The Two Days with Mathematic Didactics conference, held on February 17^th and 18^th, gave its participants, mathematics teachers, an opportunity to take a break from their demanding profession and recharge their batteries as they acquired new knowledge from different areas of mathematic didactics, exchanged teaching experience and presented their achievements. After the official programme concluded, the participants had a chance to meet and get to know each other over coffee and tea. The two-day event, now in its 15^th year, was organized by the Department of Mathematics and Mathematic Didactics at the Faculty of Education of Charles University along with the Mathematics Teachers Association of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists.

Doc. RNDr. Naďa Stehlíková, Ph.D., head of the Department of Mathematics and Mathematic Didactics at the Faculty of Education of Charles University, briefly presented the conference programme

Attended by 200 teachers every year, the Two Days with Mathematic Didactics conference is very popular among the scientific public. This year, 180 participants arrived from all around the country. Determined by the participants themselves, the conference programme is bound to be varied and closely linked to teaching experience. Participants were able to present their individual contributions in different sections, run workshops and share their experience as regards teaching materials and aids which have proved useful in the classroom. A video player and a notice board were available for them to present interesting works by pupils and students, as well as a PC and laptop classroom, an interactive whiteboard and voting equipment.

On the first day of the conference, the 6^th year of the children’s coding game Technoplaneta was officially launched, organized by the KAPSA Club under the auspices of the Charles University Faculty of Education. The contest, designed for 5-member teams of primary school children, takes place every spring in the form of several internet rounds. Thirty runner-up teams who do best in the internet part will meet in a Prague finale on June 2, 2011. Last year, a hundred teams from across the Czech Republic and Slovakia took part in the contest and Technoplaneta was honoured as “best accomplishment of the year in education” by Mensa Czech Republic along with the Centre of Giftedness civic association.

 (Marie Kohoutová)

Translation: Pavla Horáková