EARCOME 3

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The Third East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education

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	*Shanghai*
	*Nanjing*
	*Hangzhou*

	Hosted By: East China Normal University, Shanghai Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Hangzhou Teachers College, Hangzhou
	Future conference: *EARCOME4* Penang, Malaysia in the year 2007

· Programme（会议程序） ·

Symposium 1: Creativity

Schedule

Session I : 13:30 p.m.-15:30p.m, Aug 8. “Practicing Creativity”

Time	Chairs	Presenter (s)	Title
13:30 – 14:40	Introduction
	Hartwig Meissner(Germany) Linda J. Sheffield(USA) Tomoko Yana-gimoto (Japan)	Tomoko Yana-gimoto (Japan)	Creativity in elementary schools, a research experiment
		Kim Soo-Hwan(Korea)	A Case Study for Developing Mathe- matical Creativity in CNUE of Korea
		Elba Cristina Sequera Guerra， Joaquim Giménez & Jordi Servat (Venezuela/Spain)	Creativity and on/off-line Pre-service Primary Mathematics Teacher Training
		Yixun Shi (USA)	Use of Case Studies and Student Projects in Mathematics Education
		Teoh Poh Yew(Malaysia)	Amazing Mathematical Card Tricks: A Fun Way To Develop Mathematical Thinking, Problem Solving Skills And Creativity
14:40 – 15:30		Zhang Dan(China)	Remark on Innovative Factors in Primary School Mathematics “Double Basics" Teaching from Class Cases
		Claudia Lack(Germany)	How do children at the age of 6 to 8 years, who are especially interested in mathematics, solve tasks?
		Linda J. Sheffield(USA)	Techniques to Further Mathematical Creativity
		Hartwig Meissner(Germany)	Challenges to Provoke Creativity

Informal Meeting on Creativity, Aug. 9

Time	Informal Meeting on Creativity in Room MR431 Bring your lunch box with you
12:30 – 13:30	Everybody is invited to show up: You may meet old friends or make new friends. Informally we can exchange experiences, get new inputs, further mutual contacts, initiate new cooperations, ... We also may discuss future activities of a creativity group.

Session ll: 16:00 p.m.-17:30p.m, Aug 9. " Round Table Discussion "

Time	Chair	Panelists:	Round Table Discussion
16:00 – 17:30	Mark Saul (USA)	Hartwig Meissner (Germany) Linda J. Sheffield (USA) Tomoko Yana- gimoto (Japan)	Round table to synthesize results from Session I, followed by an open discussion focusing on 　 "Students' Creative Abilities in Mathematics Teaching and Learning -- the Views from West and East" Short statements from the panelists: * Definition, identification and characteristics of mathematical creativity * Mathematical creativity and mathematical giftedness * Exemplary teaching practices to encourage creativity * Mathematics programs, curriculum and/or problems that encourage creativity * Mathematical creativity across cultures. An open discussion with the audience will follow.

Call for contributions

We would like to invite mathematics educators from all around the world to submit a paper for this Symposium. Papers might address one or more of the following sub themes:

Definition, identification and characteristics of mathematical creativity.
Mathematical creativity and cognition.
Mathematical creativity and mathematical giftedness
Exemplary teaching practices to encourage creativity
Students practice mathematical creativity
Mathematics programs, curriculum and/or problems that encourage creativity
Mathematical assessment and its effects on creativity
Mathematical creativity across cultures.

Session I (2 hours)

In the first session we will have paper presentations. The chairs and their colleagues from East and West will review the papers submitted for which the authors have indicated how the paper is related to creativity. From these papers they will form a program. If there are too many applications for participation in the symposium, there may be strands on sub themes in different rooms (i.e. for elementary / secondary / tertiary education). Papers on mathematical creativity may also be submitted to Topic Study Groups on Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Teacher Education or Assessment.

Session II (1.5 hours)

In this session there will be a roundtable to synthesize results from Session I followed by an open discussion focusing on "Students' Creative Abilities in Mathematics Teaching and Learning -- the Views from West and East".

How to submit a proposal

There is a separate website to study all details for proposal submission (see call for paper)

All proposals will be reviewed. The accepted papers then will be published in the conference proceedings CD version. Papers must be submitted through email attachment directly to all the chairs of the Symposium:

Hartwig Meissner (Germany) <meissne@uni-muenster.de>

Linda Sheffield (USA) <sheffield@nku.edu>

Tomoko Yanagimoto (Japan) <ytomoko@cc.osaka-kyoiku.ac.jp>

Wang Shangzhi (China) <zhyk@vip.sina.com>

To avoid confusion or loss of proposals, please label your electronic attached files as:

EARCOME3_<your surname_your given name>_Sym1.doc

Deadline of paper submission:          March 10, 2005