Plenary activities
The plenary activities are those components of the scientific programme that address all congress participants at the same time. For ICME-10 there will be eight different plenary activities. These will include six plenary lectures, two of which will present the outcomes of the work of two of the Survey Teams (ST) (see below). There will be a panel debate on the theme ”Mathematics education for whom, and why? The balance between mathematics education ’for all’ and ’for high level mathematical activity’”. Finally, there will be an interview session during which four senior mathematics educators will be interviewed by an expert about their perceptions and views of the development of mathematics education during their professional lifetime. The plenary activities are numbered and listed below according to their order on the timetable.

P1:
Hyman Bass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA:
“Mathematicians, mathematics, and mathematics education“

P2:
Panel Interview moderated by Stephen Lerman, South Bank University, London, United Kingdom
Panel members:
Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin, USA
Susana Carreira, University of Algarve, Portugal
Yukihiko Namikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Renuka Vithal, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa

P3:
Anna Sfard University of Haifa, Israel:
“The relations between research and practice in mathematics education” report of the work of ST1:
Yoshihiko Hashimoto, Yokohama National University, Japan
Gelsa Knijknik, University of Vale do Rios dos Sinos, Porta Alegre, Brazil
Aline Robert, IUFM de Versailles, France
Ole Skovsmose, Aalborg University, Denmark

P4:
Erno Lehtinen, University of Turku, Finland:
“Mathematics education and learning sciences”

P5:
Interview session moderated by Michèle Artigue, University of Paris VII, France
Interviewees:
Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, São Paulo, Brazil
Gila Hanna, University of Toronto, Canada
Jeremy Kilpatrick, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Gérard Vergnaud, University of Paris VIII, Paris, France

P6:
Jill Adler University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa:
“The professional development of mathematics teachers”.
Report from the work of ST3:
Deborah Ball, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Konrad Krainer, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Lin, Fou-Lai, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, China - Taiwan
Jarmila Novotna, Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic

P7:
Andreas Dress, University of Bielefeld, Germany:
“Structure formation in nature as a topic of mathematics”

P8:
Ferdinando Arzarello, University of Torino, Italy: “Mathematical landscapes and their inhabitants: perceptions, languages, theories”

After the lectures by Hyman Bass, Anna Sfard, Jill Adler, Andreas Dress, and Ferdinando Azarello there will be an opportunity for participants to meet and discuss with the lecturers in the timeslot of the next Regular Lecture.