13-17 Jul 2015
Washington DC, U.S.A.
Last Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations
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ThEdu'15
Theorem proving components for Educational software
July 13-17, 2015
http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu15
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at CICM 2015
Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
Washington DC, USA
http://cicm-conference.org/2015
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THedu'15 Scope:
The distinguishing feature of mathematics is reasoning: questionable
statements are proved by the laws of logic. This kind of reasoning
makes mathematics a central thinking technology of modern science.
Educational software tools have integrated technologies from
Computer Algebra, from Dynamic Geometry, from Spreadsheets and
others, but not from (computer) theorem proving (TP) with few
exceptions: the latter have been developed to model mathematical
reasoning in software; theorem provers (TPs) are successfully used
to tackle difficult proofs in the science of mathematics, like the
Four Color Problem or the Kepler Conjecture; and TPs are
successfully used to verify safety critical software in industry.
This workshop addresses support for reasoning in mathematics education
by use of TP technology.
The workshop addresses educators and designers and developers of TPs
as well as of other educational mathematics software; and the
discussions shall clarify the requirements of education, identify
advantages and promises of TP for learning and motivate development
of a novel kind of tools probably establishing a new generation of
educational mathematical tools.
Important Dates
* Extended Abstracts: 24 May 2015
* Author Notification: 08 June 2015
* Final Version: 21 June 2015
* Workshop Day: 1 day (13-17 July)
Points of interest include:
Adaptation of TP - concepts and technologies for education: knowledge
representation, simplifiers, reasoners; undefinedness, level of
abstraction, etc.
Requirements on software support for reasoning - reasoning appears
as the most advanced method of human thought, so at which age
and what kind of support TP can provide?
Automated TP in geometry - relating intuitive evidence with logical
rigour: specific provers, adaption of axioms and theorems, visual
proofs, etc.
Levels of authoring - in order to cope with generality of TP:
experts adapt to specifics of countries or levels, teachers adapt
to courses and students.
Adaptive modules, students' modelling and learning paths - services
for user guidance provided by TP technology: which interfaces
enable flexible generation of adaptive user guidance?
Next-step-guidance, which suggests a next step when a student gets
stuck in problem solving: which computational methods can extend
TP for that purpose?
TP as unifying foundation - for the integration of technologies like
CAS, DGS, Spreadsheets etc: interfaces for unified support of
reasoning?
Continuous tool chains - for mathematics education from high-school
to university, from algebra and geometry to graph theory etc.
Submission
We welcome submission of extended abstracts and demonstration
proposals presenting original unpublished work which is not been
submitted for publication elsewhere.
All accepted extended abstracts and demonstrations will be presented
at the workshop. The extended abstracts will be made available
online.
Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be submitted via
THedu'15 easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu15).
Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be no more than
4 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. They must
conform to the EPTCS style guidelines (http://style.eptcs.org/).
At least one author of each accepted extended abstract/demonstration
proposal is expected to attend THedu'15 and presents his/her extended
abstract/demonstration.
Program Committee
Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain
Roman Ha?ek, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Filip Maric, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Walther Neuper, Graz University of Technology, Austria(co-chair)
Pavel Pech, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair)
Vanda Santos, CISUC, Portugal
Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Burkhart Wolff, University Paris-Sud, France
Proceedings
Following ThEdu'13 and ThEdu'14 practise we expect to have a joint
proceedings of the workshops co-located with the Conferences on
Intelligent Computer Mathematics.