TEACHING MATHEMATICS: RETROSPECTIVE AND PERSPECTIVES 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
14 - 16 May 2009 Tallinn

CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

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Thursday, May 14

 9.30 - 10.30 Registration of participants
Welcome coffee (Athrium)

10.30 - 12.30 Plenary session 1: Didactics of mathematics as a research discipline (room U218)

Opening of the conference

Markku Hannula: International Trends in Mathematics Education Research

Barbro Grevholm: Mathematics Education Research and Researcher Education in the Nordic Countries

12.30 - 13.00 Coffee break(Athrium)

13.00 - 14.30 Plenary session 2: Mathematics education research and researcher education in Baltic countries (room U218)

Ricardas Kudzma: Mathematics education research in Lithuania

Agnis Andzans and Dace Bonka: Mathematics education research in Latvia

Madis Lepik: Mathematics education research in Estonia


14.30 - 15.30 Lunch

15.30 - 17.30 Parallel sessions
P11 - Didactics of mathematics (room U218) P12 - ICT in mathematics education (room U543) P13 - University mathematics teaching (room U340)
Tapio Keranto, Jukka Kohonen: Alternative interpretations and use of the times comparative in everyday language and school mathematics
 Eve Aruvee: Interactive tools in teaching mathematics
 Svetlana Asmuss, Natalja Budkina: Counterexamples in multivariable differential calculus
Inese Melke: Incorrect basic skills formation in elementary school mathematics
 Aija Cunska: Use of ICT in mathematics teaching
 Natalja Budkina, Aija Pola: On some aspects of teaching mathematics to the students of engineering specialties
Nijole Cibulskaite: The development of the mathematics problem-solving skills
 Jüri Kurvits, Marina Kurvits: Blog in school mathematics
Andrejs Cibulis, Halina Lapina: Practical work on series. Educational aspects.
Barbro Grevholm: Teaching Better Mathematics
 Joana Lipeikiene, Antanas Lipeika: Technological Aids of the Learning Cycle in a Blended Teaching of Mathematics
Anda Zeidmane, Ilze Jegere: Forming study modules in the mathematics curriculum development
Edvins Gingulis: Some ideas on teaching mathematics in Latvia in the 1920s - 30s and nowadays
 Indrek Kaldo: Students attitudes to mathematics at university level
Roma Kacinskaite, Anna Vintere: Cross-border cooperation in development of the mathematics study process

19.00 Conference dinner
(Conference dinner takes place in Tallinn Teachers' House that is located in the heart of Tallinn. The address of the House is Town Hall Square 14 (Raekoja plats 14)

Friday, May 15

9.30 - 10.30 Plenary session 3 (Room U218)

Erkki Pehkonen: How Finns learn mathematics: what is the influence of 25 years of research in mathematics education?

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break(Athrium)

11.00 - 12.30 Parallel sessions
P21 - Didactics of mathematics (room U342) P22 - Didactics of mathematics (room U213) P23 - University mathematics teaching (room U340)
Jüri Kurvits: Students' understandings of rational number representations
 Juozas Juvencijus Macys: School proof of the irrationality of number pi
 Yuri Kochetkov: Possibilities of using mathematical models in teaching students
Anna Lundberg, Kirsti Hemmi: Proportion in Swedish upper secondary school textbook tasks
 Grigorii Melnichenko: When the n-th root of a sum of two squares is a sum two squares?
 Vladimir Labeev, Tatjana Shamshina: A student for math or math for a student?
Tapio Keranto, Vesa-Matti Sarenius: The number line as a teaching aid in the grades 1-2: textbook analysis and pupil interview
 Liene Millere: Mathematical content and methodology diverse choice opportunities in the theme "Mathematical judgments, statements and proofs" for the 10th grade
Olga Liivapuu, Olga Panova: Role of formal lectures in teaching mathematics for engineers and economists
Elts Abel: Mental Calculation Methods Used by 6th and 7th Year Students
 Romuldas Kashuba: Between easy and nice
 Olga Suboc: Perception of mathematics of future engineers
Ellen Redi: Heronian triangles, Heronian triples and divisibility of integers
Ingrida Veilande: The mean value method in problems of algorithmic type


12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15.00 Parallel sessions
P31 - Didactics of mathematics (room U213) P32 - Extracurricular activities (room U439) P33 - ICT in mathematics education (room U543)
Kirsti Kislenko: Using the Likert scale in educational research
 Pavel Shmakov, Natalia Slepova: Math club's educational space modeling
 Grigorii Melnichenko: Use Lazarus IDE for training of objective oriented programming
Tiiu Kaljas: Mathematics Teacher Training in Tallinn University in 1919-2009
 Laila Racene, Zane Kaibe: Repetition is the mother of the knowledge
 Raitis Ozols: About problems arising when graphs of functions are created using software packages
Vaira Karklina: Education of mathematics teachers in Liepaja University
 Andrejs Cibulis: Three Color Problem and its usage in work with pupils and students
 Vahur Vaiksaar, Rein Prank: Operations with fractions in learning environment T-algebra
Gunta Lace: The criteria for the evaluation of professional competence of the math teachers. The competence in math didactics
Nikolay Zimakov, Pavel Shmakov: Teaching mathematics: puzzles and fairy-tale problems

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break(Athrium)

15.30 - 17.00 Plenary session 4: Developments of school mathematics in Baltic countries (room U218)
Eugenijus Stankus and Albina Vilimiene: Mathematics Education in Lithuania

Janis Mencis and Laura Freija: Mathematics Education in Latvia

Lea Lepmann, Tiit Lepmann and Jüri Afanasjev: Mathematics Education in Estonia


Closing of the conference

18.00 Sight seeing trip
(Excursion takes place on Friday, 15th of May, starting at 18.00 in front of the Uus-Sadama building. The excursion includes a bus tour with English-speaking guide around Tallinn for 1.5 hours.)

Saturday, May 15

In addition to the regular conference the Research Seminar will be organised on May 16.
The aim of that half- day seminar is to initiate joint Nordic-Baltic comparative research projects in different areas of mathematics education. The proposed topics for the projects will be:

- proof and proving in school mathematics
- mathematics teachers' educational beliefs
- mathematics textbooks

Experienced researchers from Nordic countries will act as project leaders; they will also be responsible for methodology and general planning of the project. All researchers from Baltic countries interested in those topics are invited to participate. As the result we plan to have a conference and publish some papers or issue a book on it.

10.00- 10.30 Introduction room U648
Main aims of our seminar, possible forms of work, ideas about outcomes; introduction of three group leaders; practical information

10.30- 13.30 Work in three groups
* Belief research - room U648
* Proof and proving - room U632
* Textbook research - room U649

Group leader's presentation: Introduction of the topic, overview of research done in this particular area.
General discussion: group members express their interests and describe research they have done; planning of joint project

13.30- 14.00 Final joint session room U648
The groups will present their plans.

  Last changes made on 10. may 2009 by Tõnu Tõnso (tonu@tlu.ee)