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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.

For lodging and transportation information, and to help select rare books to view at the Huntington, please click here.

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

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

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.