The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908-2008: People, Events, and Challenges in Mathematics Education

ISBN-13: 9783031043123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 764 str.

Fulvia Furinghetti; Livia Giacardi

Opis

The book presents the history of ICMI trough a prosopographical approach. In other words, it pays a lot of attention to the actors of the International movement. The portraits of the members of the ICMI Central Committees (1908-1936) and ICMI Executive Committees (1952-2008), and other eminent figures in ICMI history, who have passed away in the first 100 years of its life, are the guiding thread of the volume. Each portrait includes:
·         Biographical information ·         An outline of the various contributions made by the individual in question to the study of problems pertaining to mathematics teaching/education·         Primary bibliography·         Secondary with particular attention to the publications concerning the teaching of mathematics·         Images: photos, book frontispieces, relevant manuscriptsThe authors of the portraits (30 altogether) are researchers in the history of mathematics, mathematics, and mathematics education. The focus on the officer’s role within ICMI and on his/her contributions to mathematics education, make the portraits different from usual biographies. In particular, since most officers were active mathematicians, the portraits shed light on aspects of their lesser-known activity. Connecting chapters place the action of these figures in the historical context and in the different phases of ICMI history.

Recenzje

"The book is a testament to the thousands of hours invested by the editors to record and share the history of ICMI with anyone who has an interest in mathematics education. Its focus on primary sources and data nicely complements the varied perspectives found in The First Century. Thus, it is worth acquiring by any college or university library with a mathematics education program and by historians of mathematics education." (Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, MAA Reviews, July 15, 2023)

Spis treści

Fulvia Furinghetti • Livia Giacardi

Editors

The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908-2008: people, events, and challenges in mathematics education

Preface ………………

Fulvia Furinghetti and Livia Giacardi

Abbreviations and Acronyms ………………

Contents

Part I   ICMI 1908-2008

1   The History of ICMI: the First Phase as IMUK and CIEM ………………

Gert Schubring

 

2   ICMI in the 1950s and 1960s: Reconstruction, Settlement, and “Revisiting Mathematics Education” ………………

Fulvia Furinghetti and Livia Giacardi

 

 3   The New Life of ICMI: Pursuing Autonomy and Identifying New Areas of Action ……………

Marta Menghini 

4   The Voice of the Protagonists. A Selection of Unpublished Letters ..

Livia Giacardi

Part II   Events and Data

5   Timeline of ICMI 1908-2008 ………………

Fulvia Furinghetti and Livia Giacardi

 

6   Central and Executive Committees of CIEM/IMUK and ICMI .…

Fulvia Furinghetti

 

7   The Terms of Reference for ICMI (1954-2007) ………………

Livia Giacardi

 

8   Mathematics Education in the International Congresses of Mathematicians 1897-2006 ….

Fulvia Furinghetti

 

9   Maps on the Process of Internationalization of ICMI ………………

Livia Giacardi 

 

10   The Beginning of an Adventure. Glances at the First ICME (Lyon 1969)

Fulvia Furinghetti

Part III   The Biographical Portraits of the Central/Executive Committee Members and Other Eminent Figures

Central/Executive Committee Members ………………

Eminent figures ………………

About the Authors ………………

Name Index ………………

O autorze

Fulvia Furinghetti is a retired professor of mathematics education at the University of Genoa (Italy). Her research concerns mathematics education (computer science in mathematics teaching, proof, beliefs, teacher education, history in mathematics teaching, and public image of mathematics) and the history of mathematics education. She was one of the organizers of the celebrations of the Centenary of the journal L’Enseignement Mathématique in 2000 and the Centenary of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) in 2008. In both cases, she was one of the editors of the proceedings. With Livia Giacardi, she has developed a website on the history of the first hundred years of ICMI. In 2001-2004 she chaired the International Study Group on History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM) affiliated to ICMI.

Livia Giacardi is a full professor of History of Mathematics at the University of Turin. Her research focuses on the history of mathematics – in particular on the history of geometry in Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries – and on the history of mathematics education. She has been the Secretary of the Italian Society for the History of Mathematics (2000-2008), and a member of the Council (2000-2017); a member of the Italian Commission for Mathematics Teaching (2003-2012); and a member of the IPC of the Symposium on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of ICMI (2008) and was one of the editors of the proceedings. With Fulvia Furinghetti, she has developed a website on the history of the first hundred years of ICMI.

Blurb

The purpose of this volume is to understand and outline the evolution of the objectives and field of action of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) from its creation in 1908 in Rome until 2008, through an analysis of the main events and protagonists of its history. It consists of three parts, each exploring different facets of these hundred years of ICMI’s life.

In Part I, four chapters retrace the three main phases in the century of ICMI's life: The foundation and early period up to WWI (Chapter 1); The rebirth in 1952 as a permanent subcommission of the International Mathematical Union and the broadening of the scope of action until Freudenthal’s innovations (Chapter 2); The “Renaissance” in the late 1960s and further development up to 2008 (Chapter 3). Chapter 4 presents a wide selection of unpublished letters and documents belonging to the period 1908-1974, coming from different archives, especially from the IMU Archives in Berlin.

Part II presents useful data about the life of ICMI: The Timeline of ICMI, 1908-2008; The Central and Executive Committees of the Commission (1908 -2009); The Terms of Reference for ICMI (1954-2007); Mathematics Education in the International Congresses of Mathematicians (1897-2006); Maps on the process of internationalization of ICMI; Data concerning the first ICME (Lyon 1969).

Part III contains biographical portraits of the 54 members of the Central/Executive Committee of ICMI who passed away in the first hundred years of the Commission, and also includes the portraits of scholars awarded the title of Honorary Member of the Commission during the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo (1936), and of Charles-Ange Laisant, one of the founders of the journal L’Enseignement Mathématique, the official organ of ICMI. The portraits in Part III of the volume are designed according to a particular point of view because they focus on the actual involvement of these scholars in ICMI’s development and, more generally, in mathematics education.