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THURSDAY, May 21 

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08.00 – 09.00

Welcome coffee and snack.  MACAS and CRYSTAL Registration

09.00 – 09.30

MACAS3 Opening

09.30 – 10.45

Plenary lecture A

 

TINNE HOFF KJELDSEN, Roskilde University, Denmark :

History in mathematics education – why bother?

Interdisciplinarity, mathematical competence and the learning of mathematics

10.45 – 11.00

Coffee break

11.00 – 12.30

Paper session 1a, Math & Arts

 

Lise Robichaud :

Visual Arts and Mathematics: An Impressionist tale

 

Ildikó Pelczer :

Using origami as context builder to teach pre-math skills

11.00 – 12.30

Paper session 1b, Interdisciplinarity & understanding

 

Elena Polotskaia :

Pourquoi un nombre negative multiplié par un autre negative donne un résultat positif? Un profit de l’interdisciplinarité

 

Alan Rogerson :

A Brief History and Exploration of some didactic journeys to connect the great Continents of Knowledge

12.30 – 13.30

Lunch

13.30 – 14.30

Paper session 2a, Cross-curricular connections

 

Astrid Beckmann & Annika Grube :

Cross-Curricular Teaching between Mathematics and Biology – Nutrition circle, Similarity, Allometry

 

Simon Zell :

Mathematical literacy and how scientific experiments can promote that conception

13.30 – 14.30

Paper session 2a, Curriculum and mathematics

 

Ke Wu Norman, Tamara J. Moore & Anne L. Kern  :

Curriculum Design that Integrates Engineering into Mathematics and Science Coursework for K-12 Teachers

 

Marcia Cormier :

Bâtissons une ville géométrique ensemble: apprentissage par projet en mathématiques des élèves de 10e année

14.30 – 16.15

Cultural activity & light lunch :

Visit to the Acadian museum (light lunch will be served)

16.15 – 17.15

Paper session 3a, Interdisciplinarity

 

Larry Blaine :

Numbers Matter in Music

 

Edel M. Reilly :

Writing + Math + Assessment = Opportunity: Forging New Interdisciplinary Connections

16.15 – 17.15

Paper session 3b, Connections to Language Art

 

Samuel Blanchard, Université de Moncton, Canada :

The Net Generation: social media and its links to interdisciplinarity

 

Karen Sullenger (CRYSTAL Atlantique) :

The impact of an Informal Learning Program on Students’ Perceptions of Writing as Integral to Scientists’ Work.

17.15 – 17.30

Coffee break

17.30 – 18.45

Plenary lecture B

 

DAVE WAGNER, University of New Brunswick, Canada :

Intercultural Positioning in Mathematics