The HPM 2012 is the eighth quadrennial meeting of the International Study Group on the Relations between the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (the HPM Group), affiliated to ICMI. It is a satellite meeting of the corresponding ICME (International Congress on Mathematical Education) and is scheduled close to ICME. These quadrennial meetings are a major activity of HPM, to bring those together who are interested in the relation between the history of mathematics and mathematics education.
30 June 2011 : deadline for submitting Abstracts of proposals
Main themes
The HPM 2012 is a place where mathematicians, educators, historians, researchers and students can make presentations and participate in discussions. The programme and activities are structured around the following main seven themes :
- Theoretical and/or conceptual frameworks for integrating history in mathematics education ;
- History and epistemology implemented in mathematics education : classroom experiments & teaching materials ;
- Original sources in the classroom, and their educational effects ;
- Mathematics and its relation to science, technology and the arts : historical issues and educational implications ;
- Cultures and mathematics ;
- Topics in the history of mathematics education ;
- Mathematics from Eastern Asia.
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