The 9th International
MATHEMATICAL CREATIVITY AND GIFTEDNESS Conference Program (www.mcg-9.net)
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
| 9:00 – 17:00 | Arrival and registration of participants |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | IC MCG meeting |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Opening ceremony |
| Reception cocktail |
Friday, June 26th, 2015
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Plenary Lecture – Bharath Sriraman Mathematical Pathologies as Pathways into Creativity |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 – 11:30 |
Plenary Lecture – Gabriele Kaiser Professional competences of teachers and its relation to creativity |
| 12:00 – 13:00 |
Workshop 1 Workshop 1.1. Room A Workshop 1.2. Room B Workshop 1.3. Room C |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Oral Presentations1 OP1.1 Room A OP1.2 Room B OP1.3 Room C |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 |
Oral Presentations 2 OP2.1 Room A OP2.2 Room B OP2.3 Room C |
| 18:30 – 19:00 | Meeting plenary speakers |
| 19:30 – | Dinner |
Saturday, June 27th, 2015
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Plenary Lecture – Viktor Freiman Mathematical giftedness goes online: what are the new ways, tools, resources to develop talents and creativity in students? |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 – 11:30 |
Plenary Lecture – Rina Zazkis Virtual conversations on mathematical tasks |
| 11:45 – 13:00 |
Symposia Symposium 1 Room A Symposium 2 Room B |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 – 17:00 |
Oral Presentations 3 OP3.1 Room A OP3.2 Room B OP3.3 Room C |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee break |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Meeting plenary speakers |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | MCG meeting |
| 19:30 – | Festive Dinner |
Sunday, June 28th, 2015
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Research panel – Roza Leikin, Demetra Pitta-Pantazi, Florence Mihaela Singer, Linda Sheffield Connection between theory and practice in gifted education |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 – 11:30 |
Workshop 2 Workshop 2.1. Room A Workshop 2.2. Room B |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Lunch (+ IC Meeting) |
| 13:00 – 16:00 | Excursion – Visit to the Peles Castle |
| 16:00 – | Departure |
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
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ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1 Friday, June 26, 2015 15:00 – 16:30 |
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1.1. Creativity in elementary education Room A Chairman: Marianne Nolte |
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| Nr. | Authors | Paper title |
| 1 |
Anna Prusak
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Nurturing student's creativity through telling mathematical stories |
| 2 |
Maria Kattou Constantinos Christou Demetra Pitta-Pantazi |
Solving a mathematical creativity task |
| 3 |
Mark Applebaum |
The perception of the concept of a "challenging task" by mathematically promising elementary school students |
| 4 |
Aleksandra Mihajlovic Mirko Dejic |
Using open-ended problems and problem posing activities in elementary mathematics classroom |
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1.2. Creativity in Mathematics Competitions Room B Chairman: Roza Leikin |
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| Nr. | Authors | Paper title |
| 1 |
Ingrida Veilande Sandra Krauze |
The analysis of 6th grade students’ works at the open Mathematical Olympiad |
| 2 | Ariana-Stanca Văcărețu | Learning math through research and cooperation |
| 3 | Dace Kuma | Novelties in Math Olympiads in Latvia |
| 4 | Gregory Makrides | Le-MATH: learning mathematics through new communication factors |
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1.3. Problem solving and problem posing situations Room C Chairman: Ewa Swoboda |
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| Nr. | Authors | Paper title |
| 1 | Boris Koichu | Problem solving and choice-based pedagogies |
| 2 |
Mihaela Singer Ildikó Pelczer Cristian Voica |
Problem posing cognitive style - can it be used to assess mathematical creativity? |
| 3 |
Bronislaw Czarnocha William Baker |
Creativity and bisociation |
| 4 |
Gönül Yazgan-Sağ Ziya Argün |
Self-control and self-monitoring processes of gifted students in mathematical problem solving situations |
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ORAL PRESENTATIONS 2
Friday, June 26, 2015 17:00 – 18:30 |
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2.1. Creativity in early years Room A Chairman: Alex Friedlander |
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| Nr. | Authors | Paper title |
| 1 | Melanie Beck | Combinational play between mathematical domains as one dimension of mathematical creativity in the early years |
| 2 |
Jana Slezakova Ewa Swoboda |
Looking for the way to support children's mathematical creativity |
| 3 |
Panayiota Irakleous Demetra Pitta-Pantazi |
Identifying mathematically gifted preschoolers |
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2.2. Expertise vs. mathematical giftedness Room B Chairman: Boris Koichu |
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| Nr. | Authors | Paper title |
| 1 | LindaJensen Sheffield | Myths about "gifted" mathematics students: how widespread are they? |
| 2 | Torsten Fritzlar | Mathematical giftedness as developing expertise |
| 3 |
Zekeriya Karadag Yasemin Devecioglu-Kaymakci |
Bayburt's Got Gifted |
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2.3. Developing creativity through challenging activities Room C Chairman: Jong Sool Choi |
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| Nr. | Authors | Paper title |
| 1 |
Naomi Prusak Rina Hershkowitz |
Creativity developed within an activity that affords multiple solution and multimodal argumentation |
| 2 | Ralf Benoelken | “Mathe für Kleine Asse” – An enrichment project at the university of Münster |
| 3 |
Sorin Alexe Gabriela Alexe Consuela Luiza Voica Cristian Voica |
XColony educational activities enhance spatial reasoning in middle school students |
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ORAL PRESENTATIONS 3
Saturday, June 27, 2015 15:00 – 17:00 |
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3.1. Mathematical giftedness, talent and promise Room A Chairman: Torsten Fritzlar |
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| Nr. | Authors | Paper title |
| 1 |
Daniela Assmus Frank Förster |
Analogical-reasoning abilities of mathematically gifted children - first results of the video study ViStAD |
| 2 |
Paraskevi Sophocleous Demetra Pitta-Pantazi |
Higher order thinking in mathematics |
| 3 | Michael Kainose Mhlolo | Examining covert impediments to inclusive education for the mathematically gifted learners in South Africa |
| 4 | Nicolae Popa | “The week of mathematics” – a project with creative approaches |
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3.2. Challenges in the teaching practice Room B Chairman: LindaJensen Sheffield |
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| Nr. | Authors | Paper title |
| 1 | Jong Sool Choi | A method of teaching Mathematics in Korea Science Academy |
| 2 |
Elcin Emre Akdogan Gönül Yazgan-Sağ |
Prospective teachers' views of creativity in school mathematics |
| 3 | Sinan Kanbir | Ability grouping for mathematically promising students |
| 4 | Edel Reilly | Supermath: a creative way to use gifted math students’ talents |
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3.3. Teaching discourse in creative learning environments Room C Chairman: Ralf Benoelken |
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| Nr. | Authors | Paper title |
| 1 |
Rina Hershkowitz Michal Tabach Shirly Azmon Chris Rasmussen Tommy Dreyfus |
Do teacher's ways of enhancing discourse in her class leave traces on her students' post-test responses? |
| 2 |
Michal Tabach Alex Friedlander |
Algebraic symbols and creative thinking |
| 3 | Emilia Angelova Velikova | A study on the relation between creative school environment and creative students’ personality, process and product |
| 4 |
Zekeriya Karadag Dragana Martinovic Seyda Birni |
Mathematical creativity and the affordances of dynamic and interactive mathematics learning environments |
WORKSHOPS
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WORKSHOPS1 Friday, June 26, 2015 12:00 – 13:00 |
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| WS | Room | Authors | Workshop title |
| 1.1. | A | Linda Jensen Sheffield | Rational Creativity: Algorithms or Innovation? Teaching Operations with Fractions |
| 1.2. | B |
Florence Mihaela Singer Cristian Voica
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Effective feedback for efficient learning: A computer-based system of assessment |
| 1.3. | C |
Consuela Luiza Voica Aurelia Grigorescu
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Visualizing geometric concepts using a novel type of 3D puzzles |
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WORKSHOPS2
Sunday, June 28, 2015 10:30 – 11:30 |
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| WS | Room | Authors | Workshop title |
| 2.1. | A | William Renwick Speer | Activities that Engage Gifted and Talented Students in Productive Struggles with Desirable Difficulties: A Model Encouraging Intense Discourse and Deep Reasoning |
| 2.2. | B | Sinan Kanbir | Use of algebraic reasoning for early identification of mathematical talent |
SYMPOSIA
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Saturday, June 27, 2015 11:45 – 13:00 |
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| SYM | Room | Authors | Symposium title |
| 1 | A |
Bronislaw Czarnocha William Baker |
The nature of creativity |
| 2 | B | Marianne Nolte | Fostering Mathematical Giftedness in regular classroom setting and in special programs |