A conference on Mathematical Learning from Early Childhood to Adulthood was held in Mons in Belgium from June 9th to 12th, 2005. This is one of the first conferences to focus on the long-term cognitive growth of mathematical knowledge and to consider how earlier learning affects learning at later stages.


Nicolas Rouche and Guy Noël take part in the opening ceremony of their conference that considered the full development of mathematics from childhood to adulthood.
Jean Pièrre Kahane, speaks from the viewpoint of a mathematician.

Anna Sierpinska builds a theoretical framework...
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Alan Schoenfeld presents an overview of the present development of his theoretical framework for mathematical thinking.
Michèle Artigue speaks about mathematics at the higher levels.

Erich Wittmann presents his developments in the curriculum in Germany based on mathematics as the science of patterns ...


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David Tall presents his theoretical framework of Growth of Mathematical Thinking from Child to Mathematician based on three mental worlds of mathematics: embodied, symbolic, formal.
... including the theory of Gray and Tall that there is a growing spectrum of performance between those who remain wedded to procedures and those that learn to think flexibly.

The conference organisers: Nicolas Rouche ...
... and Guy Noël.
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