![[Ed Barbeau]](barbeau.jpg)
Office: Bahen Centre/BA 6176
Email: barbeau@math.toronto.edu
Phone: (416) 653-1961
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Ed Barbeau is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toronto. He was born in Toronto and received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto before going to the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to gain his PhD with a thesis on functional analysis written under the supervision of F.F. Bonsall. After being assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, ON for two years and a NATO research fellow at Yale University in New Haven, CT for one year, he accepted an appointment at the University of Toronto, where he has remained.
Dr. Barbeau is a life member of the Mathematical Association of America, the American Mathematical Society and the Canadian Mathematical Society, and has served all three societies on various committees, particularly having to do with mathematics education. He has published a number of books directed to students of mathematics and their teachers, including Polynomials (Springer), Power Play (MAA), Fallacies, Flaws and Flimflam (MAA) and After Math (Wall & Emerson, Toronto), has frequently given talks and workshops at professional meetings and in schools, has worked with high school students preparing for Olympiad competitions and has on five occasions accompanied the Canadian team to the International Mathematical Olympiad. He is currently associate editor in charge of the Fallacies, Flaws and Flimflam column in the College Mathematics Journal and education editor for the Notes of the Canadian Mathematical Society. He is a former chairman of the Education Committee of the Canadian Mathematical Society.
His honours include the Fellowship of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the David Hilbert Award from the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions and the Adrien Pouliot Award from the Canadian Mathematical Society.
The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) has commissioned a study on {\bf Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom}, whose main event will be a Study Conference from June 27 to July 3, 2006 at Trondheim, Norway with invited participants. The scope of this study will be wide. It will look at, for instance, the impact of mathematical challenges both inside and outside of the classroom, the role of mathematical challengies in supporting the curriculum for students of all levels of ability, vehicles for propagating mathematical challenges and assessment of their effectiveness. We would like to emphasize that we are interested in students and activities of all type, and want to go far beyond contests for talented students.
A discussion document has been prepared by an international committee chaired by Ed Barbeau of the University of Toronto (barbeau@math.utoronto.ca) and Peter Taylor of the University of Canberra in Australia who is the executive-director of the Australian Mathematical Trust (pjt@olympiad.org). This document defines terms, describes issues, provides sample situations, and poses questions for discussion.
A copy of the discussion document can be obtained by going to the website www.amt.canberra.edu.au, clicking on ``LINKS'' and then on ``ICMI Study 16''. You can go directly to the prefatory page for the Study by going to www.amt.canberra.edu.au/icmis16.html. The English version is found at http://www.amt.canberra.edu.au/icmis16dd.html. There are also version in French (icmis16ddfrench) and Spanish (icmis16ddddspanish).
I am grateful to M. Jean-David Houle for providing French translations for the Tips for Writing up Solutions and for recent Olymon problem sets.