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Institute for Mathematical Pedagogy (IMP)

 A maximum of 25 people (teachers, advisers, academics, and us) meet and work on mathematical tasks
mostly chosen by Jenni Back, Corinne Angier and Chris Sangwin. The point is not to do the tasks, but rather to notice what is involved in working on the tasks, making sense, making progress, getting stuck, working with others, and the pedagogical implications of what we notice in ourselves.
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There are no 'conference papers' though sometimes people are moved to write about their experiences (see MT 191; 194; 232) and often there is an opportunity to offer a task connected with the theme.


IMP has been discontinued due to changing conditions


Previous IMP's
2024 Truth and Conviction
2023 Engineering the Unexpected
2022 Making Mathematics
2021 Mathematical Notation & Symbols
2020 Didactic Sequences for Mathematical Thinking Notes
2019 The Role & Use of Mental Imagery in Mathematical Thinking: Documents Part A; Documents Part B
2018: Meaning and Meaningfulness in Mathematics:   Documents
2017: Transitions Between Mathematical Worlds:
2016: Essence and Economy in Teaching & Learning Mathematics; Perks & Prestage on Isosceles Triangles
2015: Representing and Discerning Structural          Relationships; extra resources: Tandy
2014: Symmetry, Complementarity & Conjugacy
2013: Exchange & Substitution; 
2012: Fundamental Ideas, Core Awarenesses and    Threshold Concepts in Mathematics
2011: Tinkering with Tasks
2010: Mathematical Friends & Relations: Recognising Structural Relationships
2009: Explanation & Proof as Mathematical Narrative
2008: Mathematical Notation
2007: Metaphors, Models & (re)Presentations
2006: Surprise & Expectation: 
2005: Mathematical Structure
2004: Freedom & Constraint
2003: Imagining & Expressing Mathematical Ideas
2002: Disturbance, Variation & Construction
2001: 


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