Joint Meeting of UMI-SIMAI / SMAI-SMF "Mathematics and its Applications"

Panel on Didactics of Mathematics

July, 6th
(Department of Mathematics, Università di Torino, Via Carlo Alberto, 10; room IV, 2nd floor)

Organisers:
Michèle Artigue (Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot)
Ferdinando Arzarello (Università di Torino)

Invited lectures
8.45-10.15
Theme 1: "Technologies and the Teaching of Mathematics"
Lecturers:
Colette Laborde (IUFM & Equipe IAM, Grenoble)
"Using technology as an instrument for mediating knowledge in the teaching of mathematics: the case of dynamic geometry"
Maria Alessandra Mariotti (Univ. Siena)
""Artefacts and instruments for mediating mathematical meanings"
Reactor:
Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (IUFM Reims)

Coffee break
10.15-10.30

Invited lectures
10.30-12.00
Theme 2: "Ordinary and innovative practices in the classroom of mathematics"
Lecturers:
Claire Margolinas (INRP, UMR, ADEF, Marseille) ""What mathematical knowledge does the teacher need?"
Ornella Robutti (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino)
"Interactions in classroom with technologies: signs and meanings"
Reactor:
Paolo Boero (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Genova)

Round tables
12.05-13.05
""Should we propose a unified program for teaching mathematics in Europe?"
Mina Teicher (Dept. Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University), on behalf of the Education Committee of ESM

Lunch
13.05-15.00

Round tables
15.00-15.45
"SFIDA (French-Italian Seminar on the Didactics of Algebra): thirteen years of collaboration and interactions"
Ferdinando Arzarello (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino)
Gian Paolo Chiappini (ITD-CNR, Genova)
Jean-Philippe Drouhard (IUFM-IREM, Nice)

Special Session: Early Birds

15.45-16.15
Bettina Pedemonte, Elisabetta Robotti (ITD-CNR, Genova)
""Achieved competencies within an exchange between Italy and France"

Coffee break
16.15-16.30

Contributed Papers (two parallel sessions: room 1 and room 4, 2 ^nd floor

16.30-17.00
Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (IUFM, Reims), room 4:
"The Casyopée project: computer symbolic computation for students' better access to algebraic notation and rich mathematic".
Giorgio T. Bagni (Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Univ. di Udine), room 1:
"Didactics and history of numerical series: Grandi, Leibniz and Riccati, 100 years after Ernesto Cesaro's death"

17.00-17.30
Mario Barra (Dipartimento di Matematica, Univ. La Sapienza, Roma), room 4:
"Dynamic and innovative aspects in dynamic geometry software"
Nadia Douek (IUFM, Nice), room 1:
""Language, experience of activity, and theorisation at early stages"


17.30-18.00
M. Cerulli , J.F. Georget, M. Artigue, R.M. Bottino, Chaachoua H, M.A. Mariotti, M. Maracci, B. Pedemonte, E. Robotti, J. Trgalova (TELMA European Research Team), room 4:
"KALEIDOSCOPE: Network of Excellence"
Bruno D'Amore (Univ. Bologna) and Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla, room 1:
""How the sense of mathematical objects changes when their semiotic representations undergo treatment or conversion"

18.00-18.30
George Santi and Silvia Sbaragli (NRD-Bologna), room 4:
"Semiotic representations and avoidable miconceptions"
Maria Polo (Dipartimento di Matematica , Università di Cagliari), room 1:
""Analysis of the teacher position in the coaching of classroom practises: official and real curriculum"

18.30-19.00
Giovannina Albano (Univ. Salerno), Pier Luigi Ferrari (Università del Piemonte Orientale), room 4:
"The impact of e-learning on mathematics education: some experiences at university level"
Caterina Vicentini (Istituto d'Arte "Max Fabiani"- Gorizia, Nucleo di ricerca in didattica della matematica, Università di Udine), room 1:
""From ? to aleph through the theatre: a way to avoid didactical frauds and pseudostructured assurances"