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Keynote speakers    


      Tom Lindstrøm

Tom Lindstrøm is Professor of Mathematics and Head of Education at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo. He has been involved in mathematics education on the high school and university levels for many years, and he has written textbooks in calculus and mathematical analysis. His research interests are mainly in stochastic processes and nonstandard analysis.
Title and abstract:
Teaching mathematics to students who are not primarily interested in mathematics

Jana Madjarova

Jana Madjarova is professor of mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg. She is president of the Swedish Mathematical Competition for upper secondary school students, and programme director of the educational programme Engineering Physics at Chalmers University of Technology. She holds a PhD in partial differential equations. Her interests are mainly mathematics education and mathematical competitions.

Title and abstract:
Making the Right Choice
                        

     Mogens Niss

Mogens Niss is Professor of mathematics and mathematics education at the Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Denmark. His main field of research is mathematics education, where he has published around 150 papers in scholarly journals and books, as well as having written or edited thirten books. His research interests are focused on the justification problem in mathematics education, on applications and modelling in the teaching and learning of mathematics, on assessment, on the nature of mathematics education research as a scientific discipline, and on mathematical competencies in mathematics education.

Title and abstract:
Competency based curricula in mathematics


Special guest

Ann-Marie Pendrill

Ann-Marie Pendrill has a background in computational atomic physics. Since 2009 she is the director of the Swedish National Resource Centre for Physics Education, located at Lund university, where she is now professor in Science communication and physics education. She has used amusement park examples in her teaching for more than 20 years and arranged several large-scale math and physics days at Liseberg.
Read more at tivoli.fysik.org/english


Title and abstract:
Mathematics for carousels and roller coasters: Challenging project work for engineering students

The quiz, A mathematics walk through the Liseberg amusement park, and comments to the correct answers, you will find at  http://tivoli.fysik.org/english/liseberg/quiz
                       
Photographer Maja Kristin Nylander