Turin, 23-26 September, 2015
Sala dei Mappamondi – Accademia delle Scienze
Aula Magna dell’Università -Rettorato
Program
Wednesday, 23th September, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Sala dei Mappamondi,
Via Accademia delle Scienze 6 ‒ Torino
09.00-09.30 Registration
09.30-10.15 Opening
10.15-10.50 Gert Schubring (Universität Bielefeld/Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro), Mathematics Teaching in the Process of Decolonization
10.50-11.25 Alexander Karp (Columbia University), On Russia's National Subcommittee
in the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction
11.25-11.50 Coffee break
11.50-12.25 Veronica Gavagna (University of Salerno), A Case Study on the Teaching of
Mathematics in the Italian Renaissance: Niccolò Tartaglia and his ‘General
Trattato’
12.25-13.00 Livia Giacardi (University of Turin), Margherita Raspitzu (University of
Turin), Beppo Levi and the Teaching of Mathematics at the Various School Levels:
Methodological Aspects, Influences of Scientific Research and Publishing Initiatives
13.00-15.00 Lunch
Wednesday, 23th September, Università di Torino, Aula Magna, Via Po 17 - Torino
15.00-15.20 Marta Menghini (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’), Precision and
Approximation Mathematics for Teacher Education: the Lecture Course of Guido
Castelnuovo and the Influence of Felix Klein
15.20-15.40 Fulvia Furinghetti (University of Genoa), Shaping the Identity of
Mathematics Teacher: the Journals Addressed to Mathematics Teaching Published
in Italy After the Unification of the Nation
15.40-16.00 Geert Vanpaemel (KU Leuven), Dirk De Bock (KU Leuven), Intuitive
Geometry in Belgium (1945-1960)
16.00-16.20 Kristín Bjarnadóttir (University of Iceland), Royaumont – Proposals on
Arithmetic and Algebra Teaching
16.20-16.40 Mária Almeida (UIED, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Modern Mathematics
Reform in Portugal: the Preparation of Mathematics Teachers
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16.40-16.55 Posters: Sergey Atanasyan (Moscow City Pedagogical State University),
Ildar Safuanov (Moscow City Pedagogical University), On the History of School
Mathematical Education and Preparing Mathematics Teachers in Moscow during
Social and Economic Changes; Sergey Atanasyan (Moscow City Pedagogical State
University), Ildar Safuanov (Moscow City Pedagogical University), On the History
of Preparing Mathematics Teachers in Moscow in the Last Two Decades (19952015); Nicla Palladino (University of Palermo), Elementary Geometry and
Teaching: from Triangles to Interactive Geometry
16.55-17.10 Coffee break
17.10-17.30 Giuseppe Canepa (University of Genoa), Giuseppina Fenaroli (University of
Genoa), Roberto Scoth (University of Cagliari), Salvatore Ortu Carboni (18591939) and the Debate on the Teaching of Mathematics in the Secondary School in
Italy
17.30-17.50 Johanna Pejlare (University of Gothenburg), On the Relationships between
the Geometric and Algebraic Ideas in Duhre’s Textbooks of Mathematics, as
Reflected Via Book II of Euclid’s Elements
17.50-18.10 Elisa Patergnani (University of Ferrara), The Teaching of Mathematics in the
Italian Artillery Schools in the Eighteenth Century
18.10-18.20 Short break
18.20-18.40 Andreas Christiansen (Stord Haugesund University College), The Function of
a Preface: the Contextual Information and Didactical Foundation Described in the
Preface of a Textbook in Arithmetics from 1825
18.40-19.00 Miguel Picado (National University of Costa Rica), Mathematics Textbooks
for Teacher Training in Spain in the Second half of Nineteenth Century: the Metric
System Implantation
Thursday, 24th September, Università di Torino, Aula Magna, Via Po, 17 - Torino
09.00-09.35 Hélène Gispert (University of Paris Sud), Studying Teaching Journals and
Journals for teachers: a Fruitful Perspective for the History of Circulation of
Mathematics
09.35-10.10 Jenneke Krüger (University of Utrecht), Periodicals for Mathematics
Teachers: the Netherlands, 1754-1904
10.15-10.50 Liliane Alfonsi (University of Paris Sud), French Mathematical Textbooks in
the 18th Century: from “Why?” to “How?” Learn Mathematics
10.50-11.25 Guillaume Moussard (University of Nantes), Standardization of the Place of
Problems in French Geometry Textbooks along 19th Century
11.25-11.50 Coffee break
11.50-12.25 Jeremy Kilpatrick (University of Georgia), Changing Directions: the
“Second Round” of the School Mathematics Study Group
12.25-13.00 Erika Luciano (University of Turin), Mathematics and Race in Turin: the
Jewish Community and the Local Supply of Education (1848-1945)
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13.00-15.00 Lunch
Thursday, 24th September, Università di Torino, Aula Magna, Via Po, 17 - Torino
15.00-15.20 Jenny Boucard (University of Nantes), Number Theory in Teaching
Mathematical Journals: the Case of Nouvelles Annales de Mathématiques (18421927)
15.20-15.40 Chiara Pizzarelli (University of Turin), Teaching of Mathematics in School
Periodicals: the Case of the Piedmont (1849-1894)
15.40-16.00 Klaus Volkert (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), The Rise of „Stoffdidaktik“
in Germany 1950-1980 and the Role Played in it by the Journal Mathematischphysikalische Semesterberichte
16.00-16.20 Jan Guichelaar (University of Amsterdam), Pythagoras, a Dutch
Mathematical Magazine for High School and College Students, and Teachers of
Mathematics
16.20-16.40 Antonio M. Oller (Centro Universitario de la Defensa de Zaragoza), The
Problem Section of El Progreso Matemático
16.40-16.55 Posters: Sergey Atanasyan (Moscow City Pedagogical State University),
Ildar Safuanov (Moscow City Pedagogical University), On the History of School
Mathematical Education and Preparing Mathematics Teachers in Moscow during
Social and Economic Changes; Sergey Atanasyan (Moscow City Pedagogical State
University), Ildar Safuanov (Moscow City Pedagogical University), On the History
of Preparing Mathematics Teachers in Moscow in the Last Two Decades (19952015); Nicla Palladino (University of Palermo), Elementary Geometry and
Teaching: from Triangles to Interactive Geometry
16.55-17.10 Coffee break
17.10-17.30 Luis Puig (University of Valencia), A German in Valencia, Spain. An Episode
of the Teaching of Algebra in 16th Century
17.30-17.50 Olivier Bruneau (University of Lorraine), Maths in Metz: the Circulation of
Mathematics Teachers and Mathematics in Metz (France) around 1800
17.50-18.10 Rita Binaghi (University of Turin), Mathematics, Architecture and
Engineering from the Ancien Régime to 1848
18.10-18.20 Short break
18.20-18.40 Nadine Benstein (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), Descriptive Geometry
as School Subject in Germany
18.40-19.00 João Pedro Xavier (University of Porto), Eliana Manuel Pinho (University of
Porto), Olivier String Models and the Teaching of Descriptive Geometry
Friday, 25th September, Università di Torino, Aula Magna, Via Po, 17 - Torino
09.00-09.35 Ana Millan Gasca (University of Roma Tre), Mathematics and Children's
Minds: the Role of Geometry in the European Tradition from Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi (1746-1827) to Charles Laisant (1840-1920)
09.35-10.10 Evelyne Barbin (University of Nantes), The Role of the ‘Geometrie der Lage’
of Theodor Reye for the Teaching of a «Modern Geometry» (1866-1900)
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10.15-10.50 Harm Jan Smid (TU Delft), Johan Wansink and His Role in Dutch
Mathematics Education
10.50-11.25 Flávia Soares (Universidade Federal Fluminense), The Teaching of
Mathematics in the Periodical Press in Rio de Janeiro in the Nineteenth Century
11.25-11.50 Coffee break
11.50-12.25 Leo Rogers (Mathematics Education Researcher), Research Influence on the
Development of Textbooks for Primary and Secondary Schools in UK (1960-1979)
12.25-13.00 Johan Prytz (Uppsala University), What Was New About New Math? Stability
and Change in Swedish Curriculum Documents and Textbooks, 1962-1980
13.00-15.00 Lunch
Exhibition at the Museo della Scuola e del Libro per l’Infanzia
16.30 Museo Egizio
17.00 Museo del Cinema
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20.30 Social dinner
Saturday, 26th September, Università di Torino, Aula Magna, Via Po, 17 - Torino
09.00-09.35 Gregg De Young (American University of Cairo), Printing Geometry
Textbooks in Persian in 19th Century Iran
09.35-10.10 Kajsa Bråting (Uppsala University), Tove Österman (Uppsala University),
The Development of the Swedish School System in View of John Dewey’s Distinction
between Logical and Psychological Aspects of Learning
10.10-10.45 Susan Monaghan (Syracuse University), Mathematics Textbook Adoptions in
a Large Urban School District in the United States, 1950-2012: Curriculum,
Community or Corporation?
10.45-11.05 Maria T. Sanz Garcia (University of Valencia), Descriptive Problems of
Fractions
11.05-11.25 Ignacio González-Ruiz (University of Salamanca), María Teresa González
(University of Salamanca), Marta Molina (University of Granada), Historical Study
of the Notion of Equivalence Relation on Teachers’ Training in Spain
11.25-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-12.05 Rafaela Silva Rabelo (University of Sao Paulo), Brazilian Educators in the
Teachers College Columbia University: Circulation and Appropriations in
Mathematics Education Field, 1920s and 1930s
12.05-12.25 Rui Candeias (UIED, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Mathematics in
Training Programs for Primary School Teachers (1926-1974)
12.30 Closing
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