Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik


The Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik is a scientific society pursuing the goal to foster mathematics education, particularly in German-speaking countries. It seeks cooperation with the respective institutions in other countries.

Main interests

The society primarily concerns itself with:
The GDM consists of the executive board, the general assembly and the advisory board.
Currently, the executive board consists of:
Within the GDM there are numerous special interest groups concerned with different topics within mathematics education.
These special interest groups include:
All links to the website of each group can be found on .

Membership

Members generally work at universities or other scientific research groups, or are located in schools, though membership of the GDM is open to anyone interested in mathematics education. In 2011, one year's membership cost 60€ which includes multiple issues of members journals, plus the proceedings of the annual meeting.

Annual meeting

The society holds an annual meeting in Germany — the Tagung für Didaktik der Mathematik.

Journal publications

Mitteilungen der GDM

The members' journal Mitteilungen der GDM is published twice a year. The editor is Andreas Vohns, Klagenfurt, on behalf of the executive board.

Journal für Mathematik-Didaktik

The is the official organ of the GDM. Published quarterly, it contains original articles from all areas of mathematics education research and development. All articles are peer-reviewed by three anonymous referees. Decisions about the publication and modifications are made by the editorial board. Submissions are open to related sciences and neighbour sciences. All articles, however, are related to the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Conference proceedings

The GDM is responsible for the annual meeting of the society, the Tagung für Didaktik der Mathematik. The presentations of the conference are published in the series Beiträge zum Mathematikunterricht.
The German proceedings were published until 2007 at Verlag Franzbecker and can be ordered online. Starting 2008, they are published by WTM-Verlag, Münster and are available online.
Starting with the 2005 proceedings an electronic version can be found .