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MATHED 2005 Programme

Final programme

Sunday, July 3

Monday, July 4

Chair of the day: Brian Hudson/Mart Laanpere

  • 9.00 Workshops in Viljandi Culture Academy (VCA, see the map): Joint orientation activities for MATHED and LEARN groups (Mart Laanpere, Brian Hudson)
  • 12.30 Lunch in VCA cafeteria
  • 13.30 Workshop: Orientation activities for MATHED group (Brian Hudson)
  • 16.00 Guided tour in Viljandi City
  • 19.00 Dinner (on your own)
  • 20.00 Orientation activities for MATHED group (Brian Hudson)
  • 21.00 Social activities

Tuesday, July 5

Chair of the day: Brian Hudson

  • 9.00 Workshop/lecture: Teaching and learning in the 21st century: on the role of communication, the nature of change and the power of making connections (Brian Hudson)
  • 10.30 Break
  • 11.00 Paper session: (Dimitris Chassapis , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
  • 11.45 Paper session: Knowledge and concepts of rational numbers held by elementary school teachers (Aristarchos Katsarkas , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
  • 12.30 Lunch in VCA cafeteria
  • 13.30 Paper session: The mediation of tools in the construction of the Euclidian concept of a straight line (Nikoletta Ispirlidou , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
  • 14.15 Paper session: Primary school teachers’ discourses of mathematics assessment (Maria Vlachou , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
  • 15.00 Break
  • 15.30 Follow-up workshop activities/Special Interest Group activities
  • 17.00 Reflection session
  • 19.00 Dinner (independent)

Wedensday, July 6

Chair of the day: Václav Sykora

  • 9.00 Paper session: Investigating the role of graphic claculators in mathematical thinking (Spela Tola, University of Ljubljana)
  • 9.45 Paper session: Exploring students’ concepts of division by zero and infinity (Mojca Premuš, University of Ljubljana)
  • 10.30 Break
  • 11.00 Paper session: How middle school students and their teachers promote and inhibit learning how to learn: A phenomenological investigation of a Finnsih case (Erkki Nissinen, University of Helsinki)
  • 11.15 Paper session: Students’ beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics teaching and learning (Kirsti Kislenko, Agder University College)
  • 12.30 Lunch
  • 13.30 Workshops: follow-up activities from paper sessions
  • 15.00 Break
  • 15.30 Special Interest Group activities
  • 17.00 Reflection session
  • 19.00 Dinner (independent)
  • 21.00 Social event at sauna

Thursday, July 7

Chair of the day: Dimitris Chassapis

  • 9.00 Paper session: The sign metaphor in coneptual mathematical images of pupils (Václav Sykora, Charles University Prague)
  • 9.45 Paper session: Didactical games in Mathematics Lessons (Barbora Divišová, Charles University Prague)
  • 10.30 Break
  • 11.00 Workshop: Didactical games in Mathematics Lessons (Hana Klímová, Charles University Prague)
  • 12.30 Lunch in VCA cafeteria
  • 13.30 Workshop: Analysis a-priori of the “Puzzle” activity (Hana Hrabáková, Charles University Prague)
  • 15.00 Break
  • 15.30 Individual consultations with MATHED staff members
  • 17.00 Reflection session
  • 18.30 Bus takes both LEARN and MATHED groups to Männiku forest farm (www.metsatalu.ee)
  • 19.00 Dinner, BBQ, folk music, jam session 
  • 23.00 Bus takes us back to hostels 

Friday, July 8

Chair of the day: Brian Hudson

  • 9.00 Individual consultations with MATHED staff members
  • 10.30 Break
  • 11.00 Individual consultations with MATHED staff members
  • 12.30 Lunch in VCA cafeteria
  • 13.30 Workshop: Peer review of papers
  • 15.00 Break
  • 15.30  Workshop: Peer review of papers
  • 17.30 Bus transfer to Bagpipe Farm
  • 18.30 National style dinner, introduction of bagpipes, sauna, flying with moto-deltaplane (on your own risk and pay)
  • 22.30 Back to Viljandi 

Saturday, July 9

Chair of the day: Brian Hudson

  • 9.00   Special Interest Group activities 
  • 10.30 Break
  • 11.00 Special Interest Group activities  
  • 12.30 Lunch
  • 13.30 Special Interest Group activities 
  • 15:00 Break
  • 15:30 Special Interest Group activities 
  • Bus transfer to city Pärnu
  • 20.00 Back to Viljandi

Sunday, July 10

Monday, July 11

Chair of the day: Zlatan Magajna/Brian Hudson

  • 9.00 Paper session: Computer aided proofs in school geometry (Zlatan Magajna, University of Ljubljana)
  • 9.45 Follow-up workshop activities
  • 10.30 Break
  • 11.00 Special Interest Group Report (I)
  • 12.30 Lunch
  • 13.30 Special Interest Group Report (II)
  • 15.00 Break
  • 15.30 Special Interest Group Report (III)
  • 17.00 Reflection session
  • 19.00 LEARN and MATHED groups joint festive dinner in the restaurant of Grand Hotel Viljandi

Tuesday, July 12

Chair of the day: Brian Hudson/Mart Laanpere

  • 9.00 Checkout, departure to Tallinn
  • 11.00 Check-in to Hotel Dzingel,
  • 11.30 bus transfer to Tallinn University
  • 12.00 LEARN and MATHED joint plenary session in Tallinn University
  • 13.00 Lunch in Tallinn University cafeteria
  • 14.00 Joint plenary session continues
  • 16.00 Guided tour in the Old Town
  • 19.00 Dinner (on your own)

Wednesday, July 13

Chair of the day: Brian Hudson

  • 9.00 Special Interest Groups
  • 10:30 Break
  • 11:00 Special Interest Groups
  • 12:00 Close
  • Departures

 

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