Catherine Lanaris

This paper presents the interest of the "instrument al conflict" concept, developed by Marquet (2005), to understand the relationship between didactics and c lassroom management in the training programs of math teachers. It also shows some results of a surv ey, conducted in 2008 among pre-service teachers in the Université du Québec en Outaouais (Canada), revealing a perceived gap between both domains. However, those two domains are closely related duri ng teaching in the classroom. The paper also presents a plan to better understand and improve th e situation. Cooperation between classroom management and didactics specialists is highlighted . Context Didactics and classroom management are two very distinct domains in the teaching of mathematics. Most research in the education field f ocuses on one of these aspects, and not on the relationship between the two. In the university setting, activities offered in the didactics classes are very different from the ones proposed i...