Dissemination of Information from Sixth International Congress of Mathematical Education

国际数学教育大会（ICME）是数学教育领域学者交流科学信息的最重要论坛。第六届ICME将于1988年7月17日至8月3日在匈牙利布达佩斯举行。考虑到目前数学教育的危机，重要的是，美国有重要的数学教育家，有关国会的信息在我们国家的数学教育家和教育领袖中广泛传播。在美国数学协会（MAA）的支持下，全国数学教师委员会（NCTM）将选出40名代表参加ICME-6，他们的旅费将得到部分补贴，并将提交一份关于大会活动的书面总结。这些报告以及应邀发表的一些人的论文将作为NCTM将出版的关于大会活动的专著的基础。文章将由颁奖委员会编写，提交给NCTM和MAA的通讯和期刊，总发行量近7万份。关于大会进程的介绍将安排在NCTM的各种会议上。在全球范围内开展数学教育的必要性再怎么强调也不为过。教育问题似乎比以前认为的更为普遍。如果我们要在数学教育中找到最有效的方法，那么各国之间分享解决方案是至关重要的。参加本次大会的美国数学教育工作者和随后的出版物将为那些关注数学教育现状的人提供宝贵的信息，这是一个在未来政治和经济领域具有重要意义的领域。

The International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) is the most important forum for exchanges of scientific information among scholars in mathematics education. The Sixth ICME will be held on July 17 - August 3, 1988 in Budapest, Hungary. Given the current crises in mathematics education, it is essential that the United States be well represented by key mathematics educators and that information about the Congress be widely disseminated among our nation's mathematics educators and educational leaders. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), with the support of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), will select 40 delegates to ICME-6 whose travel will be partially subsidized and who will submit a written summary of the Congress activities. Those reports along with invited papers by selected individuals will serve as a basis for a monograph on Congress activities that will be published by NCTM. Articles will be prepared by the Awards Committee to be submitted for publication in NCTM and MAA newsletters and journals with a combined circulation of nearly 70,000. Presentations on Congress proceeding will be arranged at various NCTM meetings. The necessity to gain mathematics education on a global basis cannot be too strongly emphasized. Problems in education appear to be more universal than previously thought. The sharing of solutions among nations is vital if we are to develop the most effective cures in mathematics education. Attendance at this Congress by mathematics educators from the United States and subsequent publications will provide invaluable information to those persons concerned with the current state of education in mathematics, an area of significance in future political and economic areas.