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DIM-CMM academics launch pioneering project in education

Posted on Jun 22, 2011 in News

DIM-CMM academics launch pioneering project in education

Initial Training Resources for Elementary School Teachers is the name of this initiative which among its objectives is to produce a collection of texts for pedagogy students and one for teacher educators to interpret the Standards of initial training for elementary school teachers in Mathematics developed in the INICIA program..

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International Workshop for faculty and future teachers

Posted on Jun 21, 2011 in News

International Workshop for faculty and future teachers

Challenges in the implementation of standards in teaching careers, resource use and opportunities for integrating disciplinary and pedagogical training of teachers were among others the topics discussed at the workshop organized by the project Fondef “Resources for Initial Training Resources of Elementary School teachers.”

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Chile now has unprecedented Monographs for Student in Mathematics Pedagogy

Posted on Jun 10, 2011 in News

Chile now has unprecedented Monographs for Student in Mathematics Pedagogy

For more than four years research mathematicians from the Universidad de Chile worked together with educators from various universities in the country for the development of this collection of books that will make a qualitative leap in the education. A public good that this University provides to the country by installing an extensive network of collaborators and a role model in other disciplines to improve the training of future teachers.

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DIM has a new Ph.D. in Mathematical Modeling

Posted on Jun 6, 2011 in News

DIM has a new Ph.D. in Mathematical Modeling

Pablo Figueroa Salgado received the degree of Doctor of Engineering Sciences, mention Mathematical Modeling, having successfully passed his thesis entitled “Construction of Solutions to Lioville Type Equations on the Flat Torus.”

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CMM researchers create textbooks to improve the quality of teachers

Posted on May 30, 2011 in News

CMM researchers create textbooks to improve the quality of teachers

The collection, unique in Chile, is composed of 14 monographs plus a book that includes the Case Study Method, which were developed with the aim of strengthening the disciplinary and pedagogical training of future teachers of Secondary Education in Mathematics, paying special attention to their needs.

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DIM-CMM researchers win the “Charles Broyden Prize 2010”

Posted on May 16, 2011 in News

DIM-CMM researchers win the “Charles Broyden Prize 2010”

The magazine Optimization, Methods and Software awarded the “Charles Broyden Prize 2010” to professors of the Department of Mathematical Engineering and researchers from the Centre for Mathematical Modeling (CMM), Felipe Álvarez and Héctor Ramírez, and doctoral students, Julio Lopez, for his outstanding contribution to the area of ​​optimization.

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The technical consultation for Teacher Education Standards begins

Posted on May 9, 2011 in News

The technical consultation for Teacher Education Standards begins

The development of language and math standards is the work of CIAE and CMM at the University of Chile, who presented their latest state of progress in the Centro de Perfeccionamiento, Experimentación e Investigaciones Pedagógicas (CPEIP).

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On purpose of the INICIA test

Posted on May 2, 2011 in News

On purpose of the INICIA test

The researcher Patricio Felmer comments about the results and the scope of this exam that graduates of teaching careers in elementary education take.

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The Banco Central and CMM organize a crucial meeting in Chile

Posted on Apr 29, 2011 in News

The Banco Central and CMM organize a crucial meeting in Chile

The Workshop, to be held between 4 and 6 May at Banco Central, will discuss, among other, the changes that current economic models would need to understand, address and to avoid in the best way a crisis in the financial system.

This is the first activity of the International Network on “Coordination of Expectations” integrated of 64 economists who are grouped into thirteen nodes, being Chile the only node in Latin America.

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CMM will participate in Activa Chile 2011

Posted on Apr 28, 2011 in News

CMM will participate in Activa Chile 2011

The meeting will discuss issues that may lead to Chile to become a digital society, including storage, movement and high speed processing of massive amounts of data and the required infrastructure to operate them.

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