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Date sent: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:04:41 -0500
From: "A.J.OLDKNOW" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ICTMT-5 Klagenfurt, Austria
I wrote to some of you earlier to draw this conference to your attention, and
particularly the strand on Dynamic Geometry Software which I am organising (see
below). The web-site has now been updated: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/ictmt5/
Also the timescale for contributions has been amended: abstracts are needed by
March 31st, with the full paper by July 10th.
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Dear friends and colleagues
I would like to draw to your attention the Working Group on Dynamic Geometry
Software (DGS) which I am helping to organise within the framework of this
year's International Conference on Teaching Mathematics with Technology, to be
held in Klagenfurt, Austria during 6th-9th August 2001. I am appending a
description of the working group below, which will soon also appear on the
conference web-site: http://www2.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/ictmt5/ The web-site gives
you full information about the conference, the locality, the programme, and how
to propose contributions.
I would very much like to encourage you to consider making a contribution
to this group, and/or bringing it to the attention of your own contacts,
colleagues and friends who might also be interested in participating. I
think we have an excellent opportunity to come and work together in order
to better inform the mathematics education community about what can be, and is
being, achieved with existing geometry software tools - and what the future may
hold.
I very much hope to have the opportunity to meet you in Klagenfurt this
summer.
Best wishes
Adrian Oldknow
(Honorary chair of ICTMT5)
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__________ DGS - Dynamic Geometry Software Chair: Adrian Oldknow, University
College Chichester, UK. For any enquiries relating to this special group, please
do not hesitate to contact the chair. If you would like to make a contribution
to this special group, please also contact the chair: [log in to unmask]
DGS Dynamic Geometry Software Special Group
· Philosophy:
There is little agreement internationally about what should constitute the
geometrical part of either the school, college or university mathematics
curriculum. In many countries the trend has been away from the abstract
axiomatic and formal approaches adopted in the middle of the 20th Century. So
what is the rationale for geometry in the curriculum for the 21st Century? To
some extent this must depend on what geometry is teachable to modern students.
Here progress in computer software for geometry has a significant role to play.
The community needs to know what exists, how it is used, how effective it is,
what is being developed, and what could be developed. The aim of this special
group is to exchange this kind of information and to collate it in a form which
should help inform decision makers as well as providing a useful point of
reference for all concerned with improving teaching and learning.
· Special Group Activity:
By "DGS" we mean any computer based tool with which a learner can interact
dynamically to explore geometric representations. Contributions are invited
which have either a technical or an educational focus or both. Contributions
will be welcomed from developers of such software tools, including Java applets
and web-based materials as well as software packages for 2D, 3D and nD Euclidean
and non-Euclidean geometries. Contributions will also be welcomed from
researchers who have conducted studies on the use of such tools to support
learning in geometry by e.g. school pupils, undergraduate students, trainee
teachers and teachers in post. Where possible information about the impact
(actual or planned) on curriculum development should be provided.
· Call for Papers:
We would like to encourage all those concerned with the educational use of
informatics (known also as IT, or ICT) to enhance the teaching and learning of
geometry to submit papers describing their work and analysing its outcomes.
Presentations will be particularly welcome which provide practical
demonstrations of the software together with examples of its educational use.
· Paper Submission:
Please submit papers on any aspect of DGS, in English, to the chair via an
email attachment to - see
http://www2.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/ictmt5/d_call/2info/ and
http://www2.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/ictmt5/d_call/3form/
Register for the conference soon.
· Scheduled Presentations Times:
Tuesday, August 7, 2001, from 10:30 - 11:15 and 16:15 - 17:00
Wednesday, August 8, 2001, from 10:30 - 11:15
Thursday, August 9, 2001, from 10:30 - 11:15
Thursday, August 9, 2001, Summary and discussion of paper for proceedings,
16:15 - 17:00
More information: [log in to unmask]
Adrian Oldknow
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Computing Education
University College Chichester
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