Le cycle de conférences Agir pour l’Education 2025

Membre du programme « Agir pour l’Education » du Collège de France, Excello participe à l’organisation 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 ». 

Programme du cycle : 

Each conference takes place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (11, Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris), followed by a Q&A session.

The talks will be held in the Marguerite de Navarre Amphitheater, except for the May 21 session, which will move to the Maurice Halbwachs Amphitheater. 

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 (Professeur au Collège de France), Akim Viennet (Directeur de MathAData) et Miguel Toquet (IA-IPR de mathématiques sur l’académie de Lille) – « Enseigner l’intuition et l’abstraction mathématique au Lycée avec des challenges d’IA ».

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Pierre-Michel Menger, professeur au Collège de France – “Développer la culture de l’effort. Compétition et concours en mathématiques.”

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.” 

All sessions will be livestreamed on the Collège de France Foundation YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/FondationduCollgedeFrance/streams 

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