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People, events, and documents of ICMI’s first century
No full textOn the occasion of the ICMI centenary the authors of the present paper built the website “The First Century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (1908-2008). History of ICMI,” which contains information and documents about people, events, and bodies intervening in the first century of this Commission. This website offers an effective instrument for revisiting the history of ICMI and reflecting on some key moments. In particular, it makes it possible to identify how the key ideas (internationalization, communication, solidarity) that inspired the founding of ICMI were realized, as well as the how the relationship with the community of mathematicians changed.
In the present paper we walk through the Portrait gallery section of the website, focusing on the presidents of ICMI and their contributions to the evolution of both the Commission’s policies and its methodological approaches to problems, looking at the history of ICMI from the perspective of the men who built it. Moreover, we will present some statistical data concerning the life of ICMI (people, countries, meetings, etc.) and also offer flashes of lesser-known aspects that came to light after a reading of the documents housed in the ICMI Archives in Helsinki
SECONDARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHING FROM THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY IN ITALY
No full textICMI Renaissance: The emergence of new issues in mathematics education
No full textTwo facts mark the emerging of the new status of mathematics education as a scientific discipline: the inauguration in 1969 of the tradition of International Congresses on Mathematical Education (ICMEs), and the contemporary launch of journals related to mathematics education research. The early ICMEs acted as catalysts for new ideas that have their roots in important events that took place in the 1950s and 1960s. As a consequence new issues found their place in the international discussion on mathematics education and opened new lines of research and forms of action inside ICMI, so that we may talk about a genuine ICMI Renaissance. In our contribution we examine the background and circumstances that fostered and shaped the emergence of the new issues that have developed in mathematics education up to the present day
Symposium Celebrating the Centennial of the ICMI (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction) – Rome 5-8 March 2008.
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The first century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. Reflecting and shaping the world of mathematics education
No full textThe volume contains the proceedings of the Symposium held in Rome on March 5th -8th 2008 at Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and l’Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana to celebrate the centennial of the ICMI (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction). The volume represents an important contribution to the discussion on mathematics education: starting out from a historical analysis of the principal themes regarding the activities of the ICMI (curricular overviews, teacher training, relations with mathematical research and applications, and so on), the future directions of research in mathematics education are identified together with the concrete action to be taken in the various countries
Celebrating the first century of ICMI (1908-2008) Some aspects of the history of ICMI
No full textIn this paper we report on the events in 2008 that commemorated the Centennial of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. This celebration offered the occasion to look back at the history of ICMI and outline the evolution of mathematics education until it achieved its present status as an academic discipline. The years after WWII up to the late 1960s were crucial in this evolution for both the settlement of some institutional aspects (mainly concerning the relationship with mathematicians) and the establishment of new trends of the activities. In this paper we outline – on the basis of unpublished documents - the role of two important figures in those years: Heinrich Behnke and Hans Freudenthal. First as secretary and later as president, Behnke faced the difficult task of reshaping the newborn ICMI after WWII and clarifying the relationship with mathematicians. His mission was completed by Freudenthal, who, as president of ICMI, definitively broke with the past and promoted important initiatives that fostered the emergence of mathematics education as an academic field
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