ZDM, August 2009

Summer is over, and I am back at work (and blogging)! I am not going to try and catch up with everything that has been published and done during my vacation, but rather start with what is new now.

One of the major journals - ZDM - has recently released a new issue: Volume 41, Number 4. This issue contains 11 articles, in addition to the introduction by Stephen J. Hegedus and Luis Moreno-Armella.

• Intersecting representation and communication infrastructures, by Stephen J. Hegedus and Luis Moreno-Armella
• Sounds and pictures: dynamism and dualism in Dynamic Geometry, by Nicholas Jackiw and Nathalie Sinclair
• Artifacts and signs after a Vygotskian perspective: the role of the teacher, by Maria Alessandra Mariotti
• Time for telling stories: narrative thinking with dynamic geometry, by Nathalie Sinclair, Lulu Healy and Cassia Osorio Reis Sales
• Potential scenarios for Internet use in the mathematics classroom, by Marcelo C. Borba
• “No! He starts walking backwards!”: interpreting motion graphs and the question of space, place and distance, by Luis Radford
• Dynamic mathematics and the blending of knowledge structures in the calculus, by David O. Tall
• Broadening the sense of ‘dynamic’: a microworld to support students’ mathematical generalisation, by Richard Noss, Celia Hoyles, Manolis Mavrikis, Eirini Geraniou, Sergio Gutierrez-Santos and Darren Pearce
• Co-action with digital technologies, by Luis Moreno-Armella and Stephen J. Hegedus
• Book review: Menghini, M., Furinghetti, F., Giacardi, L. and Azarello, F. (eds.): The first century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (1908–2008): reflecting and shaping the world of mathematics education, by Michael N. Fried
• ICMI Study 20: educational interfaces between mathematics and industry, by Alain Damlamian and Rudolf Sträßer