AMU COMMISION ON MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN AFRICA (AMU-CMEA)
Members of the AMU-CMEA
Objectives of AMU-CMEA
- Contribute to the development of the Mathematics curriculum at all levels of Mathematics education troughout the African continent;
- Contribute to the production and improvement of Mathematics teachers in all education system in the African continent;
- Contribute to the research in the areas of Mathematics education that is relevant to African environment in the sence of improving the teaching and learning of Mathematics in African continent;
- Promote active coorperation between African Mathematicians and Mathematics education in writing textbooks and developing curricula for Mathematics;
- Cooperate with any or all organisation pursuns the same objectives for example, ICMI, CMEA, UNESCO;
- Help Young Africans improve their performance in Mathematics at national, religional and continental.
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW ON AMU-CMEA
- One of the relevant actives of last AMU-CMEA is the criation of Pan-African Mathematics Spaces (PMS)
- The first Pan-African Mathematical Space held in Tunis, November 2006, on the initiative of the AMU-CMEA and the Tunisian Association of Mathematical Sciences, with them: “Innovation in Mathematical Education” and the following aims:
- • promoting refections and exchanges on mathematics education within the African mathematical community,
- • Strenghtening existing collaborations, creating new ones, and bridging the gap between generations of teachers and trainers
- The second PAMS conference took place in Hammamet in November 2008 with relevant issues:
- • The LMD (Licence, Master, Doctorate) reform,
- • The use of new technologies, information technology and communication
- • The teaching training
- • Distance learning and virtual University
- • The concurrent renovation of the primary, secondary and higher cycles,
- • Astronomy
- • The resolution of real problems
- • The analysis of various evaluations
- • The contribution from the scientific movement to the development of scientific culture
- After 2008 there were no PAMS symposia, but the commission has developed information and communication actions in the framework of exchanges aimed at promoting education, research and culture scientific, including popularization in Mathematics for all.
AMUCEMA ACTIVITIES AGENDA DURING 2023-2026
| Activity | Contry | Responsible | Proposide period | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Form an online questionnaire to identify the reasons why students in Africa don’t like to study mathematics | All countries | Chair: Kgomotso Gertude Garegae All members of the Commission |
April-June 2023 |
| 2 | Organize Workshop of teachers training with the theme "Innovations in teaching mathematics" | Algeria | Chair: Karima Sayah | March or June 2024 |
| Botswana | Chair: Kgomotso Gertude Garegae | July 2024 | ||
| 3 | Organize junior summer schools and competition between student in high secondary school and university’s students | Algeria | Chair: Karima Sayah | August 2023 |
| Tunisia | Chair: Béchir Kachoukh | November 2025 | ||
| 4 | Organize two workshops with the "mathematics for industry" and "mathematics for biology" | Sudan | Chair: Entisar Alasheed Sidahmed | June 2025 |
| Kenya | Chair: Bernard Mutuku Nzimbi | August 2024 | ||
| 5 | Organize the 4th PAMES | Sudan | Chair: Entisar Alasheed Sidahmed All members of the Commission |
1st week of December 2023 |
| 6 | Organize the 5th PAMES | Rwanda | Chair: Aphonse Uworwabayeho All members of the Commission |
1st week of December 2024 |
| 7 | Organize the 6th PAMES | Niger | Chair: Arjika Sama All members of the Commission |
1st week of December 2025 |
| 8 | Introduce the competition Bebras in Africa | All countries | Chair: Karima Sayah All members of the Commission |
November-December 2023 |
