You are cordially invited to the 30th Annual National Congress of the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa (AMESA) and submit contributions on the theme:
Envisioning Equitable Mathematics Education: Promoting Relevance and Engagement

VENUE

University of Limpopo
Turfloop Campus
University Road
Mankweng
Polokwane
0727 Limpopo

DATE

30 June – 04 July 2025

CONGRESS THEME

Envisioning Equitable Mathematics Education: Promoting relevance and engagement
Mathematics serves as a gateway to majority careers, especially in Natural Sciences, Engineering, Technology and Accountancy. Access and acquittance in these fields rely on competence in both basic and advanced mathematical skills and knowledge. However, focus is on quantitative Grades and marks which disregard learners’ qualitative skills, knowledge, interests, needs and attitudes. The necessity for teaching, learning and assessment in mathematics education that is relevant to the needs of learners is continuously disregarded irrespective of past and recent reforms. Hence the obvious need for collaboration and engagement of all stakeholders in decisions of mathematics education. Equitable mathematics education emanates from various inequities and invokes various notions, such as access, achievement, identity, power, marginalisation, redistribution, patriarchy, decolonialisation and social justice.

CONGRESS 2025 SUB-THEMES

• Engagement on access and marginalisation of teaching, learning and assessment in Mathematics Education.
• Equitable teaching and learning of Mathematics Education for relevance in learner identity and power.
• Promoting social justice in the provision of relevant quality Mathematics Education in a decolonialised society.
• Marginalisation and redistribution of resources to promote relevant and equitable Mathematics Education.

CALL FOR PAPERS

You are invited to propose one or more contributions to the academic programme. Please note: to ensure a high standard of presentations and broad-based participation:

• We will accept no more than two inputs per presenter.
• We will not accept any presentation for the programme unless a full transcript or workshop outline has been submitted for reviewing.
• We will adhere to the due dates for submission as this ensures time for useful and relevant reviews of submissions.
• Only the names of those who paid their registration fees, will be included in the congress programme.

To help you in planning and writing your proposal, we include overleaf technical guidelines for preparing a paper. An electronic styles template is available on the congress’s website.

The presentation proposal form (page 14) must be submitted with your proposal to the Congress Academic Coordinator by 27 March 2025.

CALL FOR REVIEWERS

In order to have a sufficient number of reviewers for submitted papers, we invite AMESA members to volunteer to help with reviewing papers. This review process should take place during March, April and May 2025. You can serve as reviewer if you are a current AMESA member and have presented a reviewed paper (a Long or Short Paper) at previous AMESA congresses or have published in Pythagoras or another reviewed journal. If you qualify and are willing, please fill in the reviewer’s form (page 15) and send it to the Congress Academic Coordinator by 27 February 2025.

MATHS MARKET

Publishers, entrepreneurs and NGOs are invited to present and promote their commercial products in a special session in the programme called a Maths Market presentation. Research about such products may be presented as an academic paper which will be reviewed, but commercial products should not be directly promoted in academic sessions. Maths Market presentations are not reviewed and not published in the Congress Proceedings. Please contact the Secretariat for more details.

Note: The Final Announcement and Registration Form will be issued in February 2025 and will contain full details about the programme, plenary speakers, congress costs, transport, etc.