Following the Inaugural International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development (ICMT-1) organized by MSHE/SES in 2014, the second conference (ICMT-2) was successfully held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil from 7-11 May 2017. Professor Lianghuo Fan, Head of MSHE, who was also the IPC Chair of ICMT-1, attended the conference hosted by the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro. He delivered two presentations, one entitled “comparing mathematics curriculum and textbooks between China and the UK: findings from the Shanghai Maths Project” (co-authored with Ming Ni, Huiping Xu and Jing Xu of East China Normal University) and the other “An analytical framework for studying the impact of technology on the use of mathematics resources in teaching and learning” (co-authored with Ida Mok of the University of Hong Kong). Prof. Fan also served as Co-Chair of the IPC for ICMT-2 and chaired two sessions during the conference. About the conference, he said, “I am very happy to see the conference was well organised and attracted more than 170 researchers from over 30 countries in different parts of the world”. The third conference, ICMT-3, will be held in 2019 in Paderborn, Germany.

Prof. Fan’s latest publications include “Does a transformation approach improve students’ ability in constructing auxiliary lines for solving geometric problems? An intervention-based study with two Chinese classrooms“.