CANP 2012

International School-Seminar "Capacity Building in Mathematics and Mathematics Education" is part of a draft strategic perspective of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction and the International Mathematical Union.

Its purpose is to strengthen the capacities of teachers in mathematics with a program of seminars involving schools, in some regions of the developing world. These together 40 educators from a region in the world about mathematics and mathematics education and enhance their progress steadily. This is a collaborative international perspective being different actors according to their abilities and conditions, with a vision of sustainability through the establishment of permanent cooperation networks. It also seeks that each program impacts the region through activities linked to school-seminars open to wider audiences.

To read more about this project, you can enter the following page:

http://www.cimm.ucr.ac.cr/canp

XIV Conference IACME

He approaches the XIV International Conference on Mathematics Education from 3 to 7 May 2015 in Chiapas, Mexico.

American Committee on Mathematics Education invites educators, researchers and specialists in mathematics education throughout the Americas and elsewhere to the Inter-American Conference on Mathematics Education to be held in Tuxtla Gutierrez (Mexico), May 2015.

To learn more about it, go to link:

http://xiv.ciaem-iacme.org/

2011 ICMI Medallists

We take great pleasure in announcing that the ICMI Award Committee has decided on the Medallists for 2011.
They are:

Felix Klein Medal for lifetime achievement:  Alan Schoenfeld
Hans Freudenthal Medal for a major cumulative programme of research: Luis Radford.

Please join with us in congratulating both Alan and Luis, and acknowledging their fine contributions to mathematics
education and therefore to the mathematics education community.
We look forward to honouring them at ICME-12 in Seoul later this year when full citations will be announced.

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Nelly Vazquez dies

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, died at age 92 in recent days the teacher Nelly Vazquez de Tapia, founder of the Society of Mathematical Education SOAREM Argentina. Nelly was a member and national representative for Argentina IACME for many years.

CIAEM awards the Luis Santaló Medal to Ed Jacobsen

The Interamerican Committee on Math Education (CIAEM), affiliate organization of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, is pleased to announce that the first awardee of the Luis Santaló Medal will be Ed Jacobsen of the United States. The medal will be presented to Dr. Jacobsen in the opening ceremonies of the XIIIth Interamerican Conference on Mathematics Education, which will be held from June 26-30, 2011, in Recife, Brazil (http://xiii.ciaem-iacme.org).

Luis Santaló medal.

The name of Luis Santaló (1911-2001) was chosen because of his extraordinary career as a mathematician and educator. Among his many accomplishments is that he was a pioneer in integral geometry, a complex area of mathematics that combines more classical geometry with modern differential calculus. In 1993 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific Research and in 1996 the Order of Alfonso the Wise. The Generalitat of Catalonia presented him with the Narcís Monturiol Medal for Science in 1984 and the St. George’s Cross (Creu de Sant Jordi) in 1994. He was a teacher for many generations and a point of reference for many Latin American Math Educators. He was on the Board of IACME in 1966 (when IACME II was held in Lima) and IACME’s President from 1972 to 1979.

More information can be found on a special web page created by IACME: http://www.cimm.ucr.ac.cr/luissantalo

The medal will be presented to individuals who have contributed significantly to the development of IACME across their lifetimes. On this first occasion it is awarded to Edward Carl Jacobsen for his generous solidarity, valued support activities and friendship with IACME during many decades, particularly when he was working in the central office of UNESCO in Paris, France.

Edward Carl Jacobsen

Before retiring to the forests of Wisconsin, USA, Ed was responsible for Mathematics Education at UNESCO from 1976 to 1992. He directed the publication of eight volumes of Studies in Mathematics Education, which considered Mathematics Education from an international perspective. He participated on many International Program Committees for International Conferences on Mathematics Education and reoriented the cooperation of UNESCO to regional commissions of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction such as IACME. Ed received a Masters degree in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He was a professor at Robert College en Turkey (hoy Bogaziçi Üniversitesi). He began his work for UNESCO in 1969 and worked in the faculties of education at Nairobi University and University of Botsuana, Lesoto and Suazilandia before moving in 1996 to the main offices of UNESCO in Paris. Ed was vice-president of IACME from 1995 to 1999.

Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, elected at the International Academy of History of Science (IAHS, Paris).

Professor Ubiratan D'Ambrosio has been recently elected as a member of the International Academy of History of Science (IAHS, Paris).
This election represents an important honor and the community Ubiratan Ethnomathematics, in addition to highlighting the importance of Ethnomathematics research program in the history of science.