Seventeenth Annual Summer Meeting

1957 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 410-411

Contemporary mathematics, new trends in mathematics education, and current problems of teaching mathematics will be highlighted at the 1957 Summer Meeting of The rational Council of Teachers of Mathematics at Carleton College. Outstanding leaders in mathematics and education from all parts of the U.S. will participate in the meetings. Mathematics teachers wilt share their successful techniques at the many sessions on current teaching problems.

1995 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Larry E. Askins

As mathematics teachers, we are eager for an optimistic view of what our classrooms can become during this decade and beyond. I believe that NCTM's Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics (1991) and Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989) present a clear vision for making mathematics education successful in the 1990s. However, the documents mean nothing if individual teachers fail to take deliberate steps toward realizing that vision.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Gülçin Oflaz ◽  
Kübra Polat ◽  
Duygu Altaylı Özgül ◽  
Mario Alcaide ◽  
José Carrillo

It is of critical importance, in particular, for mathematics teachers who will teach future generations to understand and do mathematical proofs. It is important to determine future teachers' beliefs about and difficulties with proofs because their knowledge of this issue affects their teaching. This study aims to determine and compare the proof schemes of prospective mathematics teachers from two state universities, one in Turkey and the other in Spain. The case study was conducted within this study. The participants were 51 prospective teachers at their second year from the department of teaching mathematics education at Huelva University in Spain and 45 prospective teachers from the department of teaching mathematics education at Cumhuriyet University in Turkey. The Proof Test consisted of four questions about proofs for parallelograms. Semi-structured interviews were subsequently conducted to investigate the prospective teachers’ responses in-depth. The findings suggest that prospective teachers from Turkey and Spain indicated affinity in proving. The majority of the prospective mathematics teachers were either unable to complete the proof or completed the proof in an inaccurate way.


2014 ◽  
Vol 107 (9) ◽  
pp. 687

Today's students live in a world of computers, tablets, smartphones, and cloud computing. The pace of innovation continues to accelerate. How can mathematics teachers capitalize on these trends for the good of our students? The Editorial Panel of Mathematics Teacher invites teachers, teacher educators, education researchers, and others to share their experiences in online mathematics education. Submissions that highlight how online technologies can support NCTM's Equity Principle are especially encouraged. In some cases, print alone will not adequately capture the total impact of the article; in such cases, having active links or other dynamic resources will be optimal.


1990 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Franklin Demana ◽  
Bert K. Waits

Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1989) assumes that in grades 9–12 all students will have access to graphing calculators, that every mathematics classroom will have a demonstration computer available at all times, and that all students will have the opportunity to use computers in mathematics. Teachers must start now to implement the many technologies currently available and prepare for the explosion of technology to come in this decade. In this article we address some questions about technology that are sure to arise as we begin to implement the spirit and vision of the Standards. Our examples are drawn primarily from the use of graphing calculators in advanced algebra and beyond, but the questions are typical of those that arise with other technologies and other mathematical content.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-396
Author(s):  
Zakaria Ndemo

Intending to improve the teaching and learning of the notion of mathematical proof this study seeks to uncover the kinds of flaws in postgraduate mathematics education student teachers. Twenty-three student teachers responded to a proof task involving the concepts of transposition and multiplication of matrices. Analytic induction strategy that drew ideas from the literature on evaluating students’ proof understanding and Yang and Lin’s model of proof comprehension applied to informants’ written responses to detect the kinds of flaws in postgraduates’ proof attempts. The study revealed that the use of empirical verifications was dominant and in situations. Whereby participants attempted to argue using arbitrary mathematical objects, the cases considered did not represent the most general case. Flawed conceptualizations uncovered by this study can contribute to efforts directed towards fostering strong subject content command among school mathematics teachers.


Author(s):  
Kaique Nascimento Martins ◽  
Jamille Vilas Bôas

ResumoO presente estudo é uma pesquisa bibliográfica inspirada no Estado do Conhecimento, tendo como objetivo compreender focos temáticos nas produções acadêmicas que utilizam/abordam o ensino de matemática através da resolução de problemas. Para tanto, realizou-se um mapeamento das produções acadêmicas publicadas nos periódicos: BOLEMA, Boletim GEPEM, Zetetiké, Educação Matemática em Revista e Educação Matemática Pesquisa, entre janeiro de 2011 e junho de 2019. De um modo geral, percebemos uma variedade de estudos contendo diferentes perspectivas discutidas e abordadas tanto na educação básica quanto no ensino superior.  A partir deste trabalho, é possível ampliar o entendimento sobre a temática, fortalecendo a ideia de que esta pode potencializar o processo de ensino e aprendizagem de matemática.Palavras-chave: Resolução de problemas, Mapeamento, Educação matemática.AbstractThe present study is a bibliographic research inspired by the state of knowledge, aiming to understand thematic focuses on academic productions that use/approach teaching mathematics through problem-solving. For this purpose, we mapped the academic productions published in journals: BOLEMA, Boletim GEPEM, Zetetiké, Educação Matemática em Revista, and Educação Matemática Pesquisa, published between January 2011 and June 2019. We noticed a variety of studies containing different perspectives discussed and addressed both in basic and university education. From this work, it is possible to broaden the understanding of the theme, strengthening the idea that it can enhance the mathematics teaching and learning process.Keywords: Problem solving, Mapping, Mathematics education. ResumenEl presente estudio es una investigación bibliográfica inspirada en el estado del conocimiento, con el objetivo de comprender enfoques temáticos sobre producciones académicas que utilizan/abordan la enseñanza de las matemáticas a través de la resolución de problemas. Para ello, mapeamos las producciones académicas publicadas en las revistas: BOLEMA, Boletim GEPEM, Zetetiké, Educação Matemática em Revista y Educação Matemática Pesquisa, publicadas entre enero de 2011 y junio de 2019. Notamos una variedad de estudios que contienen diferentes perspectivas discutidas y abordadas tanto en educación básica como en educación universitaria. A partir de este trabajo, es posible ampliar la comprensión del tema, fortaleciendo la idea de que puede potenciar el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de las matemáticas.Palabras clave: Resolución de problemas, Mapeo, Educación matemática.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
Lucas Silva Pires ◽  
Iran Abreu Mendes

Resumo: Neste artigo apresentamos os resultados de uma pesquisa sobre os livros de minicursos de história da matemática publicados pela Sociedade Brasileira de História da Matemática no período de 2001 e 2017, cujos conteúdos matemáticos foram destinados aos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental. Nosso objetivo foi identificar e caracterizar as sugestões propostas nesses livros para as ações didáticas do professor de Matemática desse nível escolar. Para operacionalização da pesquisa, inicialmente realizamos um levantamento dos livros de minicursos classificando-os em três tendências de pesquisa em História da Matemática, para selecionar somente aqueles voltados à história para o ensino da matemática. Em seguida identificamos e caracterizamos os livros com conteúdos dos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental. Os resultados apontaram que, dos 101 livros de minicursos, 21,78% propõem abordagens centradas em conteúdos relativos ao Ensino Fundamental dos anos finais que podem ser utilizadas com vistas a facilitar as organizações e ações didáticas do professor nas suas aulas de matemática.Palavras-chave: Livros de minicursos; História para o ensino da matemática; Anos Finais; Ensino Fundamental. Abstract: In this article we present the results of a research on the Mathematics History short-course books published by the Brazilian Society of Mathematics History from 2001 to 2017 whose contents were aimed at Middle School grades. Our objective was to identify and characterize the suggestions proposed in these books for the didactic actions of Mathematics teachers at this school level. To operate the research, we carried out, at first, a survey of the short-course books, sorting them into three research tendencies in Mathematics History, in order to select only those that dealt with History for teaching Mathematics. Then we identified and characterized the books which included contents for Middle School. The results indicated that, from the 101 short-course books, 21,78% propose approaches centered around contents pertaining to Middle School which can be used to facilitate the teacher's organization and didactic actions in their Mathematics classes.Keywords: Short-course books; History for teaching Mathematics; Middle School; Basic education.


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