Program

TUESDAY, May 29:

09.00 - 10.00Registration and coffee
10.00 - 11.00Opening by Mayor of Education Jane Jegind, Municipality of Odense, Dean of Faculty of Science Henrik Pedersen, University of Southern Denmark and Chair of the Organizational Committee Associate Professor Claus Michelsen, University of Southern Denmark
11.00 - 12.15Plenary lecture 1
  Professor Lyn English, Queensland University of Technology: Mathematical Modelling: Linking mathematics, science, and the arts in the primary curriculum
12.15 - 13.15Lunch
13.15 - 14.45Paper session 1a, math and arts 1:
  • Heinz Schumann: Interactive modelling of concrete arts' objects in the virtual space
  • Michele Emmer: The Mathematics and Art Project
  • Herbert Gerstberger: "Good theory" for "good practice" and vice versa in the combination of science, art and teaching
13.15 - 14.45Paper session 1b, math in multidisciplinary contexts:
  • Mette Andresen and Lena Lindenskov: Multi-disciplinary projects in upper secondary school – new roles for mathematics?
  • Steve Krevisky: Using mathematics and statistics to analyze who are the great sluggers in baseball.
  • Stinne Hørup Hansen: Challenges for interdisciplinary teaching of mathematics and the sciences in Upper Secondary School
14.45 - 15.15Coffee break
15.30 - 17.00Paper session 2a, math, understanding, motivation and empathy:
  • Jessica Carter: Visualization and understanding in mathematics.
  • H. Sepasi: A study of casual relationship between math self-efficacy, math anxiety, math motivation and prior math performance with later math performance in ninth grade high school students.
  • Brian Greer: How many deaths? Teaching for statistical empathy
15.30 - 17.00Paper session 2b, math and science 1:
  • Gesche Pospiech: Mathematical constructs in the physical reality.
  • Claus Michelsen: Promoting students’ interests in mathematics and science through interdisciplinary activities.
  • Astrid Beckmann: Mathematical literacy through scientific themes and methods.
18.00 - 21.00Reception at University of Southern Denmark
22.00 - 23.00Evening stroll through the town of Odense with the night watchman

WEDNESDAY, May 30:

09.00 - 10.15Plenary lecture 2
 Dr. Michiel Doorman, Utrecht University: Learning mathematics through applications by emergent modelling: The case of slope and velocity.
10.15 - 10.45Coffee break
10.45 - 12.15Paper session 3, math and science 2:
  • Marina Rugelj: Giving sense to math formula
  • Franka Miriam Brueckler: Graph theory as a method of improving chemistry and mathematics curricula.
  • Thilo Höfer: Fermat meets Phytagoras
12.15 - 14.00Lunch and maths trail
14.00 - 15.00Paper session 4a, math and arts 2:
  • Wolfgang Mückenheim: The infinite in sciences and arts.
  • Annica Andersson: A cultural visit in mathematics education.
  • Claus Jensen, Hasseris Gymnasium: The geometry of 17th century Dutch perspective boxes.
14.00 - 15.00Paper session 4b, teacher education:
  • Bharath Sriraman: Paradoxes as pathways into polymathy and discovery of mathematical structures.
  • Glenn Gordon Smith: Improving geometric transformation skills of elementary education pre-service teachers: Do spatial skills transfer and generalize?
15.30 - 15.45Coffee break
15.45 - 17.00Plenary lecture 3
  Professor Norma Presmeg, Illinois State University: Mathematics education research embracing arts and sciences
17.00 - 23.00Conference trip to Svanninge Bakker and dinner at Hotel Faaborg Fjord in Faaborg. Svanninge Bakker is called the Alps of Funen. Faaborg is one of the oldest provincial towns in Denmark. The medieval bell-tower soars above the many well preserved townhouses, with their yellow walls and red tile roofs. The town turns its smiling Funen face towards the sea and the South Funen archipelago. During the trip our guide will tell us about a group a Danish painters called the Funen painters , who came to represent an artistic liberation, developed from realistic nature painting.

THURSDAY, May 31:

09.00 - 10.15Plenary lecture 4
  Associate Professor Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Portland State University: The Decorative Impulse: Ethnomathematics and Tlingit Basketry
10.15 - 10.45Coffee break
10.45 - 12.15Paper session 5, math, problem solving and modelling:
  • Viktor Freiman: Building virtual learning community of problem solvers: example of CASMI community.
  • Steffen M. Iversen: Model eliciting activities revisited – a report from a case study of the penalty throw problem.
  • Tine Golež: Cooperation between mathematics and physics teaching – the case of horizontal launch.
12.15 - Closing