DIDACTICA MATHEMATICAE Vol. 41, 2019
CONFERENCES
Jubilee Congress of Polish Mathematicians
On September 3-7, 2019, in Krakow, the Jubilee Congress of Polish Ma- thematicians took place, organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Polish Mathematical Society. The congress became an opportunity to meet mathematicians who are active in the country. Additionally, mathematicians who, for various reasons, went abroad and conduct their activities there, were also present. Finally, the congress gathered many mathematics teachers and all those for whom mathematical issues are within their interests.
The program was very rich. Among other activities, there were lectures by scientists representing various elds of mathematics. Several sessions were de- voted to mathematics education. One of them took the form of a panel session entitled On teacher education and key problems in mathematics teaching.
The session was moderated by Dr. Zdzisªaw Pogoda from the Institute of Ma- thematics of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Participants of the panel session were: prof. Maciej Sysªo from Warsaw School of Computer Science, prof. Ryszard Pawlak from ód¹ University, prof. Tomasz Szemberg from the Pedagogical University of Cracow, and prof. Michaª Szurek from the University of Warsaw. In the second part of this session there was a discussion of panelists with the audience.
The panelists have agreed to publish their talks. Here we present the talks of two panel participants: prof. Ryszard Pawlak and prof. Michaª Szurek. Their talks are presented in an extended version, in order for the authors to better present their ideas. To these talks we attach the comments of two discussion participants: Dr. Konstantinos Tatsis from University of Ioannina, Greece and Dr. Jacek Dymel from Vth secondary school (Lyceum) in Cracow.
We hope that the presentation of these talks can be a platform for the confrontation of various points of view regarding the issues raised during the panel. They are related to both teacher education and mathematics teaching at various educational levels. We hope that it will open the eld for further discussions between Polish mathematicians interested in educational matters and mathematics educators.
Editorial Board of Didactica Mathematicae
