POEM 2018

POEM is a conference for researches working in early childhood mathematics education. We are still faced with the key question: In which way – and how much – should children be ‘educated’ in mathematics before entering primary school? In a working atmosphere, focussing on interaction and exchange, we want to address this question together with the participants, in order to start and maintain a research network in early mathematics learning.

After the conference was held in Frankfurt a.M. in 2012, Malmö in 2014, and Karlsruhe in 2016, we now want to invite you to join the 4th POEM conference from May 29th to 30th in Kristiansand, Norway.

PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUESTED TO MAKE THEIR OWN HOTEL RESERVATION. WE HAVE MADE SOME PRE-RESERVATIONS AT THE FOLLOWING HOTELS. PLEASE REFER TO BOOKING CODE AS DESCRIBED UNDER EACH HOTEL.

Scandic Bystranda Hotel, phone +47 21 61 50 00/e-mail: KristiansandBystranda@scandichotels.com - 
price NOK 1310 incl. breakfast (pr/prs/single room)
REFER TO BOOKING CODE BUNI280518_001

Best Western Plus Hotel Norge, phone +47 38 17 40 00/e-mail: firmapost@hotel-norge.no -
price NOK 946 incl. breakfast (pr/prs/single room)
REFER TO BOOKING CODE POEM28052018/478488 WHEN BOOKING ROOM.

Yess! Hotel Kristiansand, phone +47 38 70 15 70/e-mail: kristiansand@yess.no -
price NOK 698 incl. breakfast (pr/prs/single room)
REFER TO BOOKING CODE POEM2018 WHEN BOOKING ROOM.

Most of the participants will arrive Kristiansand at Monday the 28^th of May. For those of you who have signed up for the event “Get together”, it is our pleasure to invite you to an informal gathering at Best Western Plus Hotel Norge, located in the South-West part of Kvadraturen, the city centre of Kristiansand, see red marker below.

The address is Dronningens gate 5.

In this event we will offer you an evening meal.

We meet in the hotel lobby at 20.00 and we anticipate the event to be finished at 22.00. For those of you staying at Scandic hotel Bystranda and Yess! Hotel Kristiansand, you will be picked up at 19.45 in the lobby for a “guided tour” to the Get together event.

From airport to city centre
You have 2 alternatives, by bus or by taxi. By bus you may take Bus nr. 35. It departures from platform B at the Domestic Terminal entrance. You may buy tickets on board the bus with Visa card, the prize is 50 NOK. It is, however, cheaper if you pay tickets in advance through an app, see http://akt.no/english. The app is called ‘AKT Billett’.

The taxis are also located close to platform B at the Domestic Terminal entrance. The prize for taxi is 340 NOK (or 440 NOK in the evening). Make sure that you get the prize ‘Airport express (see http://www.agdertaxi.no/en for more information)

From city centre to campus/venue
From the city centre to the campus, there is an approximately 30 minutes walk. By bus it is a 5-10 minutes ride. We recommend you to take the buses M1, M2 or M3 to get from city centre to campus, see http://akt.no/english for information about tickets. You may buy tickets on board the bus with Visa card, the prize is 50 NOK. It is, however, cheaper if you pay tickets in advance through an app, see http://akt.no/english. The app is called ‘AKT Billett’.

You may order a taxi. We recommend the taxi company called Agder taxi, just call +47 07000.

The conference will be held in room B2 003 at Campus Kristiansand. Parallel sessions will be in B2 003, B2 004 and B2 006.  
All rooms are located at the second floor in the B-building. This is shown as "B" in the map below.
Main entrance is shown as "Hovedinngang".

Deadline for registration for the conference is January 31th 2018. If you would like to contribute to the conference (8-10 pages, 10 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion) please send your paper via email (martin.carlsen at uia.no) until April 30^th 2018. Please use the template available on this conference webpage under the headline “Template”.

Deadline for submitting papers are extended to May 7.

Flight

The quickest way of getting to the university campus in Kristiansand from abroad is to go by plane to Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik. The airport has regular flight connections to Oslo, Copenhagen, Gdansk and Amsterdam, all within 1.5 hour of flight from Kristiansand.

The easiest way of getting from the airport to the city centre/Campus in Kristiansand is by taxi. The ride takes approximately 20 mins and costs about EUR 40. There is no specially scheduled airport bus service at Kjevik, but there are local bus connections which can be used (best for daytime flights).

For more information about transportation from the airport, look here

By bus from Oslo

Long-distance bus. App. 4,5 hours Oslo-Grimstad, 5 hours Oslo-Kristiansand. 
Three bus companies offer transport. 

Konkurrenten bus company - only Norwegian website
Norway Bussexpress - English website
Lavprisekspressen - only Norwegian website

By train from Oslo

NSB - Norwegian Rail 

By Ferry from Hirthals, Denmark:

Fjord Line 

Color Line

The scientific program will start at Tuesday 29^th of May at 09.15 in the B-building. There will be a registration desk in the main entrance hall (C-building). The start of the symposium will take place in the room B2 003.

Click here to download the parallel session schedule (PDF).

Tuesday 29.05
0830-0900 Registration
0915-0930 Welcome (B2 003)
0930-1050 Plenary 1: Professor Maria Bartolini (B2 003)
1050-1115 Break
1115-1200 Parallel 1 (B2 003, B2 004, B2 006)
1210-1310 Lunch ("Kafé Campus, upper floor")
1310-1355 Parallel 2 (B2 003, B2 004, B2 006)
1355-1405 Break
1405-1450 Parallel 3 (B2 003, B2 004, B2 006)
1450-1500 Break
1500-1520 Parallel 4 (B2 003, B2 004, B2 006)
1830- Conference dinner at Boen Gård, http://www.boengaard.no
(Bus departures from Scandic Bystranda Hotel at 18.30 and Best Western Plus Hotel Norge at 18.35. The bus returns at 22.00)

Wednesday 30.05
0915-0945 Welcome
(Presentation of POEM 3 Springer book; Presentation of MatRIC by Professor Simon Goodchild) (B2 003)
0945-1105 Plenary 2: Professor Lieven Verschaffel (B2 003)
1105-1130 Break
1130-1215 Parallel 5 (B2 003, B2 004, B2 006)
1215-1315 Lunch ("Kafé Campus, upper floor")
1315-1435 Plenary 3: Professor Luis Radford (B2 003)
1435-1500 Closing session, Refreshments, Farewell (B2 003)

Link for registration: https://uia.pameldingssystem.no/poem2018

Deadline for registration is January 31th 2018.

Dear POEM-Participants,

If you are preparing a paper for the POEM-2018 conference in May 2018, please use this template. The paper for the conference should be 8-10 pages long (can be extended for the post-conference edited Springer publication).

Please submit your paper to martin.carlsen at uia.no within April 30th. 

Template POEM 2018