Overview
- Broadly examines work in mathematics education undertaken by members of departments of mathematical sciences
- Features more than 20 contributions, along with perspectives on the impacts on students across K-16, as well as on graduate teaching assistants, and on the careers of those doing the work
- Provides both faculty and administrative views of the value of undergraduate mathematics education
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Association for Women in Mathematics Series (AWMS, volume 7)
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Many in the mathematics community in the U.S. are involved in mathematics education in various capacities. This book highlights the breadth of the work in K-16 mathematics education done by members of US departments of mathematical sciences. It contains contributions by mathematicians and mathematics educators who do work in areas such as teacher education, quantitative literacy, informal education, writing and communication, social justice, outreach and mentoring, tactile learning, art and mathematics, ethnomathematics, scholarship of teaching and learning, and mathematics education research. Contributors describe their work, its impact, and how it is perceived and valued. In addition, there is a chapter, co-authored by two mathematicians who have become administrators, on the challenges of supporting, evaluating, and rewarding work in mathematics education in departments of mathematical sciences.
This book is intended to inform the readership of the breadth of the work and to encourage discussion of its value in the mathematical community. The writing is expository, not technical, and should be accessible and informative to a diverse audience. The primary readership includes all those in departments of mathematical sciences in two or four year colleges and universities, and their administrators, as well as graduate students. Researchers in education may also find topics of interest. Other potential readers include those doing work in mathematics education in schools of education, and teachers of secondary or middle school mathematics as well as those involved in their professional development.
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Keywords
- mathematics education
- mentoring
- social justice
- multicultural mathematics
- quantitative literacy
- quantitative reasoning
- writing and communications in mathematics
- scholarship of teaching and learning
- mathematics education research
- teaching, learning and assesment
- tactile learning
- art and mathematics
- ethno-mathematics
- in-service teachers
- pre-service teachers
- technology in mathematics education
- collaboration in mathematics education
Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Benefitting Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers and Graduate Student Instructors
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Front Matter
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Benefitting STEM Majors
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Reviews
“This volume consists of 25 thoughtful papers on mathematics education with the aim of reaching a wide audience. … There are five parts, each described as ‘benefitting’ a particular audience: readers of this book, pre-service and in-service teachers, STEM majors, students in general education courses, and the public and the larger mathematical community.” (Herbert E. Kasube, MAA Reviews, October, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jacqueline M. Dewar is Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Southern California. She received the Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics in 2006.
Pao-sheng Hsu is an independent mathematician and consultant. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Polytechnic University (previously the Polytechnic Institute of New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering). She has served as a reviewer for zbMATH since 2002.
Harriet Pollatsek is Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in the journal Designs, Codes and Cryptography.
Pao-sheng Hsu is an independent mathematician and consultant. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Polytechnic University (previously the Polytechnic Institute of New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering). She has served as a reviewer for zbMATH since 2002.
Harriet Pollatsek is Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in the journal Designs, Codes and Cryptography.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematics Education
Book Subtitle: A Spectrum of Work in Mathematical Sciences Departments
Editors: Jacqueline Dewar, Pao-sheng Hsu, Harriet Pollatsek
Series Title: Association for Women in Mathematics Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44950-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44949-4Published: 21 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83170-1Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44950-0Published: 26 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2364-5733
Series E-ISSN: 2364-5741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 391
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour