The purpose of this conference sponsored by the French Commission of the Methods of Teaching was to give deep reflection as to the place of algorithms in the teaching curriculum and learning of mathematics. Devoted to the concept of new teaching methods at levels 1-4 of compulsory school education, the debates of this seminar were an occasion for…

The proceedings of this conference, which examined the relationship between mathematical programming and the computer, contains the texts of most of the 50 papers presented and a summary of one discussion panel addressing such facets of this theme as the design for, use of, implementation of, and implications for mathematical programming software…