AMU COMMISION ON MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN AFRICA (AMU-CMEA)
Members of the AMU-CMEA
Chair: Prof. Mahmoud Abdel-Aty, Vice President of African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Zewal University (Egypt);
Co-Chair: Prof. Bangoura Momo, Director of Higher Education, University of Conakry (Guinea)
Secretary: Prof. Maria De Natividade, Head of Mathematics Department, Agostinho Neto University (Angola);
Other members:
Prof. Mellony Graven, Rhodes University, South Africa
Dr. Arjika Sama, University of Agadez (Niger),
Dr. Alphonse Uworwabaheyo, University of Rwanda-College of Education (Rwanda),
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.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ORGANIZED BY AMU-CMEA OR IN COLLABORATION WITH AMU
Activity
Contry
Responsible
Proposide period
1
7 th International Conference on Mathematics and Information Sciences
Egypt
Mahmoud Abdel-Aty
15-17, February 2018
2
3rd Pan African Mathematics spaces: Professional development of Mathematics teaching in Africa
Angola
Maria Natividade
April 2019
3
3th International Conference PME
Pretoria, South Africa
Joham Engebrechet
7-12 July 2019
4
3rd Pan African Mathematics spaces: Innovations in teaching and learning of mathematics and sciences for suitainable developemt goal
Rwanda
Alphonce Uwawabayeha
24-26 June 2020
7th International Conference on Mathematics and Information Sciences, Fabruary 15-17, 2018, Sohag University, Egypt.