Professors Stanislas Dehaene, Stéphane Mallat and Pierre-Michel Menger are organizing a series of lectures as part of the Agir pour l'éducationinitiative on the subject of mathematics. Notoriously difficult, but also a source of beauty, mystery and enthusiasm, mathematics is losing interest among many students. Even more worrying is the fact that, over the last thirty years or so, surveys have shown a steady decline in student performance, particularly in numeracy and problem-solving, which, according to the TIMSS survey, now places France at the bottom of the European league table.
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