Michèle Artigue facts for kids
Michèle Artigue, born in 1946, is a well-known French expert in how mathematics is taught. She is a professor emeritus (a retired professor who keeps her title) at Paris Diderot University. She also used to be the president of a big group called the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction.
Early Life and Schooling
Michèle Artigue was born in 1946 in a small French town called Bordères-sur-l'Échez, located near the Pyrenees mountains. Her mother was a kindergarten teacher. Michèle always loved mathematics.
She went to high school in Tarbes, which was the closest big town. After that, she spent two years in Toulouse preparing for special entrance exams to top French universities, called grandes écoles.
In 1965, she became a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Famous mathematicians like Gustave Choquet, Henri Cartan, and Laurent Schwartz were some of her teachers. In 1967, her son was born, and her mother came to Paris to help care for him. Around this time, Michèle became very interested in model theory, which is a part of mathematical logic.
In 1968, she took part in a student protest that was happening across France. Many students refused to take a part of their final exam, but Michèle still finished her agrégation (a competitive exam for teaching) in 1969.
After this, she studied mathematical logic at the University of Paris. When the university split into several new ones in 1970, she chose to go to Paris Diderot University. She earned her doctorate degree there in 1972.
Her Career
Even while she was still working on her doctorate, Michèle Artigue became a teacher at Paris Diderot University in 1969. Because of the student protests, a new group was started at the university that same year. It was called the Institute of Research in Mathematics Education (IREM).
The director of IREM, André Revuz, invited Michèle to join. By working with this institute, her interests changed from pure logic to focusing on how to teach mathematics better.
Michèle Artigue led IREM from 1985 to 1988. Then, she moved to the University Institute for Teacher Education at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne. There, she became a full professor and led the mathematics department.
In 1999, she returned to Paris Diderot University and became the director of IREM again. She retired in 2010 but kept her title as an emeritus professor. From 2007 to 2010, she also served as the president of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction.
Her Research
Michèle Artigue's early work in mathematics education looked at topics like derivatives and integrals. She also studied how to show mathematical functions using graphs.
Later, she became interested in how educational technology could be used to teach mathematics. She researched how to bring new technologies into math classrooms. Her work also included ideas about teaching methods and theories.
Awards and Honors
Michèle Artigue was invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians twice, once in 1998 and again in 2006. This is a very important event for mathematicians.
In 2012, her friends and colleagues held a special conference in Paris to honor her. A book was published from this conference in 2016, called The Didactics of Mathematics: Approaches and Issues: A Homage to Michèle Artigue.
Michèle Artigue received the Félix Klein medal from the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction in 2013. In 2015, she was given the Luis Santaló Medal by the Inter-American Committee on Mathematics Education. Also in 2015, she became a Knight of the Legion of Honour, which is a very high award in France.
See also
In Spanish: Michèle Artigue para niños
