Stochastical Thinking, Learning, and Teaching Discussion Group for PME25
PME STL Discussion Group for PME-25
The PME International Committee has given permission to run the PME STL Discussion Group again for the meeting in Utrecht from Thursday 12 July to Tuesday 17 July 2001.PME-25 will be organized by the Freudenthal Institute (FI). The conference will be held at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The First Announcement will be released in September 2000.
Kath & John Truran. will attend to PME25 and they coordinate the meeting. .
Our discussions will be on the relationship between stochastical and mathematical thinking, learning, and teaching. We consider that there is more on this theme which can usefully be discussed. It is our intention to approach this theme from multiple perspectives, including:
• Philosophical, in terms of the perceived boundaries of the disciplines.
• Historical, in terms of the developments of the disciplines.
• Educational, in terms of the positioning and implementation of the teaching and learning of stochastics within school and tertiary curricula, including such fundamental issues as teacher development, assessment, and technology.
• Psychological, in terms of the specific cognitive and sociocultural processes involved in the teaching and learning of stochastics.
• Research, in terms of cross-fertilization of theoretical frameworks and methodologies.
All members who intend to be at PME25 are invited to make a short presentation (10 minutes) on some aspect of the theme. This would be followed by 20-30 minutes discussion. Please make submissions to Kath at <truranjk@camtech.net.au>. It would be good if we could have advance notice before the next Newsletter at the end of November.
The co-ordinators for this proposed Discussion Group are:
Antonio Estepa (Spain) aestepa@ujaen.es
Brian Greer (Ireland) swapnam@eartlink.net
Kath Truran (Australia) truranjk@camtech.net.au
John Truran (Australia) truranjk@camtech.net.au
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