Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- A Study Overview
- Mathematics in Different Cultures
- Mathematics for the Public
- Making a Mathematical Exhibition
- The Role of Mathematical Competitions in the Popularization of Mathematics in Czechoslovakia
- Games and Mathematics
- Mathematics and the Media
- Square One TV: A Venture in the Popularization of Mathematics
- Frogs and Candles - Tales from a Mathematics Workshop
- Mathematics in Prime-Time Television: The Story of Fun and Games
- Cultural Alienation and Mathematics
- Solving the Problem of Popularizing Mathematics Through Problems
- Popularizing Mathematics at the Undergraduate Level
- The Popularization of Mathematics in Hungary
- Sowing Mathematical Seeds in the Local Professional Community
- Mathematical News that's Fit to Print
- Christmas Lectures and Mathematics Masterclasses
- Some Aspects of the Popularization of Mathematics in China
FOREWORD
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- A Study Overview
- Mathematics in Different Cultures
- Mathematics for the Public
- Making a Mathematical Exhibition
- The Role of Mathematical Competitions in the Popularization of Mathematics in Czechoslovakia
- Games and Mathematics
- Mathematics and the Media
- Square One TV: A Venture in the Popularization of Mathematics
- Frogs and Candles - Tales from a Mathematics Workshop
- Mathematics in Prime-Time Television: The Story of Fun and Games
- Cultural Alienation and Mathematics
- Solving the Problem of Popularizing Mathematics Through Problems
- Popularizing Mathematics at the Undergraduate Level
- The Popularization of Mathematics in Hungary
- Sowing Mathematical Seeds in the Local Professional Community
- Mathematical News that's Fit to Print
- Christmas Lectures and Mathematics Masterclasses
- Some Aspects of the Popularization of Mathematics in China
Summary
A STUDY AND AN EVENT
This book provides a description of the fifth in the series of ICMI studies. Earlier studies have considered the themes: the influence of computers and informatics on mathematics and its teaching, school mathematics in the 1990s, mathematics as a service subject, and mathematics and cognition. The studies have varied in structure, but most have followed the same general pattern. As a first step, a programme committee appointed by ICMI has met, surveyed the problem area, and produced a discussion document. These documents have sought to identify major questions or challenges to which mathematics educators need to make responses and have invited readers to submit papers describing their reactions and experiences. These papers, along with plenary presentations from specially invited speakers, have then formed the basis for the work of an international symposium.
In the case of this study on the popularization of mathematics, the discussion document, written by A G Howson, J-P Kahane and H Pollak, was first published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. It later appeared in The Bulletin of the IMA, The Notices of the AMS, and in translation.
The response to this paper was most encouraging. Many reactions were submitted to us: so much so that, to our regret, not all those who contributed papers could be invited to participate in the seminar held at Leeds, England, from 17-22 September, 1989. Elsewhere the discussion document provided a basis for local meetings.
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- The Popularization of Mathematics , pp. vii - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990
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