{"id":7475,"date":"2012-07-30T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2012-07-30T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T22:00:28","slug":"soifer-elected-president-of-world-federation-of-national-mathematics-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=7475","title":{"rendered":"Soifer elected president of World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Soifer, professor, Interdepartmental Studies, was elected president of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions during the 12<sup>th<\/sup> International Congress of Mathematical Education July 8-15 in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The congress drew more than 3,500 delegates from more than 100 countries.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his election, Soifer made five presentations. They were: \u201cWhat \u2018Problem Solving\u2019 Ought to Mean and How Combinatorial Geometry Answers this Question: Divertismento in Nine Movements\u201d (plenary talk), \u201cThe Goal of Mathematics Education, Including Competitions Is to Let Student Touch \u2018Real\u2019 Mathematics: We Ought to Build that Bridge,\u201d \u201cCombinatorial Geometry Offers Gifted Students a Field for Doing Research: Concerto in Four Movements,\u201d \u201cSome of My Favorite Problems of Combinatorial Geometry, Solved and Unsolved: What Can Be Offered in Classroom,\u201d and \u201cHow Creating Problems for the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: An Etude in Four Movements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Alexander Soifer, professor, Interdepartmental Studies, was elected president of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions during the 12th International Congress of Mathematical Education July 8-15 in Seoul, South Korea. The congress drew more than <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=7475\" title=\"Soifer elected president of World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kudos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-1Wz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7476,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions\/7476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}