Different Learners – Different Math?
Programme (preliminary) :
| Wednesday, November 7 | |
| 10.00 – | Registration |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 – 13.30 | Welcome and opening of the Conference |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Key Note Speaker:
Professor Johannes van Luit, University of Utrecht: "The development of numeracy in children with special mathematical needs." (Early Intervention) Discussant: Minna Hannula, "The everyday roots of early mathematical development: The role of spontaneous focusing on numerosity" |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Paper session A |
| 17.15 – 18.00 | The Finnish “Mathland” |
| 19.30 - | The City of Vaasa's reception at the Governors House, Koulukatu 2. |
Thursday, November 8 |
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| 9.00 – 10.30 | Key Note speaker: Professor Alan Bishop, Monash University, Australia: "Critical challenges in researching multicultural/multilingual issues in mathematics education." (Multilingual/Multicultural Math) Discussant: Pirjo Aunio, "Multicultural mathematics from Finnish point of view" |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Paper Session B |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | Key Note Speaker: Professor Tine Wedege, Malmö University: "People's mathematics in working life: why is it invisible? " (Secondary, Vocational and Life-Long Learning) Discussant: Sissi Huhtala, "Adult student´s own mathematics" |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00 – 17.30 | Paper session C/Symposium 1 |
| 19.30 - | Conference dinner |
Friday, November 9 |
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| 08.30 – 10.00 | Key Note Speaker: University Research Lecturer Ann Dowker,University of Oxford: "What can intervention tell us about typical and atypical development of arithmetic?" (Different Math) Discussant: Arne Engström, "Rethinking Mathematics Disabilities" |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Coffee break |
| 10.30 – 12.00 | Paper session D |
| 12.00 | Closing of the Conference |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
Welcome to the 4th Nordic Research Conference on Special Needs Education in Mathematics
Wednesday 7 – Friday 9 November 2007
Vaasa, Finland.