CMM-Edu Director to participate in prestigious international conference in Boston

CMM-Edu Director to participate in prestigious international conference in Boston

Salomé Martínez, who leads the Education Laboratory of the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) at the University of Chile, will be a plenary speaker with her talk “Creating digital learning situations for the teaching of mathematics in elementary and secondary education”.

“Design for Equity and Social Justice: Creating New Futures” is the theme of this year’s 18th annual conference of the International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE), where prestigious academics, specialists and researchers will discuss how curricular models, evaluation, professional learning and appropriate educational policies can have an impact on breaking the systemic structure that maintains deep inequalities in the quality of education and limits the development and opportunities for children and young people.

This educational summit will be held between October 16 and 19 at the Wheelock School of Education and Human Development of Boston University, Massachusetts, and the person who will represent Chile is the director of the Education Laboratory of the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile, Salomé Martínez, whose presentation will focus, as she explains, “on the process of creating the activities of the Mathematics Connected (MATCON) project, which we are developing together with the Ministry of Education, which seeks, through contextual situations, to facilitate the teaching of mathematics connected with other disciplines, promoting a more integrated learning. Our goal is to contribute to a vision of mathematics connected with the lives of young people, highlighting its contribution to major social issues, such as climate change.

MATCON is a free access platform for teaching and learning mathematics from 7th grade to 4th grade. In order to favor the reactivation of mathematics learning, its resources involve motivating and diverse contexts, all connected to the real world.

The conference program of activities will include plenary speeches and contributed sessions, through research presentations and workshops. This methodology allows attendees to share their work and gain new experiences in their professional work. For Salomé Martínez, this “is essential to learn from people who, like us, are developing new approaches to teaching mathematics, and thus contribute to a vision of education in line with the times in which we live, where young people seek to contribute to the creation of a more just society and to take charge of problems that affect us all”.

In addition to CMM-Edu director, speakers will include academics Justin Reich, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Greg Benoit and Beth Warren, from Boston University; as well as researchers María C. Olivares and Eli Tucker-Raymond, from the Earl Center for Learning and Innovation.

Martínez has led a line of work focused on building mathematics learning spaces connected to real world problems and with the objective of promoting a mathematical activity that motivates young people and teachers. Thanks to the leadership of a first class multidisciplinary team, the Mathematics Education Laboratory at MWC has been a close collaborator of the Ministry of Education, promoting projects focused on professional development for teachers and the construction of learning resources.

Center for Mathematical Modeling

The CMM is today the most active scientific research institution in mathematical modeling in Latin America. It is a center of excellence of the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) of Chile, integrated by eight partner universities and located at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile. It is also the International Research Laboratory (IRL) #2807 of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Its mission is to create mathematics in response to problems in other sciences, industry and public policy. It seeks to develop science with the highest standards, excellence and rigor in areas such as data science, climate and biodiversity, education, resource management, mining and digital health.

By CMM Communications.

Posted on Oct 10, 2023 in News