HPM (The International Study Group on the Relations between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics affiliated to ICMI)

Chairperson Fulvia Furinghetti <furinghe@dima.unige.it

Program of the ASG in ICME10 (Copenhagen 2004)

The aims of HPM are well illustrated by recent publications, such as: J. Fauvel & J. Van Maanen (editors), History in mathematics education: the ICMI Study, Kluwer, Dordrecht / Boston / London. HPM Newsletter, regularly appearing three times per year inform about the activities carried out all around the world, see http://www.mathedu-jp.org/hpm/index.htm. To provide further information we take from the presentation of the forthcoming HPM 2004 (ICME 10 Satellite Meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, http://www-conference.slu.se/hpm/index.html) the following motto (by Sten Kaijser): “The spirit of HPM is much more than the use of history in the teaching of mathematics
• it is the conception of mathematics as a living science, a science with a long history, a vivid present and an as yet unforeseen future
• together with the conviction that this conception of mathematics should not only be the core of the teaching of mathematics, but it should also be the image of mathematics spread to the outside world.
Through our common history we see that
• mathematics is the result of contributions from many different cultures
• the teaching of mathematics has developed through the ages
• that mathematics has been in constant dialogue with other sciences
• that mathematics has been a constant force of scientific, technical, artistic and social development.”
The three timeslots scheduled in the program of ICME 10 will be a good occasion to gather the ideas in preparation of Uppsala meeting. The two poles of the ASG meeting in Copenhagen will the past (a balance of what happened) and the future (projects and perspectives). In the following we give the program of the ASG meeting. Contact person: Fulvia Furinghetti <furinghe@dima.unige.it>.

1. First section (Monday, 5 July 2004, 17,30-18,30)
Florence Fasanelli (Associate Program Director AAAS, USA) will give a talk about the history of HPM.
Chair: Fulvia Furinghetti,University of Genova, Italy.
2 . Second session (Wednesday, 7 July 2004, 17;30-18;30)
Ubiratan d'Ambrosio (Brazil) will give a talk on the “Diffusion and popularization of science and mathematics”.
Chair: Costas Tzanakis, University of Crete, Greece.

3. Third session (Saturday, 10 July 2004, 16;30-18;30)
Jan van Maanen (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) will give a talk centered on a survey of what happened after the publication of the ICMI Study, and on the project of a new journal.
Victor Katz (University of the District of Columbia in Washington DC, USA) will report about what happened in the past four years and will survey the future of HPM (plans, works in progress, discussion of new proposals of activities). In this session the group as a whole should be involved in making more suggestions and - hopefully - volunteering to try to make some of the suggestions a reality.
Chair: Man-Keung Siu, University of Hong Kong, China - Hong Kong.