香港浸會大學，賽馬會師生活動中心， 109 室

Practicing skills in mathematical and real contexts

Prof. Erich Ch. Wittmann (http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/mitarbeiter_Erich_Wittmann.html) is currently professor emeritus at the Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany. He published extensively on mathematics education in the past forty years and served as a member of the Editorial Board of one of the world’s leading mathematics education journal, Educational Studies in Mathematics Education , from 1977 to 1990.

In 1998, the University of Kiel bestowed upon him the honorary doctorate for his pace-setting work in mathematics education. As a frequent speaker in national and international conferences, he delivered one of the four plenary lectures at ICME 9, Japan 2000, which can be seen as a further confirmation of his high academic reputation. Prof. Wittmann’s research is based on a view of mathematics education as a "design science". This approach has been put to practice in the project “mathe 2000” (http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/didaktik/mathe2000/engl.html). Since its inception in 1987 this project has attracted world-wide attention for its highly innovative curriculum development.

Many people think that it is too demanding to require elementary school pupils to prove a statement. If “proving” could be regarded as just an activity to convince other people, young children do generate proofs, though not necessarily at the rigour commonly found in the mathematics literature. In the project “Teaching for Mathematising”, Proving in its broader sense, does have a position. In this talk, how Teaching for Mathematising handles deductive reasoning will be discussed through examples.

All Interested Are Welcome!

Limited language assistance will be provided for participants not very convenient with English.

Organized by Hong Kong Association for Mathematics Education