Hartwig Meissner (July 10, 2011)
Creativity
and
the Education of Gifted Students
 
in Mathematics  Education


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Conferences and Activities in the Past

A. International Conference on "Creativity and Mathematics Education"
        (July 15-19,1999 in Muenster, Germany)

You may study the  program, described in a short, in the first and, in the second announcement. There also is a summary with the results of the conference and with more details how to get the proceedings.
 

B. Topic Study Group No. 16 at ICME 9:
    Creativity in Mathematics Education and the Education of Gifted Students
       (31 July - 6 August 2000 in Tokyo, Japan)

You may study the  program, described in the announcement and a short summary report.

C. Mathematics Education Study Group (MESG)
       (August 7-8, 2000 in Tokyo, Japan)

A very interesting conference of a group of Japanese colleagues where I had the honour to give the plenary lecture on "Creativity in Mathematics Education". MESG has published the conference proceedings also in English. For more details you may ask the president of MESG, Prof. Kiyoshi Yokochi.
 

D. NAGC 48th Annual Convention
       (November 7 - 11, 2001 in Cincinnati, Ohio USA)

Professor Linda Sheffield from Northern Kentucky University  initiated that the National Association for Gifted Children of the USA (NAGC) on its annual meeting in 2001 had an international special strand on "Math for High Ability Students". More information on  NAGC can be found at http://www.nagc.org/index.html
 

E. Resources ...

a website for parents, teachers, and gifted, talented, creative and promising mathematics students, put together from Professor Linda Sheffield from Northern Kentucky University
 

F. International Conference on
    Creativity in Mathematics Education and the Education of Gifted Students
       (July 15 - 19, 2002 in Riga, Latvia)

This conference was organized by Agnis Andzans and his team. Brilliant ideas came together. About 40 people from 15 countries discussed  the role of creativity and the role of competitions on  future developments in mathematics education. There are proceedings available (130 pages, 5 US$ + postage) via  Agnis Andzans  or  Hartwig Meissner or Emiliya Angelova Velikova.


G. The Third International Conference on
    "Creativity in Mathematics Education and the Education of Gifted Students"
       (3 - 9 August 2003   in Rousse, Republic of Bulgaria)

was organized with great success by Emiliya Angelova Velikova and her staff at the University of Rousse. For more details see http://www.cmeegs3.rousse.bg
 

H. ICME 10
        In 2004 at ICME 10 in Copenhagen (Denmark) Linda K. Sheffield (Chair), Hartwig Meissner (Germany) and Foong Pui Yee (Singapore) run a workshop on two days on "creativity in mathematics education"  with about 50 participants. In Copenhagen there also was a discussion among experts how to continue the exchange of ideas and experiences in the field of creativity in mathematics education. To get closer contacts to colleagues from South East Asia  / Australia it was recommended to attend EARCOME 3 in 2005 in Shanghai (see below).

I. EARCOME 3   -   Symposium on Creativity
       (August 7 - 12, 2005 in Shanghai, China)

     One of the strands of the International Conference EARCOME 3 was a special "Symposium on Creativity in Mathematics Education" (invited Chairs: Hartwig Meissner (Germany), Linda Sheffield (USA) and Tomoko Yanagimoto (Japan)). In Session I (2 hours, about 120 participants) we had 8 paper presentations and in Session II (1.5 hours, about 50 participants) we had a Round Table Discussion focusing on "Students' Creative Abilities in Mathematics Teaching and Learning - the Views from West and East". The conference papers were published in advance on a CD. There will be an additional book "Proceedings of EARCOME 3" with some of the most important papers from the conference and with a summary and with the results. For more details see the EARCOME 3 web page.

J. NAGC 52nd Annual Convention
       (November 9 - 13, 2005 in Louisville, Kentucky USA)

The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC, United States) featured a special strand on "Advanced Math and Science" at the annual convention this year in Louisville. We really had a large strand with many mathematics and science educators from around the world. Linda Sheffield was one of the key persons to initiate this strand and we thank her all for that great exchange of ideas and  experiences. For more details see http://www.nagc.org .


NAGC New Development:

NAGC has decided that starting in 2005 they will have a permanent strand on advanced math and science at all Annual Conferences.
For more details see http://www.nagc.org .


K. Fourth International Conference on
    Creativity in Mathematics Education and the Education of Gifted Students
       (July 5 - 8, 2006 in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic) 

This conference was excellently organized by Alena Hospesova and her team in a very attractive old city. There were about 40 participants from 22 countries to present a broad range of  interesting lectures and workshops. Thank you to Alena and to your friendly colleagues! From the conference there are still proceedings available, please contact Alena Hospesova .

L. Fifth International Conference on
        Creativity in Mathematics Education and the Education of Gifted Students
            (Febr. 24 - 28, 2008 in Haifa, Israel)  

Hosts of the conference were  the University of Haifa (Febr. 24, 25), the MOFET Association (Febr. 26) and  the Technion (Febr. 27, 28). For more details see the conference announcements or write to the Chair of the conference Roza Leikin or her team  (University of Haifa). There are conference proceedings available. The papers are available also on the conference website.


M. 11th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME 11)
              (July 6 - 13, 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico)

ICME 11 hosted many different activities like lectures, workshops, topic study groups and discussion groups. Especially we will mention here two special activities:
 Nearly 100 people from around the world participated in this group as authors and/or active discussants. The Organizing Team consisted of the Co-chairs Emiliya Velikova (Bulgaria) and Linda Sheffield (USA) and the team members Hartwig Meissner (Germany), Foong Pui Yee (Singapore), and Kim Soo Hwan (Korea). Emily Velikova, with help from Agnis Andzans from Latvia, have done an outstanding job of formatting and posting all the excellent papers that have been submitted. These Proceedings are published now. All papers also are available via internet: http://dg.icme11.org/tsg/show/10. To get a survey of the papers we recommend to study first the summary report from Linda Sheffield.

Another ICME activity which is related to creativity in mathematics education was the For more details see the TSG6 website.

N.   CIEAEM 61
        61st meeting of  the International  Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching
        Montreal, Canada, July 26 - 31 2009
        Chair of the conference: Louise Poirier and her team

CIEAEM chose in the 2009 conference the theme “Mathematical Activity in Classroom Practice and as Research Object in Didactics: Two Complementary Perspectives”. One of the five sub-themes was Creativity in mathematical activities. Coordinators of this subtheme were Hartwig Meissner and Viktor Freiman. The participants of the working group for this subtheme were invited to reflect on and to discuss how to stimulate creative thinking and how to nurture and support the development of mathematical creativity and the realization of mathematical promise. There were interesting and challenging discussions in a group of more than 25 participants from more than 15 countries.

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O.  2nd International Conference "Gifted Children: Challenges and Possibilities"
        Riga, Latvia, October 11 - 15, 2009 
        For more details see the website of the conference


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