Seminar on New Perspectives in Teaching Mathematics

I will participate in a Seminar on New Perspectives in Teaching Mathematics at Helsinki University of Technology, Oct 26, described as

• Teaching mathematics is always a challenging task. Recent advances in didactics and technology offer new opportunities in advanced mathematics teaching. A number of national and international experts share their views in a seminar organised by the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, TKK. The purpose of the seminar is to discuss the implementation of new teaching methods at technical universities.
  

The debate about mathematics education reform is picking up...in Finland...if not in Sweden...but stay tuned...

The title of my talk, with an outline here, is:

• Mathematics Teaching of the IT-Society: What, Why and How?

The following Knol articles and blog posts give an introduction and background to the talk:

• Traditional Role of Mathematics Education in Society??
• Why/What Mathematics for Engineers
• Modern Mathematics Education
• Why Teach Mathematics?
• Simulation Technology
• The Body&Soul Project   home page
• How to Not Organize a University
  
• Swedish Mathematics Flu
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics Education
• The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics
• Wigner Without Computer Unreasonable
• Mathematics and IT
• Mathematics Integrated with IT in School Education?
• Computer Games: Learning with Feed-Back
• The Ideology of Mathematics
• A Critical Analysis of the Ideology of Mathematics
• Mathematics and Religion vs Self-Help
• Analysis of Presentation of Mathematics Courses at HUT. 

Further material on education can be found on my blog under mathematics education.

For more material on various themes, see My Book of Knols.