Working Groups at Each Annual Meeting

1977 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

• Teacher education programmes
•  Undergraduate mathematics programmes and prospective teachers
•  Research and mathematics education
•  Learning and teaching mathematics

1978 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

• Mathematics courses for prospective elementary teachers
•  Mathematization
•  Research in mathematics education

1979 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

• Ratio and proportion: a study of a mathematical concept
•  Minicalculators and the mathematics curriculum
•  Is there a mathematical method?
•  Topics suitable for mathematics courses for elementary teachers

1980 Université Laval, Québec, Québec

• The teaching of calculus and analysis
•  Applications of mathematics for high school students
•  Geometry in the elementary and junior high school curriculum
•  The diagnosis and remediation of common mathematical errors

1981 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

• Research and the classroom
•  Computer education for teachers
•  Issues in the teaching of calculus
•  Revitalising mathematics in teacher education courses

1982 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

• The influence of computer science on undergraduate mathematics education
•  Application of research in mathematics education to teacher training programmes
•  Imagery and mathematics
•  Problem solving in the curriculum

1983 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

• Developing statistical thinking
•  Training in diagnosis and remediation for teachers
•  Mathematics and language
•  The influence of computer science on the mathematics curriculum

1984 University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

• Logo and the mathematics curriculum
•  The impact of research and technology on school algebra
• Epistemology and mathematics
•  Visual thinking in mathematics

1985 Université Laval, Québec, Québec

• Lessons from research about students' errors
•  Logo activities for the high school
•  Impact of symbolic manipulation software on the teaching of calculus
•  The role of feelings in the teaching of mathematics

1986 Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland

• The role of feelings in learning mathematics
•  The problem of rigour in mathematics teaching
•  Microcomputers in teacher education
•  The role of microcomputers in developing statistical thinking

1987 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

• Methods courses for secondary teacher education
•  The problem of formal reasoning in undergraduate programmes
•  Small group work in the mathematics classroom

1988 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

• Teacher education: what it could be
•  Natural learning and mathematics
•  Using software for geometrical investigations
•  A study of the remedial teaching of mathematics

1989 Brock University, St. Catharine's, Ontario

• Using computers for investigative work with teachers
•  Computers in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum
•  Natural language and mathematical language
•  Research strategies for pupils' conceptions in mathematics

1990 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia

• Reading and writing in the mathematics classroom
•  The NCTM "Standards" and Canadian reality
•  Explanatory models of children's mathematics
•  Chaos and fractal geometry for high school students

1991 University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick

• Fractal geometry in the curriculum
•  Socio-cultural aspects of mathematics
•  Technology and understanding mathematics
•  Constructivism: Implications for teacher education in mathematics

1992 ICME-7, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec

 1993 York University, Toronto, Ontario

• Research in undergraduate teaching and learning of mathematics
• New ideas in assessment
• Computers in the classroom: mathematical and social implications
• Gender and mathematics
• Training pre-service teachers for creating mathematical communities in the classroom

1994 University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan

• Theories of mathematics education
• Preservice mathematics teachers as purposeful learners: issues of enculturation
• Popularizing mathematics

1995 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

• Anatomy and authority in the design and conduct of learning activity
• Expanding the conversation: trying to talk about what our theories don't talk about
• Factors affecting the transition from high school to university mathematics
• Geometric proofs and knowledge without axioms

1996 Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

• Teacher education: challenges, opportunities and innovations
• Formation a l'enseignement des mathematiques au secondaire: nouvelles perspectives et defis
• What is dynamic algebra?
• The role of proof in post-secondary education

1997 Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario

• Awareness and Expression of Generality in Teaching Mathematics
• Communicating Mathematics
• The crisis in School Mathematics Content

1998 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

• Assessing Mathematical Thinking
• From Theory to Observational Data (and Back Again)
• Bring Ethnomathematics into the Classroom in a Meaningful Way
• Mathematical Software for the Undergraduate Curriculum

1999 Brock University, St. Catherine's, Ontario

• Teaching Practices and Teacher Education
• Information Technology and Mathematics Education
• Early Childhood Mathematics
• Applied Mathematics at the Secondary Level

2000 Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec

• Des cours de mathématiques pour les futurs enseignants et enseignantes du primaire/Mathematics courses for prospective elementary teachers
• Crafting an algebraic mind: Intersections from history and the contemporary mathematics classroom
• Mathematics education et didactique des mathématiques : y a-t-il une raison pour vivre des vies séparées?/Mathematics education et didactique des mathématiques: Is there a reason for living separate lives?
• Teachers, technologies, and productive pedagogy

2001 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

• Considering how linear algebra is taught and learned
• Children's proving
• Inservice mathematics teacher education
• Where is the mathematics?

2002 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

• Mathematics and the arts
• Philosophy for children on mathematics
• The arithmetic/algebra interface: Implications for primary and secondary mathematics / Articulation arithmétique/algèbre : Implications pour l'enseignement des mathématiques au primaire et au secondaire
• Mathematics, the written and the drawn
• Des cours de mathémathiques pour les futurs (et actuels) maîtres au secondaire / Types and characteristics desired of courses in mathematics programs for future (and in-service) teachers

2003 Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

• The History of Mathematics as a pedagogic tool in Grades K-12
• Teacher Research: An Empowering Practice?
• Images of Undergraduate Mathematics