alguns dos
subscritores deste forum. Joao Pedro da Ponte.


International Conference on Mathematics Education ICME-8
July, 14-21, 1996
Seville, Spain
Working Group 16 (WG 16)
"The role of technology in the mathematics classroom"

Third Announcement
January 26, 1996

        This is the operational plan for Working Group 16 during ICME-8
in Seville: We have four program slots of 90 minutes each. In the first
time slot we will meet in a plenary session. After opening remarks and
an overview of the group's working plan, we will have an invited speaker
review recent developments and important questions on use of technology
in the mathematics classroom. That overview talk will be followed by some
time for questions and comments on important issues that the working
group should be considering in its subsequent sessions.
        During the second and third working group sessions, we will meet
in smaller sub-groups. The sub-groups will be focused on issues at four
levels of schooling: Primary, Upper Elementar/Middle, Senior Secondary,
and Tertiary. Depending on the number and scope of papers we receive,
additional working sub-groups may be formed. Each working sub-group will
have an organizer/discussant who will give an introductory overview of the
contributed papers for the sub-group and then lead discussion about the
paper and other related issues.
        Finally, at the fourth working group session all participants will
meet again in plenary session. Organizers and discussants of the working
sub-groups will summarize the discussions in their groups in an attempt
to formulate recommendations for research, development, and implementation
of technology in the mathematics classroom.
        Depending on the number of papers presented for each sub-group we
may have time for a very limited number of short presentations. However,
we encourage every participant of the sub-group to submit short
presentations to ICME as well. If many of us do so, we might be able to
have the organizers put those posters together and have an extra session
at the poster exhibit. At this point we have quite a few confirmed
participants and we are deciding the details of organization, but please
feel free to send suggestions.

Papers should be submitted until April 15 to
Marcelo C. Borba
Cx Postal 178
Graduate Program of Mathematics Education
13500-230 Rio Claro - SP   Brasil
e-mail: mborba@rcb000.uesp.ansp.br
fax/phone: 55-195-340123
Send papers both through electronic and regular mail. Also send an
extra-electronic copy if possible to Jim Fey's address:
James_T_Fey@umail.umd.edu

PLEASE SEND THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ANYONE YOU THINK IT MAY BE INTERESTED
IN OUR WORKING GROUP

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Universidade de Lisboa

Edificio C1-Campo Grande-1700 LISBOA-PORTUGAL
fax office (351-1)-757-3624
tel. office (351-1)-7573141 ext 1103 or 2012
tel. home (351-1)-3630861

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Estimados colegas:

Aqui esta uma informacao que espero possa interessar alguns membros do FORUM:



ICMI 8 / TG19
"Computer-based interactive learning environments"
(here after "CBILE", in order to shorten this announcement)

In recent years, our computer-based ability to connect and manipulate
representations of knowledge in mathematics have become ever more powerful
and flexible.  The reification of mathematical knowledge in computer-based
learning environments, and accompanying enrichment of mathematical
experience due to
progress in interface design and knowledge representation (ie internal
structures), widen and deepen access to experiential learning.  Some of
these environments even involve tools or models that adapt to the learner
or guide their learning.  Such developments raise questions regarding the
use of these tools in the classroom: How can teachers and others assess and
make sense of what students learn?  How can they manage computer-intensive
classroom situations? How is mathematical knowledge transformed when
instantiated in such computational environments (the computational
transposition of mathematics)?  How can teachers bridge between low
technology and high technology approaches to teaching and learning?
Dealing with such questions is essential to the productive use of
technology by teachers and designers of instruction.

We would like the Topic Group to examine these questions from the research
point of view as well as from practice. Since the design and implementation
of computer-based interactive learning environments results from the
collaboration of at least two communities, computer-scientists and
mathematics-
educators, TG 19 will address each of them regarding the difficulties and
success in the past and the problems to be investigated by research and
development in the future?

Among the possible key issues to addressed we identify:
- Microworlds and the new realism of mathematics
- Managing didactical interaction
- Person/machine interaction and acquisition of a mathematical language
- Distance learning, collaborative learning and distributed or virtual
classrooms
- Problems, limits, and potentials of the teacher/machine partnership
- Understanding learners' understanding and the issue of learner modeling
- Computational transposition of mathematics and related epistemological issues
- the contribution and limits of AI
- the contribution and limits of the WWW as a CBILE

The issue of the evolution of the curriculum due to technology may be
mainly addressed within WG15.

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Aqui esta uma informacao de interesse geral sobre o TG 10 do ICME
(Resolucao de problemas -- um tema com grandes tradicoes na investigacao em
Portugal...)

Joao Pedro

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>From: Kaye Stacey <Kaye_Stacey@muwayf.unimelb.edu.au>
>Subject: TG10 call for contributions
>To: Andrew Waywood <awaywood@christ.acu.edu.au>
>
>                       Subject:                               Time:4:12 PM
>  OFFICE MEMO          TG10 call for contributions            ------------------------------
Date:23/2/96

>
>TG10.  Problem Solving throughout the curriculum.
>ICME8, Seville, July 1996
>HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
>Mathematics educators interested in problem solving are invited to contribute
>to TG10, a topic group for ICME8.  The work of the group is described later in
>this message and the plan of the sessions is outlined.  To maximise the
>opportunities for interaction in Seville, all congress delegates who wish to
>participate in TG10 are invited to make a short written contribution in
>advance.  Please send a short article (maximum length 1000 words) in English
>or in Spanish to
>tgten@dsme.edfac.unimelb.edu.au
>The article should be sent as an enclosure to the e-mail message saved as
>plain text or rtf (rich text format) or in the body of the e-mail message.
>Each article should begin with the author's name, institution, address (postal
>and e-mail if possible) and an abstract of not more than 100 words preferably
>written in English.  Articles may be accepted at any time, but preferably
>before April 15th 1996.  These contributions may form the basis of a book
>after the congress.
>VIEWING THE CONTRIBUTIONS
>As they become available, the contributions will be published on the World
>Wide Web at the address
>http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/DSME/scimathed.html
>Those who will be attending the topic group and who do not have WWW access,
>may ask for the papers to be sent to them by e-mail.
>For e-mail orders, please send an e-mail message to
>tgten@dsme.edfac.unimelb.edu.au
>Those who have no e-mail or WWW access may ask for paper copies to be provided
>on arrival in Seville by writing to the local organiser, Jose Carrillo, whose
>address appears below.
>Please distribute this message to interested colleagues.
>We look forward to your contribution. Kaye Stacey, Chief Organiser.
>
>DESCRIPTION OF THE GROUP
>Increasingly the success of mathematical education is being judged by the
>power which it imparts to students to deal with aspects of their lives at
>work, at home and as informed citizens.   This topic group is concerned with
>theories and practices which give students the power to use mathematical ideas
>to solve problems arising from within mathematics and from outside
>mathematics.  Contributions will discuss curriculum materials, school
>organisation and structures, assessment, teacher education and empirical and
>philosophical research studies into thinking, learning and teaching.
>
>PLAN OF THE SESSIONS
>Session 1.  Overview of topic
>Introduction, invited presentations, open discussion.
>Session 2: Themes
>Participants will meet in rooms allocated to four discussion themes. There
>will be short presentations and group discussion, followed by plenary
>reporting session.
>The themes are:
>(a)  Assessment of problem solving  Chair: Maria Falk de Losada
>(b)  Problem solving and teacher education  Chair: Maria Luz Callejo
>(c)  Innovative mathematics curricula  Chair: Jose Carillo
>(d)  Psychological and social factors affecting problem solving  Chair:  Kaye
>Stacey
>
>ORGANISING COMMITTEE
>Chief Organiser: Prof Kaye Stacey, Dept of Science & Mathematics Education,
>University of Melbourne, Parkville  Vic  3052, Australia
>email:  k.stacey@edfac.unimelb.edu.au, Phone:  +61 3 9344 8746 (TIME ZONE: GMT
>+10) Fax: +61 3 9344 8739
>Advisory Panel: Diana V. Lambdin, School of Education (Rm 3266), Indiana
>University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA, email: lambdin@ucs.indiana.edu  Phone:
>812 856 8149 (TIME ZONE: GMT -6)  Fax: 812 856 8440
>Maria Luz Callejo, Departamento de Didactica de las Matematicas
>Instituto de Estudios Pedagogicos Somosagaus (IEPS), Vizconde de Matamala, 3,
>28028 - Madrid , SPAIN, phone:  34 1 356 4404 (TIME ZONE: GMT +1), fax:34 1
>725 9209
>Mary Falk de Losada, Departmento de Matematicas
>Ciudad Universitaria, Bogota,  COLUMBIA
>email: mariadel@federman.uanarino.edu.co, Phone:       57 1 221 7153 (TIME
>ZONE: GMT
>-5), Fax:57 1 221 1666
>Local Organiser:  Jose Carrillo, Departmento de Didactica de las Ciencias,
>Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educacion
>Universidad de Huelva. Campus El Carmen, Avda. de las Fuerzas Armadas, s/n,
>21071-HUELVA, SPAIN, email:  carrillo@colon.uhu.es, phone:+34 59 270143 (TIME
>ZONE: GMT +1), fax: + 34 59 270143
>
>
>
>
A.Waywood
Australian Catholic University

fax 61 3 9563 3605

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