The group has had more than 100 participants and the program has been organized as follows in 3 two-hours sessions:
3 half-an-hour lectures:
F.Arzarello, Critical issues for Mathematics Education in the Junior Secondary School;
P.Boero, Approaching Mathematical Theories in Junior Secondary School;
R.Billstein, On United States Curriculum’s Answer to The Transition from Junior Secondary School to Senior Secondary School;
5 twenty-minutes presentations:
Maurice Starck, First Reduce A Triangle… (An Exploration around The Thales Property);
Koji Nakagomi, Gathering Circles, It Is The Teaching Material Which Keeps Crea tivity and Variety;
Veronica Diaz & Alvaro Poblete, Solving Types of Problems: Its Evaluation in Geometry in Chile;
Hironori Osawa, Exploration of The Best Baton-Passing in The Relay Race. An Example of The Development of Integrated Learning Focused on Mathematics;
Harry Silferberg, The Conceptual Geometric Knowledge of Pupils in The Upper Level of Comprehensive School in Finland;
2 fifty-minutes, workshops:
Gill Beeney, Roger Beeney, Pamela Leon, Jane Smith & Carolyn Starkey, Supporting Interactive Teaching in Junior Secondary School;
3 parallel eighty-five minutes subgroup discussions:
Unifying concepts
Curriculum
Goals and Methods
1 plenary final seventy minutes discussion.