Fulvia Furinghetti is a retired professor of mathematics education at the University of Genoa (Italy). Her research concerns mathematics education (computer science in mathematics teaching, proof, beliefs, teacher education, history in mathematics teaching, and public image of mathematics) and the history of mathematics education. She was one of the organizers of the celebrations of the Centenary of the journal L'Enseignement Mathématique in 2000 and the Centenary of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) in 2008. In both cases, she was one of the editors of the proceedings. With Livia Giacardi, she has developed a website on the history of the first hundred years of ICMI. In 2001-2004 she chaired the International Study Group on History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM) affiliated to ICMI.

Livia Giacardi is a full professor of History of Mathematics at the University of Turin. Her research focuses on the history of mathematics - in particular on the history of geometry in Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries - and on the history of mathematics education. She has been the Secretary of the Italian Society for the History of Mathematics (2000-2008), and a member of the Council (2000-2017); a member of the Italian Commission for Mathematics Teaching (2003-2012); and a member of the IPC of the Symposium on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of ICMI (2008) and was one of the editors of the proceedings. With Fulvia Furinghetti, she has developed a website on the history of the first hundred years of ICMI.

Fulvia Furinghetti . Livia Giacardi

Editors

The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908-2008: people, events, and challenges in mathematics education

Preface ..................

Fulvia Furinghetti and Livia Giacardi

Abbreviations and Acronyms ..................

Contents

Part I ICMI 1908-2008

1 The History of ICMI: the First Phase as IMUK and CIEM ..................

Gert Schubring

2 ICMI in the 1950s and 1960s: Reconstruction, Settlement, and "Revisiting Mathematics Education" ..................

Fulvia Furinghetti and Livia Giacardi

3 The New Life of ICMI: Pursuing Autonomy and Identifying New Areas of Action ...............

Marta Menghini

4 The Voice of the Protagonists. A Selection of Unpublished Letters ..

Part II Events and Data

5 Timeline of ICMI 1908-2008 ..................

Fulvia Furinghetti and Livia Giacardi

6 Central and Executive Committees of CIEM/IMUK and ICMI ....

Fulvia Furinghetti

7 The Terms of Reference for ICMI (1954-2007) ..................

Livia Giacardi

8 Mathematics Education in the International Congresses of Mathematicians 1897-2006 ....

Fulvia Furinghetti

9 Maps on the Process of Internationalization of ICMI ..................

10 The Beginning of an Adventure. Glances at the First ICME (Lyon 1969)

Fulvia Furinghetti

Part III The Biographical Portraits of the Central/Executive Committee Members and Other Eminent Figures

Central/Executive Committee Members ..................

Eminent figures ..................

About the Authors ..................

Name Index ..................