We are pleased to announce the launch of a new issue of the International Journal for Studies in Mathematics Education- IJSME (JIEEM).

The IJSME is an open journal in the field of mathematics education. Our aim is to publish articles regarding a variety of themes that could reflect different research approaches within the field.

In order to accentuate a wide-ranging of research papers, and to reach as many researchers as possible, we accept for submission articles in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

This journal is a semi-annual and peer-reviewed professional academic research journal. Two reviewers evaluate submitted articles before publishing.

All numbers are on line at  http://periodicos.uniban.br/index.php/JIEEM/index

Vol. 5, No 1 (2012)

Summary http://periodicos.uniban.br/index.php/JIEEM/issue/view/38

Editorial

       Rosana Nogueira de Lima and Janete Bolite Frant

THEORIE DE L'ACTIVITE ET DIDACTIQUE, POUR L'ANALYSE CONJOINTE DES ACTIVITES DE L'ENSEIGNANT ET DE L'ELEVE

       Janine Rogalski

ARITHMETIC WORD PROBLEMS AND ALGEBRA WORD PROBLEMS

       Pedro Franco de Sá and John Andrew Fossa

IMPLICAÇÕES E APLICAÇÕES DA TEORIA DAS REPRESENTAÇÕES SEMIÓTICAS NO ENSINO DO CÁLCULO

       Regis Vieira Francisco

STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS GEOMETRY: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

       Yüksel Dede

SUPPORTING MEANINGFUL INITIAL LEARNING OF THE ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTY: CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN TEXTBOOK PRESENTATIONS

       Meixia Ding

UNA PROPUESTA PARA LA INTRODUCCIÓN DE LAS CONCEPCIONES SUBJETIVA Y AXIOMÁTICA DE LA PROBABILIDAD EN LA UNIVERSIDAD

       José Ignacio Barragués Fuentes, Jenaro Guisasola Aranzabal