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ICME: The International Congress on Mathematical Education

A major event in the life of the international mathematics education community is formed by the quadrennial International Congress on Mathematical Education, ICME, held under the auspices of ICMI. The site of an ICME is decided upon by the ICMI EC. Moreover for each ICME the scientific program is planned by an International Program Committee, IPC, appointed by but in principle working independently of the ICMI EC. However, in order to ensure continuity and conformity with general ICMI principles, the ICMI EC normally has representatives on the IPC (the President and Secretary of ICMI being ex officio members of the IPC), one of whom is acting as a liaison officer with the Local Organizing Committee of the congress.
The practical and financial organization of the ICMEs are the independent responsibility of the Local (or National) Organizing Committee, again under the observation of general ICMI principles. In other words, while it is not ICMI as such which is organizing an ICME, neither in terms of the scientific nor of the practical aspects of the Congress, all ICMEs are held under ICMI auspices.
In addition to the rather formal Congress Proceedings, a wide variety of ICME-related publications on specific themes and topics normally appear as well, as a result of a given ICME.
The years and sites of the first ICMEs were
ICME-1, 1969, Lyon (France)
ICME-2, 1972, Exeter (UK)
ICME-3, 1976, Karlsruhe (Germany)
ICME-4, 1980, Berkeley (USA)
ICME-5, 1984, Adelaide (Australia)
ICME-6, 1988, Budapest (Hungary)
ICME-7, 1992, Québec (Canada)
ICME-8, 1996, Sevilla (Spain)
ICME-9, 2000, Tokyo/Makuhari (Japan)
ICME-10, 2004, Copenhagen (Denmark)
The Executive Committee of ICMI has announced in December 2003 its decision of accepting the invitation received from México to hold the 11th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-11) in Monterrey on July 6-13, 2008. The Chair of the International Programme Committee is Prof. Marcela Santillán (m.santillan@upn.mx), and the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee is Prof. Carlos Signoret (casi@xanum.uam.mx)