Programme

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Time
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
9:00 - 9:30
Plenary Lecture
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07
Room 010
Oral presentations
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 03
Room 101 & Room 105
9:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07 Lobby
10:30 - 11:00
Oral Presentations
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 03
Room 101 & Room 105
Coffee Break
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07 Lobby
11:00 - 11:30
Workshops
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 03
Room 101 & Room 105
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Oral presentations
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 03
Room 101 & Room 105

General Meeting
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07
Room 010

14:30 - 15:00
Arrival and Registration of Participants
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07
Lobby
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00
Opening Ceremony
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07
Room 010
Coffee Break
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07 Lobby
Closing Ceremony
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07
Room 010
16:00 - 16:30
Plenary lecture
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07
Room 010
Workshops
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 03
Room 101 & Room 105
Post-conference IC MCG meeting
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 03
Room 105
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 - 17:30
Workshops
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 03
Room 101 & Room 105
17:30 - 18:00
Free Time
Free time
18:00 - 18:30
18:30 - 19:00
Welcome Reception
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 07 Lobby
19:00 - 19:30
19:30 - 20:00
IC MCG Meeting
Social Facilities
Centre - SFC 03
Room 105
Conference Dinner
Kathodon Restaurant, Nicosia
Dinner
Evohia Lounge Bar & Buffet Restaurant, Nicosia
20:00 - 20:30
20:30 - 21:00

Detailed Program by day

Monday 24/4 (+)

14:30 - 15:30 Arrival and Registration of Participants (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Lobby)
15:30 - 16:00
Opening Ceremony (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Room 010)
  1. Professor Athanasios Gagatsis
    Vice Rector Academic Affairs, University of Cyprus
  2. Professor Roza Leikin
    President International Group for Mathematical Creativity and Giftedness
  3. Professor Marianne Nolte
    President-Elect International Group for Mathematical Creativity and Giftedness
16:00 - 17:00 Plenary lecture by Roza Leikin (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Room 010)
Developing Mathematical Creativity and Expertise in Students and Teachers: Focusing on Multiple Solution and Investigation Tasks
Chair: Demetra Pitta-Pantazi
17:00 - 18:30
Workshops (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 03)
 
Room 101
Room 105
Design of problems for research purposes with mathematically talented students
Rafael Ramírez, Juan Miguel Ribera Puchades, Maria José Beltrán-Meneu, Adela Jaime, Ángel Gutiérrez
Problem solving in context: A variety of extensions of problems
Konstantin Stolbov, Oleg Ivanov
18:30 - 19:30
Welcome Reception (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Lobby )
19:30 - 21:00
IC MCG Meeting (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 03 | Room 105)

Tuesday 25/4 (+)

09:00 - 10:00 Plenary lecture by Constantinos Christou
(Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Room 010)
Creativity and Imagination in Mathematics
Chair: Marianne Nolte
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Lobby)
10:30 - 12:30 Oral Presentations (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 03)
 
Room 101
Chair: Mark Applebaum
Room 105
Chair: Linda Sheffield
Enhancing creative problem solving in an integrated visual art and geometry program: A pilot study
Eveline Schoevers, Evelyn Kroesbergen
Teachers' perception in meeting the needs of mathematically gifted learners in diverse class in Botshabelo High Schools at Motheo district
Dimakatso Agnes Mohokare, Michael Kainose Mhlolo
'Can you challenge me in reasoning probability, please?'
Efi Paparistodemou, Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Christina Vasou
Strategies used by teachers for supporting mathematically gifted learners in Bloemfontein high schools
Jack Mathoga Marumo, Michael Kainose Mhlolo
Creation of mathematical objects as aspect of creativity in primary grades
Daniela Assmus, Torsten Fritzlar
Analysis of a gifted primary school student's answers to a pre-algebra teaching unit
Eva Arbona, Angel Gutiérrez, María José Beltrán-Meneu, Adela Jaime
Eye-tracking as a tool for investigating mathematical creativity from a process-view
Maike Schindler, Achim J. Lilienthal
Re-examining the educational provision for mathematically gifted students across different poverty strata in South Africa
Michael Kainose Mhlolo
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Oral presentations (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 03)
Room 101
Chair: Milos Savic
Room 105
Chair: Maike Schindler
Higher order thinking in mathematics: A complex construct
Demetra Pitta-Pantazi, Paraskevi Sophocleous
The role of the teacher-inventor in the differentiated learning environment
Maksim Ivanov
What is the relationship between critical thinking and problem posing ability?
Paraskevi Sophocleous, Demetra Pitta-Pantazi
Mathematics from old times and foreign countries – Encouraging mathematical creativity of primary students through ethnomathematics
Torsten Fritzlar, Maria Kötters, Karin Richter
Self-selected learning communities for problem solving in online math courses
Lynae Warren
Developing mathematical creativity in pre-school education
Maria Angela Shiakalli, Konstantinos Zacharos
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Lobby)
16:00 - 17:30 Workshops (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 03)
 
Room 101
Room 105
When the game ends, the math begins
Linda Sheffield
Using productive struggle to decrease frustration and increase motivation
William Speer
19:30 - 21:00 Conference Dinner - Kathodon Restaurant, Nicosia

Wednesday 26/4 (+)

09:00 - 10:30 Oral Presentations (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 03)
 
Room 101
Chair: Michael Kainose Mhlolo
Room 105
Chair: Torsten Fritzlar
Questions about identifying twice exceptional students in a talent search process
Marianne Nolte
Pedagogical practices that foster mathematical creativity at tertiary-level proof-based courses
Milos Savic, Houssein El Turkey, Gail Tang, Gulden Karakok, Emily Cilli-Turner, David Plaxco, Mohamed Omar
"Mathe mit pfiff" – A project aiming at extracurricular enrichment at school
Ralf Benölken
Does intelligence affect all students' mathematical creativity?
Maria Kattou, Constantinos Christou
The local mathematical contest as an assessment tool of students' mathematical capacity
Ingrida Veilande
Spatial abilities as predictor to mathematics performance of mathematics motivated students
Mark Applebaum
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Lobby)
11:00 - 12:30 Workshops (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 03)
Room 101
Room 105
Discoveries with DGE: Which one is more creative?
Roza Leikin, Haim Elgrably
ERASMUS+ funding, ideas and networking
Gregoris Makrides, Vassiliki Savvopoulou
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30

General Meeting (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Room 010)

15:30 - 16:00
Closing Ceremony ( Social Facilities Centre - SFC 07 | Room 010)
16:00 - 17:30 Post-conference IC MCG meeting (Social Facilities Centre - SFC 03 | Room 105)
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner - Evohia Lounge Bar & Buffet Restaurant, Nicosia