http://www.apmep.asso.fr

Created in 1910, constituted with volunteers, APMEP:

• is totally independent, financially, politically and regarding trade-unions;
• represents mathematics teachers from nursery school up to university.

APMEP is a space for...

• free speech and confrontation of ideas;
• cooperative self-training actions;
• political propositions regarding mathematics teaching.

APMEP cares about...

• curricula and their evaluation (EVAPM);
• students' required competences;
• teaching and teacher training;
• timetable, total number of students, etc.
• harmonisation between different cycles of the educational system;
• mathematics as a means of self development rather than selection;
• integration of new technologies;
• information and training of mathematics teachers;
• making evolutions easier by enhancing team work (mathematical laboratory, club, etc.).

For APMEP, doing mathematics means

Formulating a problem, modelling, experimenting, taking examples, making conjectures, gathering information, building a proof, using adequate tools, evaluating the consistency and pertinence of the results, communicating;

Simultaneously developing:

• a taste for mathematics, the pleasure of it;
• individual but also collaborative work of the students;
• a sense for listening and discussing;
• perseverance;
• imagination, critical sense, coherence and rigor.

APMEP publishes, nourishes and disseminates

• 3 bulletins: Bulletin Vert, PLOT and BGV;
• over 150 brochures;
• a website: http://www.apmep.asso.fr;
• a bibliographical database: http://publimath.irem.univ-mrs.fr/ or : http://publimath.univ-lyon.fr;
• an observatory for evaluation: EVAPM.

Contact

APMEP, 26 rue Duméril, 75013 PARIS - France
TEL : +33(0)1 43 31 34 05 - Fax : +33(0)1 42 17 08 77
apmep@apmep.asso.fr

Links

• Publimath : http://publimath.irem.univ-mrs.fr/ and http://publimath.univ-lyon.fr
• L'Observatoire EVAPM
• Les études EVAPM en 2005
• EVAPMIB