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Presentations
The workshop took place in November 2007 at the National College for School Leadership in Nottingham.
Videos of the talks are availble either to play in your browser in flash format (click "play video") or, for higher quality, can be downloaded in mov format (warning: beware of the large file sizes).
Keynote Talks:
Alexandre Borovik (Manchester)
Mathematical thinking as experienced by a mathematician.
[play video]
[mov format, 222MB, right click to download]
Peter Bryant (Oxford Brookes)
The importance of relations in children's mathematical development.
[play video]
[mov format, 209MB, right click to download]
Marcus Giaquinto (UCL)
The importance of visual thinking in mathematics.
[play video]
[mov format, 240MB, right click to download]
Terezinha Nunes (Oxford)
Are fractions too difficult for primary school children?
[play video]
[mov format, 206MB, right click to download]
David Tall (Warwick)
How individuals develop mathematical thinking.
[play video]
[mov format, 230MB, right click to download]
Contributed Talks:
Patrick Barmby, Tony Harries & Steve Higgins (Durham)
Representational-reasoning model of understanding: Implications and applying it to multiplication.
[play video]
[mov format, 117MB, right click to download]
Darina Jirotkova (Charles Univ Prague) & Graham Littler (Derby)
The concept building process in 3D geometry.
[play video]
[mov format, 109MB, right click to download]
Sergiy Klymchuk (Auckland Univ of Technology)
Popularising mathematical thinking: A personal experience.
[play video]
[mov format, 118MB, right click to download]
Ladislav Kvasz (Charles Univ Prague / Comenius)
On the interplay of symbolic and iconic representations in mathematical thinking.
[play video]
[mov format, 113MB, right click to download]
Daniela Rudloff (Leicester)
Supporting arguments with statistical information.
[play video]
[mov format, 103MB, right click to download]
Zbigniew Semadeni (Warsaw)
Deep intuition as a level in the development of the concept image in D. Tall's three worlds of mathematics.
[play video]
[mov format, 92MB, right click to download]
Ruth Stavy, Dina Tirosh & Reuven Babai (Tel Aviv)
Brain activity during problem solving in geometry.
[play video]
[mov format, 121MB, right click to download]
Anne R. Teppo (Bozeman) & Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen (Utrecht / Humboldt)
Mathe-didactical analysis; a crucial component of task design.
[play video]
[mov format, 116MB, right click to download]
Anne Watson (Oxford)
Mathematical thinking in adolescence: Possible shifts of perspective.
[play video]
[mov format, 115MB, right click to download]
Oleksiy Yevdokimov (Southern Queensland)
On some characteristics of mathematical thinking in advanced problem solving.
[play video]
[mov format, 103MB, right click to download]
Contact
For further details please contact Camilla Gilmore or Matthew Inglis.
Postal address:
Mathematical Thinking Workshop
Learning Sciences Research Institute
Exchange Building
University of Nottingham
Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK.