MSU Math Ed Presenting Virtually at ICME-14
The 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education, ICME-14, will be held in Shanghai, China July 11-18, 2021. The conference, postponed from 2020, will have virtual as well as in-person presentations and activities. Several MSU mathematics education faculty and graduate students will be participating virtually.
Valentin Kuechle, mathematics education doctoral student, noted that the T2P project, formally titled
Tracking the Longitudinal Development of STEM Majors’ Autonomy and Agency in Mathematical
Proof and Proving, will be presenting some of its work at ICME. He said, “Specifically, Mariana Levin
(Western Michigan University) will be presenting Conceptualizing agency and autonomy in tertiary mathematics. She is the first author, and her co-authors (in order) are Jack (Smith), Shiv (Karunakaran),
myself, and Sarah (Castle).” He continued, “The goals of the presentation include
sharing our group’s conceptualization of “agency” and “autonomy”—the two central constructs
our group is working on—and getting feedback from the ICME audience.”
Gail Burrill commented, “I am presenting a paper in TSG 12 based on findings from STT 250 titled MARGIN
OF ERROR: CONNECTING CHANCE TO PLAUSIBLE.”
She added, “We are doing two things for the ICME14 Travel Grant awardees. A small subset of volunteers from the awardees will participate virtually in real time. These folks will then shape the program for a "US ICME-14" that will be held for all of the awardees in Atlanta, GA immediately following the NCTM annual meeting on September 25-26. The program will be a combination of sharing what the volunteers learned, a reprise of some of the ICME lectures and talks for those who agree to do so, some networking sessions with educators from the international ICME program, and discussions of how the ideas from ICME can be useful to educators in the US.”
Details about the ICME-14 conference and online meeting days and times can be found on their main conference website.
