ALM5 Conference
|
ALM5 Conference |
|
| The 5th International Conference on Adults Learning Mathematics |
| was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 1 - 3 July, 1998 |
(last update December 28, 2001)
| Local Organiser: | |
| Mieke van Groenestijn | |
| Utrecht University of Professional Education, | |
| Faculty of Education | |
| List of Presenters | |
| Opening keynote address: | |
| Numeracy Education and Empowerment: Research challenges | |
| Iddo Gal, University of Haifa, Israel | |
| Second keynote address: | |
| Everyday Mathematics and Adult Mathematics Education | |
| Analucia Schliemann, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA | |
| Plenary Session: | |
| Adult Numeracy: an International Comparison | |
| Stan Jones (Statistics Canada, Canada) | |
| Willem Houtkoop, Max Goote Kenniscentrum, The Netherlands | |
| Plenary Session: | |
| Key principles for designing effective South African Inset curricula | |
| Hugh Glover, University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa | |
| Understanding graphs in Adult Mathematics Education | |
| Esther Leonelli, Community Learning Center, Cambridge, MA, USA | |
| Tom Macdonald, Family College, Cambridge, MA, USA | |
| Ricardo Nemirovsky, TERC, Cambridge, MA, USA | |
| Analucia Schliemann, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA | |
| Mary Jane Schmitt, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA | |
| Janet Sebell, Bridgewater State College, USA | |
| 'ALM' as a community of practice and research | |
| Roseanne Benn, University of Exeter, UK | |
| Juergen Maasz , University of Linz, Austria | |
| Tine Wedege , Roskilde University, Kopenhagen, Denmark | |
| Count on me | |
| Wim Matthijsse, National Center for Innovation, Research and Development for Adult Education, Den Bosch, Netherlands | |
| Virtual mathematics workshop | |
| Harrie Sormani, National Center for Innovation, Research and Development for Adult Education, Den Bosch, Netherlands | |
| Teaching and Learning Mathematics through art: A multicultural approach | |
| Eliana Maria Guedes, Regina Maria Zandonadi, Diomar Cesar Lobao, University of Taubate - Unitau - Brazil | |
| Adult Maths and Everyday Life: Building Bridges, Facilitating 'Transfer' | |
| Jeff Evans, Mathematics & Statistics Group, Middlesex University, UK | |
| Getting at Adult Basic Education Students' Sturdy Strategies: a Pilot Study | |
| Mary Jane Schmitt, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA | |
| Developing the concepts of Multiply and Divide | |
| Ruth Polkinghorne, Bath, UK | |
| Who is an Adult? How does the definition affect our practice? | |
| Kathy Safford, St. Peter’s College, New Jersey, USA | |
| The roles of feelings and logic and their interaction in the solution of everyday problems | |
| Dhamma Colwell, King’s College, University of London, UK | |
| Useful mathematics for (technical) vocational education | |
| Henk van der Kooij, Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| Mathematics, class and lifelong learning | |
| Roseanne Benn, University of Exeter, UK | |
| The practice of Independent Learning in Adult Basic Education | |
| Mieke de Laat, Simone van Duin, Frank Haacke, Riny Beckers, Nettie van Leek, Regional Center for Adult Education, Eindhoven, Netherlands | |
| Whose Numeracy? | |
| Dhamma Colwell, King's College, University of London, UK | |
| Janet Duffin, University of Hull, UK | |
| Sue Elliott, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK | |
| A Numeracy Curriculum | |
| Dave Tout and Beth Marr, Language Australia Victoria, Australia | |
| Foundation Maths and Portfolio Assessment: an Irish Experience | |
| Noel Conneran, City of Limerick Vocational Education Committee, Ireland | |
| John O’Donoghue, University of Limerick, Ireland | |
| Learning to learn other people’s knowledge - acquiring self-sufficiency in a math classroom | |
| Brian G. Cann, University of Maryland, Heidelberg, Germany | |
| Can skills acquired by learning mathematics be used in learning other topics? | |
| Bert Imandt, Regional Center for Adult Education, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| A democratic classroom, but who speaks 'loudest'? | |
| Alison Tomlin, King’s College, University of London, UK | |
| Application of Number in Vocational Training | |
| David Kaye, City of Westminster College, London, UK | |
| The effect of gender and fluency in English on the mathematical confidence and achievement in a realistic mathematics course | |
| Barbara Miller, University of Auckland, New Zealand | |
| On the Relationship between cognitive and affective components of learning mathematics | |
| Wolfgang Schloeglmann, University of Linz, Austria | |
| Common sense or good sense? Ethnomathematics and the Prospects for a Gramscian Politics of Adults' Mathematics Education | |
| Diana Coben, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK | |
| Teaching
mathematics across the undergraduate curriculum: an investigation into
how specialist and non-specialist teachers of mathematics
explain successful teaching experiences, and how
difficulties in teaching mathematics are perceived. |
|
| Pat Drake, University of Sussex Institute of Education, Falmer, Brighton, UK | |
| Parents as Resources for Mathematical Instruction | |
| Marta Civil and Rosi Andrade, University of Arizona, USA | |
| Video conference ALM - BMN | |
| Building Maths Bridges | |
| Janet Taylor, Marilyn Dorman and Joan Mohr, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 4350 | |
| Discussion about the theme: | |
| Maths as Part of Lifelong Learning | |
| Sylvia Johnson, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK | |