Cet ouvrage est le produit final de la 22eme étude ICMI, consacrée à ce que la tradition française appelle l'ingénierie didactique. Il constitue une synthèse des travaux produits au cours de cette étude. On en trouvera ci-dessous la présentation, puis un retour sur l'étude elle-même, incluant un point de vue des participants venus d'institutions françaises.

Présentation de l'ouvrage

This book is the product of ICMI Study 22 Task Design in Mathematics Education. The study offers a state-of the-art summary of relevant research and goes beyond that to develop new insights and new areas of knowledge and study about task design. The authors represent a wide range of countries and cultures and are leading researchers, teachers and designers. In particular, the authors develop explicit understandings of the opportunities and difficulties involved in designing and implementing tasks and
of the interfaces between the teaching, researching and designing roles – recognising that these might be undertaken by the same person or by completely separate teams.

Tasks generate the activity through which learners meet mathematical concepts,
ideas, strategies and learn to use and develop mathematical thinking and modes of enquiry. Teaching includes the selection, modification, design, sequencing, installation, observation and evaluation of tasks. The book illustrates how task design is core to effective teaching, whether the task is a complex, extended, investigation or a small part of a lesson; whether it is part of a curriculum system, such as a textbook, or promotes free standing activity; whether the task comes from published source or is devised by the teacher or the student.