Publication ethics and publication malpractice statement

The Proceedings are published according to the publication ethics and publication malpractice standards of the COPE – the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers,  and relevant regulations of the University of Latvia. The editors evaluate submitted articles on the basis of their relevance to the conference scope and traditions, their academic and professional merit. The editors will not disclose any information about submitted articles to anyone other than the authors or persons directly involved in the publishing process. The editors will not use unpublished information contained in a submitted article for their own purposes. Privileged information or ideas obtained by editors as a result of considering an article for publication will be kept confidential and not used for their advantage. Editors will abstain from considering articles in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from collaborative, institutional, competitive or other relationships/connections with any of the authors or institutions connected to the articles, in such cases they will ask another experts to handle the article. The Proceedings are  peer-reviewed. Each submitted article is peer-reviewed by at least two editors or recognized experts in mathematics education. The final decision regarding any article is taken by the Editor-in-Chief based on the importance of the work presented in the article to researchers and readers, the reviewers' comments, and  legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.