Foreword

This thematic collection represents the eight papers finally selected for publication following submissions invited from the sixteen presentations within Topic Study Group 13: The Teaching and Learning of Calculus at ICME-12, held in Seoul, South Korea from the 8th to the 15th July 2012. The six countries from which these studies are drawn illustrates the international breadth of the audience and discussions in Topic Study Group 13, at which 16 papers and a further 10 posters from a total of 17 countries were presented. The papers presented at the conference came from: Australia, Brazil, China, Iran, Israel, Korea (2 papers), Mexico and Puerto Rico (collaborative study), New Zealand (a paper which reported on contemporary research from a further seven countries presented at the 2011 Delta conference in New Zealand on the teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics and statistics), Spain (2 papers), Uruguay and the USA (4 papers from researchers representing 11 institutions). Original submissions for all 16 papers presented in Topic Study Group 13 are available online in the Pre-Proceedings of ICME-12, http://www.icme12.org/forum/forum.asp. In addition to their work in editing the papers presented here, Martinez-Luaces and Oates would also like to acknowledge the contributions of Sunsook Noh, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea, as co-chair of Topic Study Group 13.