About the Journal

The International Journal for Mathematics in Education (HMS i-JME)

The impact of mathematics in education is extended to all levels of education. Within and between the content of various educational fields and in the pedagogical and administrative functions by multiple ways, mathematics are found in the core of projects and tacit or formal interactions: into mathematics education, in science and technology education , through classical studies, humanities and social sciences, but also in school culture through educational practices and values, as well as in the organization, administration and management of academic units, into assessment procedures and in instructional design in general.

Research activities are developed in all these fields and by the dynamic of their interactions are trying to better understand and study the context and phenomenology of the learning and teaching of mathematics, so to eliminate school failure and exclusions in the teaching of mathematics, to improve inventive and critical learning for all and develop the responsible use of mathematics in all fields.

In this context of systemic and interdisciplinary problematization, the Hellenic Mathematical Society launches the electronic version of the International Journal for Mathematics in Education -the seventh journal in its editorial collection.

The HMS International Journal for Mathematics in Education (in short HMS i-JME) welcomes high-quality research based theoretical or practice-oriented studies in mathematics education from an international audience. The mission of the Journal is to provide a forum for communicating critical and creative research in the field of Mathematics Education with reference to contributing studies in all educational levels from nursery to primary, to secondary and up to tertiary, as well as, to learning spaces inside and outside the school context and a variety of educative places such as formal and informal contexts. In parallel, the journal welcomes studies in areas of core concern including the mathematics subject didactics or the teaching and learning of mathematics, historiographies of mathematical concepts, histories of mathematical practices and mathematics education, research in contemporary mathematics teaching and mathematics teacher education, curricular studies, pedagogical design for learning and teaching and studies that explore relations amongst mathematics, science, arts and technologies.

Theoretically and methodologically the submitted papers may contribute through the lenses of pedagogy, psychology, semiotics, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and philosophy in ways that allow to discuss historical, discursive, cognitive, sociocultural, sociolinguistic, affective and political issues in mathematics and mathematics education.

Aiming to provide insights into ongoing research, the journal hosts Book Reviews of recent publications in mathematics education and PhD Theses Reviews provided by PhD students. Finally, special issue proposals could be submitted at the editorial board including a summary of the special issue idea along with a detailed overview of papers.

The Hellenic Mathematical Society (HMS)

The Hellenic Mathematical Society (HMS) has a history of 100 years. It was founded in 1918 in Athens and today it has branches in most prefectures of the country, while developing a multifaceted activity. Its operation is based on the voluntary contribution of its members, its administration, the dozens of its members who staff the working committees in Athens and other cities, as well as all the other members who contribute on a case-by-case basis.

The purpose of the HMS is the promotion and dissemination of various branches of Mathematics. This purpose is achieved through a series of goals that have been set and which are in general the following:

  • the advancement of Mathematics as a science;
  • the development of the free exchange of information between mathematicians, scientists and society;
  • the development and maintenance of scientific integrity and the improvement of the capabilities of its members;
  • the substantial and continuous improvement of mathematics education and the progress of general education;
  • the support of mathematics educators in Greece by enhancing their knowledge on recent advances in science and technology and by offering practical assistance in matters that concern their academic, educational or professional work.

In order to achieve the above objectives, the Board of Directors and the relevant committees of the HMS work methodically with coherence and responsibility, and voluntarily offer their time, ideas and knowledge. The context of the activities selected, organized and monitored by the Board of Directors to achieve the goals of the Society includes:

  1. a) The publication of journals and other publications, as well as the exchange of publications between the Mathematical Society and other Scientific Societies, Associations or Institutions of our country and abroad that pursue the same or similar purposes.
  2. b) The organization and operation of a library.
  3. c) The organization of lectures, discussions, seminars, conferences, the establishment of scientific centres and other scientific activities.
  4. d) The continuous improvement of various programs and the implementation of any activity worthy of the prestige and history of the HMS.

Particularly:

  • Every year the HMS conducts short-term and long-term seminars on Mathematics Teaching, Vocational Training in Informatics and IT Training for teachers.
  • HMS publishes two international revues, the Bulletin of the Hellenic Mathematical Society and the International Journal for Mathematics in Education (HMS i-JME), and the following magazines in greek: Mathematical Review, Little Euclides, Euclides Α, Euclides Β, Euclides γ΄, Astrolavos, Pythagoras, HMS Newsletter. From time to time the HMS also publishes selected mathematical books to enrich mathematical bibliography in greek.
  • HMS successfully holds the three-day annual Panhellenic Mathematics Education Conference, in which the participants are mathematicians and educators of mathematics from all over the country and abroad.
  • Moreover, HMS organizes the three annual Panhellenic Student Mathematical Competitions: "Thales", "Euclides", "Archimedes". The students distinguished in these Competitions form the national team representing Greece in the Balkan and International Mathematical Olympiad.
  • In 2007 HMS started to organize the competition "Game and Mathematics" for the students of the 5th grade of Primary School, in the context of "Little Euclides", a magazine for Primary School.
  • Since 2018, HMS publishes the magazine "Pythagoras" for mathematical skills in compulsory education and organizes the corresponding competition "Pythagoras".
  • The HMS implements educational and training programs under the auspices of the Ministry of Education or the European Union.
  • HMS maintains and develops the Lyceum Mathematics Theme Bank, a collection of dozens of classified exercises that is constantly growing and is freely available through the Internet.
  • HMS organizes the Mathematical Summer School for Junior High School and Lyceum students, harmoniously combining knowledge and entertainment, and the Summer Mathematical Camp for students of the last three grades of Primary School.

Editorial Board 

Editor

Ioannis Emmanouil, President of the Hellenic Mathematical Society

Editor in chief

Fragkiskos Kalavasis, University of the Aegean

Editorial board

Anna Chronaki, University of Thessaly

Despina Desli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Sonia Kafoussi, University of the Aegean

Andreas Moutsios-Rentzos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Giorgos Psycharis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Konstantinos Tatsis, University of Ioannina

International Scientific Committee 

Jill Adler, University of the Witwatersrand

Jehad Alshwaikh, Birzeit University

Marcelo Bairral, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro

Évelyne Barbin, Université de Nantes

Lisa Daragh, The University of Auckland

Abdellah El Idrissi, École Normale Superieure Marrakesh

Paul Ernest, University of Exeter

Matthew Inglis, Loughborough University

Ewa Lakoma, Institute of Mathematics Military University of Technology Warsaw

Andrea Maffia, University of Pavia

Bożena Maj-Tatsis, University of Rzeszow

Jean-Baptiste Lagrange, University of Paris - Diderot

Stephen Lerman, Loughborough University

Juan Pablo Mejia-Ramos, Rutgers University

Terezinha Nunes, University of Oxford

Javier-Diez Palomar, University of Barcelona

Luis Radford, Université Laurentienne

Cristina Sabena, University of Torino

Man Keung Siu, University of Hong Kong

Ole Skosvmose, Aalborg University

Alina Galvão Spinillo, Federal University of Pernambuco

Ewa Swoboda, Bronislaw Markiewicz State Higher School of Technology and Economics

Jana Trgalova, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Der-Ching Yang, National Chiayi University

Peer-review policy

HMS i-JME adopts a double-blind, peer-review model, with each submission sent to at least 2 reviewers – experts on the respective topic of the paper.

Publication

HMS i-JME publishes one regular issue per year (December).
Additional special issues may also be published.

Open Access Policy

HMS i-JME provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Authors are not charged with submission, production, processing or publication costs. Authors’ copyrights are preserved under Creative Commons Attribution-Νo Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This license requires that reusers give credit to the author(s) of the paper and to its first publication in the HMS i-JME journal. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format, for noncommercial purposes only. No distribution of a modified version of the papers is permitted without the authors’ written consent.

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