Comments:GGB IMEC Tehran 2014

GGB IMEC Tehran 2014 GeoGebra Pre-IMEC Conference 2014 Introduction Our Pre-ATCM Conference offers a good opportunity for the GeoGebra Community to meet colleagues from all around the world. Also, we can involve many colleagues and teachers from Thailand and other Asian countries. Dates & Location Dates: Dec 16, 2012, 1 day before ATCM 2012 The 17th Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics Location: Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology, Bangkok, Thailand; phone: +66 8564 90712 and map Accommodation: If ATCM participant go to ATCM website and reserve accommodation. Structure and Agenda Sessions There will be 3 keynote presentations highlighting important issues in both software and community developments (20min+10min questions). We welcome submissions for short presentations about interesting applications of GeoGebra, research and local community activities, these presentations can be 15min + 5min. Posters can be also presented. Schedule: 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-9:40 Opening 9:40-10:10 Keynote Zaleha Ismail: Statistical Reasoning with GeoGebra 10:10-10:40 Keynote Lavicza Zsolt: GeoGebra Community and STEM Education 10:40-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Presentations I 12:30-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:00 Keynote Anthony C. M. Or: Catering for Learning Needs in Mathematics 14:00-15:30 Presentations II 15:30-15:50 Coffee Break 15:50-17:20 Discussions 17:20-17:30 Closure Presentations I 11:00-12:30 Rachaya Srisurichan Activity of Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology Talgat Bainazarov, Bolat Ospanov, Saulebek Mahashev Visualization of maximum and minimum areas of inscribed figures Siti Nurashiken Binti Md Sabudin and Mazlena Binti Murshed Activity of GeoGebra Institute of Johor Bahru, Malaysia Steen Grode A different mathematics teaching Presentations II 14:00-15:30 Maha Ahmed Ismail GeoGebra in Egypt Jamal Hussain Activity of GeoGebra Institute of Mizoram, India Shabnam Alavi Saadat Activity of GeoGebra Institute of Tehran, Iran Talgat Bainazarov, Bolat Ospanov, Saulebek Mahashev Activity of GeoGebra Institute of Astana, Kazakhstan Registration 35 USD (=1000000 Rials) which will cover room rent, coffee and lunch. Registration fee can be paid in USD or Rialson the conference day. Registration form Important note: If you are not able to reach the form from your country, please send your registration request via email to events@geogebra.org! Deadlines Nov 30, 2012: Registration Keynotes Zsolt Lavicza, University of Cambridge, UK: GeoGebra Community and STEM Education GeoGebra, a free, open-source, dynamic mathematics software, is rapidly gaining popularity in the teaching and learning of mathematics around the world. Currently, GeoGebra is translated to 62 languages, used in 190 countries, and downloaded by approximately 500,000 users in each month, and clearly making an impact on mathematics education in most countries. This increased use compelled the establishment of the International GeoGebra Institute (IGI) that serves as a virtual organization to support local GeoGebra initiatives and institutes. There are already 130 institutes in 85 countries, which pursue training and support of teachers, develop teaching materials, and carry out research projects. In this talk, I will outline the directions of GeoGebra software development, its extension to STEM subjects, activities of its community, and the work of GeoGebra Institutes. This presentation introduces the recent work of GeoGebra Institute of Tehran, Iran on teacher training, resources development and collaborative studies. I will present how we develop GeoGebra tasks to cater for the learning needs identified in our system assessments and collaborative studies through the fostering of visualization and reasoning in GeoGebra. The presentation will be illustrated by some resources in our depository on the topics quadrilaterals, multiplication and division of fractions, and the concept of slope.