Revoir le cycle de conférences Agir pour l’Education 2025

Membre du programme « Agir pour l’Education » du Collège de France, Excello a participé à la préparation du cycle APE 2025, organisé par les professeurs Stanislas Dehaene, Stéphane Mallat et Pierre-Michel Menger.

About the Conference Series 

“Agir pour l’Éducation” is a collective effort by Collège de France professors to address challenges in the French education system. Their approach is to understand, advise, and act across their various fields of expertise, using open, interdisciplinary scientific methods that engage both education professionals and students.

One of the most pressing issues today is mathematics. Often seen as difficult, math can also be a source of beauty, mystery, and excitement—yet many students lose interest in it. Even more worrying, studies over the past three decades show a steady decline in French students’ math performance, especially in arithmetic and problem-solving. According to the TIMSS survey, France now ranks at the bottom among European countries in math.

C’est dans cette optique qu’en 2025, le Collège de France propose un nouveau cycle de conférences « Agir pour l’éducation » organisé par Stanislas Dehaene, Stéphane Mallat et Pierre-Michel Menger, autour du thème suivant : « Réenchanter les maths à l’école ». 

Revoir les conférences :

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Elizabeth Spelke (Professor of Psychology at Harvard) – “The Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics: Early and Universal Intuitions.”

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Stéphane Mallat (Professor at the Collège de France), Akim Viennet (Director of MathAData), and Miguel Toquet (Regional Math Inspector, Académie de Lille) – “Teaching Mathematical Intuition and Abstraction in High School Through AI Challenges.”

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Pierre-Michel Menger (Professor at the Collège de France) – “Developing a Culture of Effort: Competitions and Contests in Mathematics.”

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 Marie Amalric (Neuroscientist and Junior Professor at Inserm) – “What Changes in the Brain When We Learn Mathematics?”

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Monica Neagoy (PhD in Mathematics Education) – “How to Foster a Love of Mathematics Using the Singapore Method?”

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Naama Friedmann (Professor at Tel Aviv University) – “Difficulties in Numbers and Difficulties in Letters—Do They Necessarily Go Hand in Hand?”

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Emmanuel Sander (Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Geneva) – “What Makes a Math Problem ‘Beautiful’? Reconciling Intuition and Mathematical Insight.” 

For more information, visit: https://www.college-de-france.fr/en/agenda/special-events/re-enchanting-maths-at-school