Topic Study Groups
As the name suggests, a Topic Study Group is designed to gather a group of congress participants who are interested in a particular topic in mathematics education. The word ‘study’ suggests that the activities of the groups will include presentations and discussions of important new trends and developments in research or practice related to the topic under consideration. Each TSG will be organised by a team of five prominent experts in the field. Two chairs have been appointed for each team. They are listed below with e-mail addresses. The teams are described when completed. Please see each team individually. The purpose of the TSGs is to provide both an overview of the current state-of-the-art in the topic, and expositions of outstanding recent contributions to it, as seen from an international perspective. By their very nature, some of the topics are focused more on research than on practice. For others the opposite will be the case, whereas several topics will have a fairly equal balance of the two.

To some extent, a number of the topics in the list for the Topic Study Groups have mutual overlaps with other topics. Even so, each topic has a well-defined and specific ‘centre of gravity’ that makes it clearly discernible from the others in the list.

The list of topics is organised into four clusters. The first cluster, TSG 1-7, consists of Topic Study Groups that focus on the target groups of mathematics teaching as reflected in educational levels and special categories of students. The next cluster, TSG 8-21, focuses on matters and issues pertaining to content-related aspects of mathematics curricula, across educational levels, and to teaching and learning in relation to those aspects. The cluster formed by TSG 22-27 deals with the overarching perspectives and facets of mathematics education that are present across different educational levels and different curricula. Finally, TSG 28-29 are the Groups in which meta-issues concerning mathematics education itself, as a field of practice and a discipline of research, are the focus of attention.

The TSGs will have three one-hour timeslots and one ninety-minute timeslot in the congress timetable at their disposal. Each TSG organising team will have the responsibility of updating the web site linked to the congress web site. On this site it will be possible to follow the planning process and eventually access all relevant documents including the timetable for TSG sessions. Participants who would like to present papers in a TSG are requested to communicate with the team chairs. The TSG teams are responsible for establishing a scheme for paper presentation by distribution, see "How to contribute". Typically proposals should be put forward before January 1, but specific guidelines, if such apply, will be made available on the web site.

New development and trends in mathematics education at pre-school and primary level
Team Chairs: Graham Jones, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, jones@ilstu.edu
                    Sally Peters, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, speters@waikato.ac.nz

New development and trends in mathematics education at secondary level
Team Chairs: Dirk de Bock, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, dirk.debock@avl.kuleuven.ac.be
                    Masami Isoda, University of Tsukuba, Japan, msisoda@human.tsukuba.ac.jp

New developments and trends in mathematics education at tertiary levels
Team Chairs: Derek Holton, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, dholton@maths.otago.ac.nz
                    Rina Zazkis, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, zazkis@sfu.ca

Activities and programmes for gifted students
Team Chairs: Ed Barbeau, University of Toronto, Canada, barbeau@math.utoronto.ca
                    Hyunyong Shin, Korea National University of Education, Chungbuk, Korea, shin@knue.ac.kr

Activities and programmes for Students with special needs
Team Chairs: Sinikka Huhtala, Helsinki City College of Social and Health Care, Finland, sinikka.huhtala@edu.hel.fi
                    Petra Scherer, University of Bielefeld, Germany, scherer@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de

Adult and lifelong mathematics education
Team Chairs: Tine Wedege, Roskilde University, Denmark, tiw@ruc.dk
                    Jeff Evans, Middlesex University Business School, London, United Kingdom, j.evans@mdx.ac.uk

Mathematics education in and for work
Team Chairs: Henk van der Kooij, The Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands, h.vanderkooij@fi.uu.nl
                    Rudolf Strässer, Luleå Technical University, Sweden, rudolf@sm.luth.se

Research and development in the teaching and learning of number and arithmetic
Team Chairs: Julia Anghileri, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, jea28@cus.cam.ac.uk
                    Lieven Verschaffel, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, lieven.verschaffel@ped.kuleuven.ac.be

Research and development in the teaching and learning of algebra
Team Chairs: Daniel Chazan, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, dc278@imap.umail.umd.edu
                    Eugenio Filloy Yagüe, Cinvestav, Mexico City, Mexico, smmeef@aol.com

Research and development in the teaching and learning of geometry
Team Chairs: Iman Osta, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Libanon, iman.osta@lau.edu.lb
                    Harry Silfverberg, University of Tampere, Finland, harry.silfverberg@uta.fi

Research and development in the teaching and learning of probability and statistics
Team Chairs: Li, Jun, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, lijun@math.ecnu.edu.cn; cn_sg@yahoo.com
                    Joseph M. Wisenbaker, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, joe@coe.uga.edu

Research and development in the teaching and learning of calculus
Team Chairs: Johan Lithner, Umeå University, Sweden, johan.lithner@math.umu.se
                    Maggy Schneider, FUNDP, Namur, Belgium, maggy.schneider@fundp.ac.be

Research and development in the teaching and learning of advanced mathematical topics
Team Chairs: Stephen Hegedus, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, USA, shegedus@umassd.edu
                    Caroline Lajoie, University of Québec at Montréal, Canada, lajoie.caroline@uqam.ca

Innovative approaches to the teaching of mathematics
Team Chairs: Claudi Alsina, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, claudio.alsina@upc.es;
                    dgu.dursi@gencat.net
                    Anne Watson, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, anne.watson@educational-studies.oxford.ac.uk

The role and use of technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics
Team Chairs: Lulu Healy, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, lulu@pucsp.br
                    Jim Kaput, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, USA, jkaput@umassd.edu

Visualisation in the teaching and learning of mathematics
Team Chairs: Gerald Goldin, Rutgers University, Piscataway USA, gagoldin@dimacs.rutgers.edu
                    Walter Whiteley, York University, Toronto, Canada, whiteley@mathstat.yorku.ca

The role of the history of mathematics in mathematics education
Team Chairs: Man-keung Siu, University of Hong Kong, China - Hong Kong, mathsiu@hkucc.hku.hk
                    Costas Tzanakis, University of Crete, Greece, tzanakis@edc.uoc.gr

Problem solving in mathematics education
Team Chairs: Jinfa Cai, University of Delaware, Newark, USA, jcai@math.udel.edu
                    Joanna Mamona Downs, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, mamona@uom.gr

Reasoning, proof and proving in mathematics education
Team Chairs: Guershon Harel, University of California, San Diego, USA, harel@math.ucsd.edu
                    Sri Wahyuni, Gadjah Mada University, Yagyarkata, Indonesia, swahyuni@indosat.net.id

Mathematical applications and modelling in the teaching and learning of mathematics
Team Chairs: S.K.Houston, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northen Ireland, sk.houston@ulster.ac.uk
                    Shan-Zhi Wang, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, wsz@mail.cnu.edu.cn

Relations between mathematics and others subjects of art and science
Team Chairs: Marta Anaya, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, manaya@fi.uba.ar
                    Claus Michelsen, SDU-Odense University, Denmark, claus.michelsen@dig.sdu.dk

Learning and cognition in mathematics: Students’ formation of mathematical conceptions, notion, strategies and beliefs
Team Chairs: Terezinha Nuñes, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom, tnunes@brookes.ac.uk
                    Dina Tirosh, Tel Aviv University, Israel, dina@post.tau.ac.il

Education, professional life and development of mathematics teachers
Team Chairs: Milan Hejny, Charles University of Prague, The Czech Republic, milan.hejny@pedf.cuni.cz
                    Barbara Jaworski, Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway, barbara.jaworski@hia.no

Students' motivation and attitudes towards mathematics and its study
Team Chairs: Philip C. Clarkson, Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia, p.clarkson@patrick.acu.edu.au
                    Markku Hannula, University of Turku, Espoo, Finland, markku.hannula@zpg.fi

Language and communication in mathematics education
Team Chairs: Norma Presmeg, Illinois State University, Normal, USA, npresmeg@math.ilstu.edu;
                    npresmeg@msm.com
                    Siegbert Schmidt, University of Cologne, Germany, siegbert.schmidt@uni-koeln.de

Gender and mathematics education
Team Chairs: Liv Sissel Grønmo, University of Oslo, Norway, l.s.gronmo@ils.uio.no
                    Hanako Senuma, National Institute of Educational Research, Tokyo, Japan, hanako@nier.go.jp

Research and development in assessment and testing in mathematics education
Team Chairs: Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, m.vandenheuvel@fi.uu.nl
                    Tom Romberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, tromberg@facstaff.wisc.edu

New trends in mathematics education as a discipline
Team Chairs: Tommy Dreyfus, Tel Aviv University, Israel, tommyd@post.tau.ac.il
                    Domingo Paola, Liceo Scientifico “A. Issel”, Alassio, Italy, domingo.paola@tin.it

The history of the teaching and the learning of mathematics
Team Chairs: Gert Schubring, University of Bielefeld, Germany, gert.schubring@uni-bielefeld.de
                    Yasuhiro Sekiguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan, ysekigch@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp