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Caro Antonio Azevedo
Aqui vai o t=EDtulo e o abstract da sess=E3o plen=E1ria do Jeff Evans da
Middlesex University, UK:

BUILDING BRIDGES: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEBATE ON
TRANSFER OF LEARNING IN MATHEMATICS
If schooling is to have relevance
to settings and activities outside itself, we need to be clear how
learning from the school can transfer, or be applied, in other
contexts. Yet the takeup of opportunities for applying school
learning is often disappointing - to teachers, parents, employers,
and many pupils. Unsurprisingly, there is much controversy among
researchers in maths education and related fields, such as Valerie
Walkerdine, Jean Lave, and Basil Bernstein, as to the explanations.
In this talk, I shall appraise the debate and draw on my own research
with adult students, in order to clarify the problem and to
contribute to efforts to help learners to build bridges between
different practices.

Entretanto, confirmo o nosso acordo (que penso ficou neste pe):
1) O projecto Pensamento Matematico (que coordeno na FCUL) pagara a
deslocacao de aviao Londres-Lisboa-Londres (tarifa reduzida PEX), excepto
no caso de o Seminario dispor de verba para esta despesa.
2) A Comissao Organizadora do Seminario pagara a estadia e alimentacao do
Jeff Evans durante os dias do Seminarios, vespera e eventualmente dia
seguinte. Caso exista liquidez (por via de subsidios recebidos ou outros) a
Comissao Organizadora pagara igualmente a viagem do convidado.
3) Poderei encarregar-me de conduzir o Jeff de Lisboa a Figueira de Foz na
v=E9spera do Semin=E1rio.
Estamos de acordo?
Agradeco uma resposta o mais brevemente possivel.

Um abraco,
Joao Filipe Matos

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                          INTERNATIONAL  CONFERENCE  ON

                            TEACHING  OF MATHEMATICS

                                July 3-6, 1998

                                Samos,   Greece





Contributed paper and poster session submissions are invited for the
International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics to be held
July 3-6, 1998, on Samos, Greece.




SCOPE:

The main objective of the Interantional Conference is to examine new ways of
teaching undergaduate mathematics. It will provide a unique and centralized
forum and bring together faculty members from various countries who are
committed to introducing and using innovative teaching methods. The conferene
will be of great interest to mathematics faculty as well as to anyone in the
teaching and learning process of undergraduate mathematics.



CONFERENCE  THEMES:


The conference presentations will be centered around the following themes:



  --   EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH:  Results of current research in mathematics
       education and assessment of student learning

  --   TECHNOLOGY:  Effective integration of computing technology
       (Calculators, Computer Algebra Systems, WWW, and Internet
       resources) into the undergraduate math curriculum

  --   INNOVATIVE TEACHING FORMATS:  Innovative ways of teaching
       undergraduate mathematics courses: cooperative and collaborative
       learning styles

  --   DISTANCE LEARNING:  Distance Learning Technologies for teaching and
       learning mathematics. Current hardware/software delivery media,
       educational materials and assessment of student learning

  --   SPECIFIC COURSES:  Reform efforts in specific mathematics courses
       and assessment of results

  --   OTHER DISCIPLINES:  The effects of changes in the teaching of
       mathematics courses on other disciplines (what are the mathematical
       needs of client disciplines; interdisciplinary courses)





INVITED SPEAKERS (The following are confirmed--List updated as invitations are
                  accepted)


Andrew Gleason            Colette Laborde              Jan Persens
Dept. of Math             Laboratoire IMAG-Leibniz     Dept. of Math
Harvard University        Universite Joseph Fourier    University of South Cape
USA                       FRANCE                       SOUTH AFRICA


David Tall                Jerry Uhl                   Bert Waits
Math Ed. Research Center  Dept. of Math               Dept. of Math
Warwick University        University of Illinois      Ohio State University
UNITED KINGDOM            USA                         USA


Erich Ch. Wittmann
Fachbereich Math. Dortmund
Universitaet Dortmund
GERMANY






FORMAT  OF PROPOSALS

Contributed paper sessions will consist of several twenty minute
presentations.  Poster sessions will consist of poster displays scheduled
at specific times during the conference.


  Proposals for papers and displays should contain:
     a) An identification of the proposal as a paper or a display,
     b) The title of the proposal;
     c) The names of the authors and preferred address and e-mail address
        of the contact person for the proposal;
     d) an extended abstract of 1 1/2 pages double spaced;
     e) an identification of the conference theme under which the proposal
        fits


Please send THREE copies (by mail) to:

  Professor William Barker
  Department of Mathematics
  Yale University
  P.O. Box  208283
  New Haven, CT 06520-8283

  Tel:  (203) 432-7055
  Fax:  (203) 432-7316
  E-Mail: bbarker@math.yale.edu




The proceedings of the Conference will be published by John-Wiley (in paper
format) and will be available at the conference site.



DEADLINES

The following deadlines will be strictly observed:

        Submission of paper proposals (received by):    October  27, 1997
        Notification to authors (send by):              November 24, 1997
        Submission of full paper (camera ready format): February 1,  1998


Along with the notification to accepted papers, guidelines for submitting
a camera ready paper will be send to the "contact" author.




GENERAL  INFORMATION

The Program of the International Conference on the Teaching of
Mathematics will include:
    a) invited speakers;
    b) contributed paper sessions;
    c) poster sessions;
    d) technology workshops.



ORGANIZING CONFERECENCE CHAIR                         CO-CHAIRS

   Ignatios  Vakalis                 Deborah Hughes-Hallett  Nikos Hadjisavvas
   Depart. of Math                   Depart. of Math         Depart. of Math
   Capital University                Harvard University      Univ. of Aegean



The registration for the conference is: $100 (no proceedings) and $120
(including a copy of the proceedings).

For the latest information about the conference, please visit our Web
site (bookmark it for further updates) at:

                http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~samos98



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>From: rfouchaux@EDU.YorkU.CA (Richard Fouchaux)
>To: math-teach@forum.swarthmore.edu
>Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 14:08:29 -0400
>Subject: New Math Curriculum for Ontario Grades 1-8
>Organization: York University Faculty of Education
>
>The Ontario Ministry of Education and Training last Friday released
>_The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Mathematics, 1997_, available on
>the web at:
>
>http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/curricul/curr97m.pdf
>
>(Note... you must have the Adobe Acrobat reader to view this file. The
>current version is 3.0, which installs a plugin for Netscape and MSIE.)
>
>The document states:
>
><<<citing document:
>The mathematics curriculum set out in this document is significantly
>more rigorous and demanding than previous curricula. This curriculum
>includes a broader range of knowledge and skills and introduces many
>skills--for example, the mastery of number facts and the use of such
>standard measurement terms as centimetre and kilogram--in earlier
>grades. Expectations for pencil-and-paper skills in mathematical
>operations have been raised and are clearly stated (in the sections on
>Grades 4, 5, and 6). The expectations related to students'
>problem-solving skills are also more stringent. Students will be
>expected to describe what they are doing in mathematics and to explain
>why they are doing it.
>
>Where previous policy documents identified general outcomes for Grades
>3, 6, and 9 only, The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Mathematics, 1997
>gives precise and detailed descriptions of the knowledge and skills
>required for each grade....
>-end of citation>>>
>
>In short, they seem to have tightened up some of the open-ended
>language that has frightened parents groups and responsible teachers
>alike, heightened the level of expectations, and yet done so without
>ignoring the sound, research-based findings in developmental and
>cognitive psychology that have inspired and informed such documents as
>the NCTM Standards and our previous _The Common Curriculum, 1995_.
>
>In other words, concepts, contexts, manipulatives, cooperative
>learning, etc., etc., co-exist side by side with the call for
>individual practice, high expectations: rigor.
>
>Is this just so many words, designed by politicians to attempt to
>please everybody?  I invite you all to take a look.  I respectfully
>await your professional opinions.
>
>
>--
>Richard Fouchaux                     rfouchaux@edu.yorku.ca
>Teacher Candidate,    Junior/Intermediate    (pre-service)
>York University Faculty of Education, North York, ON, CA
>     >> http://www.edu.yorku.ca/~tcs/~rfouchaux/ <<
>
>

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