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Fall Western Sectional Meeting of the AMS
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 24-25, 2020

Special Session on "How to Solve It? Heuristics and Inquiry Based Learning"

PROGRAM and information

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Cancellations and Updates

The György Pólya Heuristic Subcommittee of the Standing Committee of the History of Science and Technology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences informs all affected participants that due to precautions around COVID-19, the Special Session of the Spring Meeting of the AMS below that was jointly organized by the Research Centre for the Humanities and the California State University, Fresno has been CANCELLED.

Special Session of the Spring Western Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society on "How to Solve It? Heuristics and Inquiry Based Learning

The Spring Western Sectional Meeting was CANCELLED by the AMS because of COVID-19.

Since at least half of our session presenters enthusiastically supported our idea of proposing the same special session for the upcoming

Fall Western Sectional Meeting of AMS
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 24-25, 2020,

we reorganized the session for the Fall Western Sectional Meeting.

See the details and the deadlines HERE.

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AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Spring Western Sectional Meeting

California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA

Special Session on How to Solve It? Heuristics and Inquiry Based Learning

Saturday May 2, 2020, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.

Special Session on How to Solve It? Heuristics and Inquiry Based Learning, I
Room 308, Science 2 Building
Organizers:
Mario Banuelos, California State University, Fresno
Andrew G. Benedek, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary
Agnes Tuska, California State University, Fresno
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 8:30 a.m.
  Investigating Resampling Methods in Upper Division Math Courses.
  Mario Banuelos*, California State University, Fresno
  (1158-97-292)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Linking IBL and Research through Dialectical Heuristics.
  Zoe C Ashton*, The Ohio State University
  (1158-97-258)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The What and Why Behind IBL Communities: Beginning to Build in CA & NV.
  Megan E Selbach-Allen*, Stanford University
  (1158-97-306)

Saturday May 2, 2020, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.

- Special Session on How to Solve It? Heuristics and Inquiry Based Learning, II
  Room 308, Science 2 Building
  Organizers:
  Mario Banuelos, California State University, Fresno
  Andrew G. Benedek, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary
  Agnes Tuska, California State University, Fresno
- 3:00 p.m.
- Learning through Problem-Solving.
  Ravi Damodar Vakil*, Stanford University
  (1158-97-195)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Polya's "Let us Teach Guessing" Revisited: Shortest Distance Problems.
  Peter Tannenbaum*, Santa Barbara, CA
  (1158-97-37)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Let's Take Polya Back to School.
  Robert G Stein*, California State University, San Bernardino
  (1158-97-134)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday May 3, 2020, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.

Special Session on How to Solve It? Heuristics and Inquiry Based Learning, III
Room 308, Science 2 Building
Organizers:
Mario Banuelos, California State University, Fresno
Andrew G. Benedek, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary
Agnes Tuska, California State University, Fresno
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 8:30 a.m.
  Towards a Lacanian Critique in Mathematics Education: The University Discourse and Current Work.
  Lance D Burger*, California State University, Fresno
  (1158-97-137)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Learning from and Working with Contradictions in Heuristics.
  Can Başkent*, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, London
  (1158-03-118)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Models and Logics in the Practice of Mathematical Heuristics: Tools for concept development and discovery or just for retroactive reconstruction?
  Andrew G. Benedek*, Institute of Philosophy Research Centre for the Humanities
  (1158-94-248)

Sunday May 3, 2020, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on How to Solve It? Heuristics and Inquiry Based Learning, IV
Room 308, Science 2 Building
Organizers:
Mario Banuelos, California State University, Fresno
Andrew G. Benedek, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary
Agnes Tuska, California State University, Fresno agnest@csufresno.edu
- - 2:00 p.m.
    Unusual chessboard tasks for gifted learners.
    Péter Juhász*, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
    (1158-97-132)
  - 3:00 p.m.
    Food For Thought: Exploring Euclidean and non-Euclidean Geometries.
    Jennifer E Clinkenbeard*, California State University Monterey Bay
    (1158-97-106)
  - 3:30 p.m.
    George Polya's influence on mathematics competitions in the USA.
    Agnes Tuska*, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Fresno
    (1158-01-364)
  - 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion

The Anatomy of Thought – Student Challenge

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The Anatomy of Thought – Student Challenge
2nd International Heuristics Conference: Motivating, Orienting and Modeling Invention
Balatonfüred, August 30-31, 2019.
http://heurisztika.btk.mta.hu/en/

How is thinking and talking related in problem-solving? How our wordless train of thought does arrive at a solution? How can we put out our ideas from our heads and present them in such ways that others can understand them following our line of reasoning?

In our second student program, we challenge individual students just as student groups to present their personal or group-wise ways to genuine solutions of problems. We expect to spell out how they came to their conclusions representing the road leading from the beginning thoughts to their arrival to a solution, or the lack of it, in such a manner that other thinkers can best understand it.

The Challenge addresses the following questions: What role manipulatives and our embodied gestures and practices play in spelling out our problem-solving procedures? What knowledge organizing tools we have for capturing and recording our steps towards crucial points and how can we present our way to new discoveries and insights?

The applicants may select the knowledge organizing tools that they use for the purpose of making their “Anatomy of Thoughts” comprehensible and representable. They can decide what methods and instruments are the best for this purpose ranging from pen and pencil visualizations or video recordings through-enhancing digital environments or augmented reasoning to personal virtual presentations or group-shows.

We only present the problems and suggest some exemplary tools from a possible toolbox that may be useful. The applicants are expected to do their own research and develop their own inventory that fits the best the representation of their own ways to their insights.

The Jury will evaluate not the solutions themselves but the effort and success of the applicants in making their problem solving comprehensible and achieving a traceable reproduction of their thinking process. “Dead-ends” are just as welcome as new discoveries and the point is not finding a solution but spelling out how you had arrived at finding, or not finding, it a solution.

Consequently, the assigned problems are not set tasks or word problems with predefined solutions rather challenges giving the opportunity to tell your own story of struggling with them.

We are looking forward to receiving the presentation of the solution of one of the assigned problems and a freely chosen problem from each applicant. The assigned problems will be published on July 15, 2019, on this website of the conference. See the instructions for submission of the presentations in accordance with the detailed tender conditions specified below. The deadline for submission is August 25, 2019 midnight.

Some suggested tools you can (optionally) use:

https://www.geogebra.org/?lang=hu

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

https://www.wabisabilearning.com/blog/a-list-of-the-best-free-digital-storytelling-tools-for-teachers

https://mindgraph.co/

https://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=61932&vt=ngraph&dc=focus

https://screencast-o-matic.com/plans

https://www.nchsoftware.com/software/recording.html

https://www.sodapdf.com/blog/best-free-recording-software/

https://www.thepodcasthost.com/editing-production/producing-editing-an-audio-drama-podcast/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.knnv.geometrycalcfree&hl=en_US

Conditions of application

Tenders that arrive by August 25, 2019, 24:00 hour are going to be considered. Apply by sending a message attaching a decoding posy-file to heurisztika2019@gmail.com">heurisztika2019@gmail.com as follows.

Applicant(s) are expected to submit a password-protected Word doc or docx , or PDF file containing

1) the name,

2) year of birth,

3) email address of the applicant(s) (and if willing, their phone number),

4) their educational institution,

5) their grade, and

6) name and

7) contact details of (at least one of) their teacher(s)/ trainer(s).

Please specify in the filename the posy that will be referenced in all further submissions!

Applicants are to present the solution of one of the assigned tasks and a mathematical problem of their choice based on their own solution.

In another (not password protected) descriptive Word or PDF file containing only the posy but not the name of the applicants, please submit (to heurisztika2019@gmail.com) that which assigned task was chosen and describe the freely chosen problem including the used processing and presentation method. (The presentation of the processing of these two tasks may be different; one may be submitted digital material and the other a personal presentation.)

The process of problem-solving can be presented

1) in digital form, in the way that the applicant(s) describe the processing and presentation method in the submitted descriptive Word or PDF file, or

2) in the form of a personal presentation as part of the student program “An Anatomy of Thought – Student Challenge” starting at 9:45 in Vaszary Gallery, on September 1, 2019, in Balatonfüred.

The time available for personal presentation will be max. 12 minutes. The presentations, if permission is received, will be video recorded.

It is also possible to use digital devices (notebook, software, projector) in the case of personal presentations. Please specify the devices you want to use in the submitted descriptive (Word or PDF) file.

All completed digital materials must be submitted by the applicant (s) no later than 25 August 2019, 24:00, providing access to them for evaluation. Submission is by uploading the digital materials to the applicant’s personal Google Drive and providing access to them by sharing the files with heurisztika2019@gmail.com or by choosing a similar access-providing solution (e.g. Dropbox).

It is the responsibility of the applicant(s) to provide proper access to their submissions and ensure the playability or downloadability of their digital materials.

The submissions received will be evaluated on September 1, 2019, in Vaszary Gallery, Balatonfüred.

Besides issuing a certificate of participation to each applicant, we plan to award a total of 50-100.000 HUF depending on the quality and quantity of outstanding applications.

Assigned Problems:

Construct a triangle that has exactly the same area as a given quadrilateral. Construct as many different triangles as you can. Explain your construction methods. How did you come up with this idea? Why does it work? Generalization challenge: How could you construct a triangle that has the same area as a given polygon of many vertices (pentagon, hexagon, etc.)?
Suppose that there are 100 ambassadors invited into a banquet. Every ambassador has at most 49 enemies. Can the ambassadors be seated around a round table so that nobody sits next to their enemy? Give more than one solution and spell out how you discovered it!
Agnes runs on the same route every morning, starting at the same time. Her route includes running through a bridge that has railroad tracks, too. Each morning there is a passenger train crossing the bridge while Agnes is running. Agnes knows that the train whistles when she has passed 3/8 of the length of the bridge. She has experienced several times that if she keeps running with full speed forward, the train reaches her exactly at the moment when she gets to the further end of the bridge. On the other hand, if she turns around at the moment she hears the whistle and keeps running with full speed towards the closer end of the bridge, she meets the train exactly at the closer end of the bridge. The “full speed” Agnes can maintain is 7 miles per hour. What is the speed of the train?
Regarding a group of n individuals (n>2) we know two parameters: first, the number of the relationships in the group; second, the average number of offsprings in a given reproductive cycle.
a) Investigate (in terms of n, m, and k) the conditions for „long-term” (i.e., at least m>2 cycles) survival of the group if the average lifespan of a group member is k.
b) What other parameters may influence the solution and how? E.g., what happens if we do not only know the average number of offsprings but also their distribution? Construct models which take into account these further parameters.
Andrew is 185 cm tall. He wants to hang a mirror in his bathroom so that he could see his whole body in the mirror when he stands in front of the mirror. Help him! The longer the mirror, the more expensive it is. What is the shortest mirror that would do the job? Does it depend on the size of his bathroom? Does it matter how he hangs the mirror? How long is the shortest mirror in which both Andrew and his 1m tall daughter can fully see themselves?

+ A problem of your choice presenting your attempts of its solution.

Remark: Describe the problems you encountered during the solution. If a problem is not unambiguous solve it in all possible sense! Record, reproduce and explain your individual or collective thinking process!

This book may help you:

If you are in Hungary you can read it nearby the George Polya Memorial Tree in the memorial tree park of the Tagore promenade in Balatonfüred.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM (EN)

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The international conference is a free, multi-day event organized by the Standing Committee of the History of Science and Technology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences that founded the György Pólya Heuristic Subcommittee and by the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with the support of the National Cultural Fund.

The conference focuses on the psychological problems of heuristics, motivation for innovative behavior, computer-assisted discovery and modeling of innovative thinking.

The STUDENT PROGRAM is designed to engage students in research. Students can apply for the program with their own digital programs, multimedia materials, videos, and mathematical proofs and problem-solving. (See “The Anatomy of Thinking” featured in Call for Proposals under MAIN PAGE.) The Sunday afternoon program features international workshops for students, parents, and teachers in a playful session illustrating experiential mathematics learning for students ages 9-18.

The event is hosted by NMI Balatonfüred Cultural Nonprofit Ltd. with the support of the Balatonfüred Local Government and the Lóczy Lajos Grammar School. No pre-registration required. The language of the event is English and Hungarian.

2nd International Conference on Heuristics:

Motivating, Orienting and Modeling Invention

Balatonfüred, August 30 – September 1, 2019

August 30, 2019, 09:45 - 12:30, Friday Morning Program
Location: Vaszary Galéria

Video Session and discussion of pre-recorded talks and demonstrations

09:45 – 10:00 Opening Thoughts on Motivating, Orienting and Modeling Invention
András G. Benedek, organizer, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

10:00 – 10:15 Problem-solving in a Dynamic Mathematics Environment
Erhan Selcuk Haciomeroglu, Temple University, Japan Campus

10:15 – 10:45 Computer Assisted Heuristic Learning of Analysis
Katalin Munkácsy, Eötvös Loránd University – Eleonóra Stettner, Kaposvár University

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:25 Creative Thinking Control: Lev Landa and his Algo-Heuristic Theory
Ekaterina Babintseva, University of Pennsylvania, USA

11:25 – 11:50 The Moment of Discovery in Flow
Olga Kiss, Corvinus University, Budapest

11:50 – 12:15 Multi-, and transdisciplinary approaches to learning mathematics through creative activities, arts and digital technology
Prof. Zsolt Lavicza, director, Johannes Kepler University, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Center, Linz;
Kristóf Fenyvesi, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä / Experience Workshop; Bridges Organization

12:15 – 12:30 Commentary by Eleonóra Stettner, Kaposvár University

12:30 – 13:30 Informal discussion with the participants

(No host pizza and salad bar, Club Mauro Pizzéria)

August 30, 2019, Friday Afternoon Program
Location: Vaszary Galéria

13:30 – 14:00 Official Opening Ceremony
by the City Council of Balatonfüred
Miklós Laczkovich, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

14:00 – 15:45 Keynotes

14:00 – 14:45 Psychology of problem-solving and its role in education: from sputnik shock to the web
A problémamegoldás pszichológiája és szerepe a nevelésben: a szputnyik sokktól a webig.
Csaba Pléh, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

15:00 – 15:45 A Dienes Módszer – The Dienes Method
Prof. Sándor Klein, professor emeritus, University of Pécs

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break

Friday afternoon Round Table, Location: Vaszary Galéria

16:00 – 17:00 Pólya György és Dienes Zoltán hatása a problémamegoldás történetére és számítógépes támogatására
George Pólya’s and Zoltán Dienes’s effect on the history of problem-solving and its computational augmentation (in Hungarian)
Pléh Csaba akadémikus,
Klein Sándor, prof. emeritus, University of Pécs
Honfi Vid S. főiskolai tanár,
Ollé János, egyetemi docens, Pannon Egyetem,
Benedek András, moderator, MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont

17:00 – 17:30 Prof. Dienes’s Games and its mathematical connections in art, music, architecture, education, and culture
interactive exhibition: Tools and motivations for a transdisciplinary experience
Opening of the interactive exhibition: Sándor Klein, professor emeritus, University of Pécs, and SHL Hungary

18:30 – No host dinner at Halászkert

August 31, 2019, Saturday Program
Location: Vaszary Galéria

The Psychology of Heuristics
Chair: Csaba Pléh, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

09:45 – 10:20 Beyond Symbols: Movement, Communication and Intuition in Valéria Dienes's Philosophy, Psychology and Pedagogy
Brigitta Balogh, Partium Christian University / Eötvös Loránd University - Doctoral School of Education

10:20 – 10:55 Brains - Minds - Maths
Zsuzsa Kondor, Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

10:55 – 11:30 Applications of deep learning to brain research
Regina Meszlényi-Deák, Research Center for the Natural Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 – 12:20 From heuristics to the changing logic of discovery - Pólya and Lakatos
Dániel Golden, Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

12:20 – 12:55 On the origin and psycho-logic background of Zoltán P. Dienes’s Principles
András Benedek, Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

12:55 – 14:00 Lunch break (No host Club Mauro Pizzéria)

14:00 – 14:45 Keynote: Implicit sequence learning and abstract structures: How can it be computationally modelled?
Prof. Zoltan Dienes, University of Sussex, UK

15:00 – 16:30 Panel discussion Symbolism and Embodiment: from movement to mathematics and on the way back:
Agnes Boreczky, professor emeritus, Loránd Eötvös University
István Pálosi, director-choreographer, Hungarian Art of Movement Company,
Zsuzsa Kondor and András Benedek, Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Brigitta Balogh, Partium Christian University / Eötvös Loránd University - Doctoral School of Education

16:30 – 17:30 Forum of International Projects and Collaborations
Agnes Tuska, CSU, Fresno, Deborah Stipek (Stanford University) Development and Research in Early Math Education,
Kristóf Fenyvesi, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä / Experience Workshop, Bridges Organization
Stan Yoshinobu, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Activating Polya's Method via Inquiry-Based Learning

September 1, 2019, Sunday Student Program
Location: Vaszary Galéria

How is it possible to invent such a solution - An Anatomy of Thought

10:00 – 10:15 The research initiative behind the Student Challenge
András G. Benedek, Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

10:15 – 11:30 “Anatomy of Thought” in action: presentations, reflections and practices
Prof. Agnes Tuska, California State University, Fresno

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:30 Keynote A mesterséges intelligencia hatása a gondolkodásra – The effect of Artificial Intelligence on Thinking
Prof. László Mérő, Eötvös Loránd University

12:30 – 13:00 Change of location: walk to the Pólya-tree in the memorial tree park of the Tagore promenade

13:00 – 13:30 Commemoration (neé-Kántor S. Tünde, Univ. of Debrecen) and
Announcement of Awards of the “Anatomy of Thought” Student Challenge by Dr. István Bóka, Mayor of Balatonfüred

Location: Vaszary Galéria

14:00 – 15:30 Games and Challenges for students and families
Demonstrations using the games and exhibited tools

Demonstrators: Prof. Agnes Tuska CSU Fresno, Kristóf Huszár, IST Austria, Ildikó Szabó, Experience Workshop, Sándor Róka, talent developer,
Gergely Bunth, Doctoral School of Math and Computer Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

16:00 – 17:15 Boat Tour on Lake Balaton with Informal discussions:
Plans for collaboration preparing the Proceedings of Heuristics
Building a Network of Excellence for Heuristic Research

Keynote Speakers:

Zoltan Dienes Sándor Klein László Mérő Csaba Pléh

Invited international virtual speakers:

Zsolt Lavicza Kristóf Fenyvesi Deborah Stipek

Zoltan P. Dienes in Hungary - 31 years ago

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Previous events:

"How Did You Solve it?" - The School of Mathematical Discovery and its History

(Balatonfüred, September 14–16, 2017)

The event is organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), with the participation by foreign workshops and by the Didactic Group of the Alfréd Rényi Mathematical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, The Joy of Thinking Foundation, the Budapest Semester in Mathematics Education, the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), the hosting Lóczy Lajos High School, schools employing exemplary teaching methods (Fazekas Mihály Grammar School and Szent István Secondary School. Budapest) and by teachers of several schools in the region. The title of the two-day event refers to the title of the classic “How to Solve It” by George Pólya (1887- 1985). Its goal is the national dissemination of the international results of modern teaching methodology, the „Heuristic Method”, and the presentation of the traditions of didactic methods and current practices of leading Hungarian working groups to the international mathematics community (“Hungarian Approach”).

The Heuristic Method of Discovery is one of the most important living traditions of Hungarian mathematics education, which is linked to several workshops and historical antecedents of George Pólya’s work, such as the Arany Dániel competitions, the creation of the High School Mathematics Journal, or Karácsony Sándor’s educational philosophy, outstanding teachers , such as László Surányi and Lajos Pósa, and related workshops. Presentation of the method is not a simple task, especially in a conference environment. With video-technology solutions, we try to link demonstration sessions with professional and theoretical reflection in order to bring it back to practice. The already recorded material is published in advance, and some of the participants' discussions and lectures are also recorded, with the aim of generating materials that can be used methodically later.

We strive not only to revive the intellectual heritage of George Pólya or to capture the personal charm of a school-building scholar, but also to give a sample of the diverse possibilities of the Heuristic Method of Discovery, combine and confront it with the practices of foreign participants, schools and universities related to project-based learning, talent management, and work with disadvantaged students in math education.

All this is matched with mathematical and philosophical reflection and didactical analytical work that attempts to explore the essence, history as well as social and sociological problems of applying the Heuristic Method of Discovery and the difficulties of community creation and motivation in today's educational environment. Professional backgrounds are provided by the members of the MTA Methodology Working Group, NIIF Videotórium and VIDRA software developers.

The event is considered to be the first occasion of a series of events that allows the establishment of the "International George Pólya Society for the Teaching of Mathematical Heuristics" which will allow regular domestic and international exchanges of experiences.

Program

How do we solve it?

Student Program

September 14, 2017. Thursday morning (Location:Lóczy Lajos High School)

9:15-9:55 Giving Life to Problems: Area-conservative Transformations using GeoGebra
Special Mathematics Class (in English). Prof. Agnes Tuska, California State University

10:00-12:00 The Joy of Thinking – Playful Mathematical Group Activity

(in Hungarian). Lajos Pósa, the Didactic Group of the Alfréd Rényi Mathematical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

12:00 -12:55 Lunch break

September 14, 2017, Thursday afternoon (Location: Kisfaludy Galéria)

13:00 - 13:30 Student presentation (in English) about „The Mathematics of Voting Systems”
project

13:30 - 14:00 Learning Opportunities, responses to students’ questions (in English)

14:00 - 14:45 Poster Exhibition by the students of Lóczy Lajos High School about the life of
George Pólya

14:45 - 15:00 Judging student work

15:00 - 15:30 Pólya-tree planting in the memorial tree park of the Tagore promenade

15:30-16:00 Award ceremony

Conference Program

September 15, 2017, Friday morning (Location:Kisfaludy Galéria)

09:15 – 10:00 Opening ceremony (in Hungarian)
Katalin Duna, Head of the Lóczy Lajos High School
István Bóka, Mayor of Balatonfüred
András Benedek CSc., organizer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Center for the Humanities,

10:00 – 10:45 Keynote Talk (in Hungarian), George Pólya and the Heuristic Tradition
Prof. Tibor Frank, corr. member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
(English version available)

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Presentation and discussion of pre-recorded demonstration lessons (in both Hungarian and English) Presenters: Géza Kiss (Fazekas Mihály High School, Budapest), Péter Juhász, (Didactics Group of Rényi Alfréd Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Réka Szász, (Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education), Agnes Tuska (California State University, Fresno).

12:00 – 13:00 Informal discussion with the participants (Pizza and salad bar)

September 15, 2017, Friday afternoon: Parallel sessions (Location:Lóczy Lajos Gimnázium)

Section A:

13:00 – 13:45 What would Pólya Do? Great problems for young minds. Interactive presentation (in English), Jennifer Clinkenbeard & J. Brook Ernest, California State University, Channel Islands

13:45 – 14:30 Learning Discoveries in the USA and HUNGARY Informal discussion-group (in English) with the participation of American prospective teachers in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education program and students of Lóczy Gimnazium

Section B:

13:00 – 14:30 "How Did You Solve It?" Workshop (in Hungarian)
Reports and presentations of working groups on methods of heuristic approach in Hungary and abroad
Chair: Miklós Laczkovich member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

What is BSME striving for? Réka Szász, (Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education)
MaMuT (Informal presentation about the activities of The Camp of Fun with Mathematics, the Joy of Thinking Foundation (Gondolkodás Öröme Alapítvány) by Péter Juhász, Didactics Group, MTA Rényi Alfréd Mathematical Research Institute)
How could math look like as a result of collaboration? Report on the goals and methods, and on-going development of the Pólya Center (Prof. Ágnes Tuska, California State University)
Paul Erdős Mathematical Talent School (Ferenc Pintér )
Minerva Learning Alternative Foundation (Cz. Nagyné Klára Bándi)
Lovassy László Gimnázium Veszprém

14:30 – 14:45 Coffee break

14:45 – 15:15 Towards developing the „International George Pólya Society for the Teaching of Mathematical Heuristics”: Presentation of the goals and experiences of the network building (in Hungarian)
Dr. András Benedek, MTA BTK, András Kmetykó, organizer of Pólya-Szegő Memorial Conference

15:15 – 16:15 History of Science in Heuristics, Heuristics in the History of Science Panel discussion (in Hungarian).
Participants: Miklós Laczkovich member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Csaba Pléh, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Gábor Kutrovácz, ELTE, Vera Békés, MTA BTK, Gábor Zemplén BME, József Korándi, ELTE
Moderator: András Benedek, MTA BTK.

16:15 – 17:00 Afternoon plenary talk (in English) Use of Digital Tools in Mathematical Discovery
Prof. Zsolt Lavicza, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Center, Johannes Kepler University, Linz

17:00 – 17:30 Break

17:30 – 18:30 Forum of International Projects and Collaborations.
Videoconference with Hungarian and international participants (in English).

19:00 – Common no-host dinner in Halászkert

September 16, 2017, Saturday morning Parallel sessions (Location:Lóczy Lajos Gimnázium)

Section A: The Philosophy of Heuristics (in English, A-room) Chair: Zsuzsa Kondor, MTA BTK

09:00 – 9:40 Conjectures, puzzles and problems - Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, and Pólya on the nature of scientific discovery
Dániel Golden, MTA BTK

10:00 – 10:45 The Hermeneutic Problem in Pólya's Mathematical Heuristic
Olga Kiss, Corvinus University

Section B: Student Character – Teacher Character. The importance of role models and patterns in learning mathematics in the 21^st century (in Hungarian, B-room)
Chair: László Hatvani, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

09:15 – 9:55 Patterns and Heuristics in Informatics
Róbert Oláh-Gál, Sapientia University

10:00 – 10:45 How do we solve it? Methods and Thinking Patterns in Contemporary Math-education

10:00 – 10:25 The reform of Tamás Varga in the context of Hungarian Heuristic tradition: Historical, philosophical, and didactical approaches (Katalin Gosztonyi, ELTE)
10:25 – 10:45 My encounter with George Pólya as novice teacher and as mathematics educator (Ödön Vancsó, ELTE)

10:45 – 11:15 Break (change of location)

September 16, 2017 Saturday Plenary program (in English and Hungarian, Location: Kisfaludy Galéria)

11:15 – 11:55 Can we consider Heuristics a Science? András Benedek, MTA BTK

12:00 – 12:55 No-host working lunch in Club Mauro Pizzéria

13:00 – 14:00 Panel discussion: Is problem-solving teachable in the spirit of George Pólya?
Participants: Miklós Laczkovich member of the Academy and the former chair of the Mathematics Working Committee of Public Education, László Hatvani member of the Academy, Tibor Frank corr. member of the Academy, Prof. Ágnes Tuska, Pólya Center, California, László Surányi, Didactics Group, MTA Rényi Alfréd Mathematical Research Institute Ödön Vancsó, ELTE. Moderators: Péter Juhász, MTA Rényi Institute Didactics Group and Réka Szász, BSME

14:00 – 14:15 Closing plenary remarks

14:15 – 15:00 Placing a memorial plaque at the Pólya tree in the Tagore Promenade and Memorial Park in
Balatonfüred

15:00 – Informal discussion of plans for collaboration and dissemination with optional excursion by boat
(Boat departure time: 16:00)