First Project-Meeting „Developing Quality in Mathematics Education II DQME II“ in Bratislava Thanks for these nice welcoming words! I am very happy to meet you all again here in Bratislava. It is good to see that so many people are interested in the work of our old project and want to join the continuation of the already done work, but also start something new. A european Network for Developing Quality in Mathematics Education. Unfortunately working in a EU project does not only mean working on the content, but, as you all already noticed, also some administrational things. I want to clarify those now, at the beginning of this meeting, and then start working on the content 15.11.2007 – 18.11.2007 Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Summary of Application - Workpackages Developing and modifying learning material and teaching methods Testing learning materials and teaching methods Teacher Training Workshops and Materials (pre- and in-service) Cooperation with national projects Developing quality criteria for use in the project The first part, until lunch, will concern the project agreement. After lunch I want to explain how the Communication Platform works and after that giving you a really short summary of the application and explain with this the programme structure of our meeting. Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Summary of Application - Workpackages Dissemination (Lectures on Conferences, articles in journals, Homepage etc.) Organisation of the yearly conferences Yearly Publications First of all I want to explain the role of Wolfgang, Celine and me between the project, the administration and the EU. We are also more interested in working on the content of the project and want to support every partner in this work! All administrational rules coming up during the project are not made by me, Wolfgang or Celine, but by the EU or the University of Dortmund. E.g. if I ask you for a contract for translations or estimations of costs for a laptop… Please keep that in mind! Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Summary of Application - Workpackages Yearly Project Meetings Exchange of Teachers and Researchers Implementation of the Communication Platform Translation of the Results Monitoring of progress and budget Contact with Brussels Exploitation of Results The easiest thing to clarify most of the administrational things is on the basis of the Project Agreement. Not everyone has a copy in the folder but most of you, because only one Agreement per institution is necessary… This Agreement is a modified version of the old agreement. I will tell you what is modified… Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Teacher Training Group Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

SMP 1966-1979 UK MISP (Mathematics In Society) 1980- MUED (In German and in Germany) 1977- Mathematics Education Into the 21st Century Project 1986- SuperCourse/Superkurs 2001 - DQME I (Developing Quality in Mathematics Education) 2004-2007 DQME II (Developing Quality in Mathematics Education) 2007-20010 Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Cooperation between Science and Mathematics Teachers 1978-1980 UNESCO – ICSU – CTS - ICMI Modern Mathematics in the Science Lesson - SMP/CUP 1977 Seminal Ideas of Polya, Kuhn, Lakatos, Freire, in the humanisation of mathematics, the history of mathematis and mathematics education Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

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Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Communication Platform Working Structure for the Network Coordinator Coordinating all workgroups named on the last sheet of the PPP Being informed about all important news from the other workgroups Head of Group Coordinating the work in the workgroup (timetable, tasks etc.) Being contact person for everyone who is interested in the work of that workgroup Informing the coordinator Group Member Informing the Head of the group about everything necessary Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Summary of Application - Workpackages Developing and modifying learning material and teaching methods Testing learning materials and teaching methods Teacher Training Workshops and Materials (pre- and in-service) Cooperation with national projects Developing quality criteria for use in the project Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Summary of Application - Workpackages Dissemination (Lectures on Conferences, articles in journals, Homepage etc.) Organisation of the yearly conferences Yearly Publications Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Summary of Application - Workpackages Quality and evaluation plan Evaluation of the Teacher Training Workshops and learning materials External Evaluator for the Meetings Download frequencies including questionnaires for feedback Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education

Summary of Application - Workpackages Yearly Project Meetings Exchange of Teachers and Researchers Implementation of the Communication Platform Translation of the Results Monitoring of progress and budget Contact with Brussels Exploitation of Results Developing Quality in Mathematics Education DQIME www.dqime.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education