Founded in 1910, APMEP is an association which:

 is voluntary and totally independent of politics and trade unions
 represents mathematics teachers from nursery school to university
 is the only professional organisation for secondary school teachers (11 to 18 years old students)

APMEP is simultaneously concerned with:

 syllabuses contents
 skills required from students
 teaching and training methods
 timetables and class sizes, and especially class splitting
 the harmonisation between key stages
 the improvement of the mathematics status as a training tool rather than a selection tool

APMEP is a place for:

 freedom of speech and the confrontation of ideas
 cooperative approaches to self learning
 proposals for a mathematics teaching policy

APMEP plays a part in:

 defending its positions, particularly about fundamental concerns as those expressed above
 bringing in new tools (calculators, geometry software, calculation software…)
 making developments and team approaches easier (initial and continuing training, maths laboratories…)

APMEP takes action to: preserve, give, or restore:

 a taste for mathematics
 the pleasure of doing it

For APMEP, doing mathematics means:

 identifying and formulating a problem
 testing examples
 conjecturing a result
 collecting proof
 implementing theoretical tools
 checking results and their relevance
 presenting a research, a solution
 simultaneously developing

the individual and collective works of students

the sense of listening and debating

perseverance

imagining skills ,having a critical mind, being consistent and rigorous

Doing mathematics is useful for:

the development of the intellect social and cultural life professional life