HPM-Americas

The Americas Section of HPM spans an area that is immense both in its physical and cultural dimensions. Our members have a correspondingly wide scope of interests, ranging from scholarly pursuit of knowledge to practical classroom issues. We aim to foster communication and cooperation among our members by means of this website and, where possible, through face-to-face meetings at local, regional or international conferences.

Please view the “What is HPM” page to learn more.

This is the new version of the HPM-Americas website (implemented May 2nd, 2009). You may visit the old website here.

HPM-Americas is pleased to announce a meeting on Saturday and Sunday, October 23-24, 2010, on the campus of CalTech in Pasadena, California. A special feature of this meeting will be a visit to the Huntington Library on Saturday afternoon.

HPM seeks a variety of talks on the history of mathematics, the teaching of mathematics, and the history of teaching mathematics. Talks directly relevant to mathematics classrooms are especially welcome. Talks will be 30-40 minutes long.

The registration fee will be $40 until September 15 and $45 thereafter. For one day attendees, the fee is $30 until September 15 and $35 thereafter. The fee includes lunches on both Saturday and Sunday.  Registration checks should be made out to Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, Treasurer, HPM and mailed to:

Amy Ackerberg-Hastings
5908 Halsey Road
Rockville, MD 20851

Because of time constraints, we cannot guarantee that all submissions for talks will be accepted. Priority will be given to speakers who have not spoken at recent HPM meetings. Prospective speakers should send a title and abstract, as well as their own contact information to Dave Roberts at

robertsdl@aol.com

The program of delivered talks can be found here.  The minutes of the business meeting are here.

The following speakers have made available versions of their presentations for viewing or downloading. Click on each title:

Bob Stein,  History in a Math Course for Teachers: How and Why

Uffe Jankvist, Designing teaching modules on the history and  philosophy of mathematics – a report from an in-progress study in Danish high schools

Andy Fiss, Effects of the Civil War on College-Level Math Education

Jim Tattersall,  Mathematical Department of the Yates County Chronicle

George Rosenstein, The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus through the eyes of Granville, Smith, and Longley

Ilhan M. Izmirli, Egyptian Unit Fractions – An Existence Theorem

Roman Sznajder, 90^th anniversary of emergence of the Polish School of Mathematics; Polish mathematics between the world wars

Jerry Lodder,  Deduction Through the Ages:  Teaching Elementary Logic via Primary Historical Sources. Professor Lodder states that any instructor is welcome to use this material in the classroom.

Dave Roberts, WFF ‘N PROOF and the climate for Mathematical Recreations in the 1950s and 60s

Please download this file here for information on the HPM related activity of Working Group 12 on ‘History in Mathematics Education’ at CERME7, the meeting of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, in Rezeszow, Poland, February 9-13, 2011.  The official CERME7 website can be found here.

Important dates
15th September 2010: Deadline for submission of papers.
1st October 2010: Deadline for submission of poster proposals
22nd October 2010: Deadline for reviewers to submit their reviews.
1st December 2010: Deadline for revisions to papers.
CERME7wg12- Call for papers and poster proposals

Please download this file for information on the 6th European Summer University on the History and Epistemology in Mathematics Education. (The deadline for submission of papers has passed.) It will be held on July 19 – 23, 2010 at Vienna University of Technology.

An excerpt:

“The initiative of organizing a Summer University (SU) on the History and Epistemology in
Mathematics Education belongs to the French Mathematics Education community, in the early 1980’s.
From those meetings emerged the organization of a SU on a European scale, as the European Summer
University (ESU) on the History and Epistemology in Mathematics Education, starting in 1993. Since
then, ESU was successfully organized in 1996, 1999, 2004 and 2007 at different places in Europe1 and
has been established into one of the main international activities of the HPM Group. From 2010 onwards
it will be organized every four years, so that every two years there will take place at least one major
international meeting of the Group; namely, ESU and the HPM Satellite Meeting of ICME.”

Website: http://www.algebra.tuwien.ac.at/esu6

The program, photos, and minutes from the HPM 2009 meeting are now available.