- APStatistics Dissertation - Kim Robinson, Clayton College & State University
A qualitative research study focused on students' learning and their performance on the Advanced Placement Exam with respect to concept-oriented instruction as recommended by the AP Statistics Test Development Committee. Organized into chapters, including
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- Autonomy, Interaction and Knowledge-Building as Bases for Learning at and with the Math Forum [Word document] - K. Ann Renninger and Wes Shumar
From the book proposal page for the book Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning, edited by Barab, Grey, and Kling. Cambridge, MA:
Cambridge University Press.
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- The Benezet Centre - Richard Hake & Sanjoy Mahajan
In 1929, Louis Benezet tried an experiment, "abandoning all formal instruction in arithmetic below the seventh grade and concentrating on teaching the children to read, to reason, and to recite." The experiment was successful; this site includes Benezet's
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- California Mathematics Council (CMC)
A professional organization of educators dedicated to improving classroom instruction in mathematics at all levels. Goals: to foster excellence in school mathematics curricula and instructional programs, including assessment and evaluation; to promote
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- CAUSEweb - Dennis K. Pearl, Director
The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE) collects, reviews, develops, and disseminates resources for members of the undergraduate statistics education community. Resources include lesson modules for lecturers; computer
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- Center for Complex Systems Research - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A research group studying the phenomena of systems with a large flow, such as turbulence and information flow on the Internet. Includes an outline of current research projects and outreach programs (can researchers "resonate" with at-risk kids?).
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- The Center for Talented Youth (CTY) - The Johns Hopkins University
A university-based initiative that promotes the academic experience of children with "extraordinary mathematical ability" worldwide. Links include opportunities for homeschoolers, summer and academic year educational opportunities, distance learning,
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- Center for the Development of Teaching (CDT) - Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
A research and development center whose goal is to learn how teachers' practice can be transformed to support students' construction of knowledge. Currently focusing on mathematics and science teaching, the Center carries out research and action projects
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- Changing the Way We Teach Math - Kate Nonesuch
This document is a manual for teaching basic math to adults. It sets out some "best practices" from the literature, then outlines some difficulties instructors may face in implementing them, and makes suggestions for overcoming those difficulties. There
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- Chris Fenwick's mathematics education (self-organised reading-to-learn) research and teaching page - Chris Fenwick
Research material on mathematics education, from the perspective of a teacher of A-level mathematics students.
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- Classroom Conversation (Learning and Mathematics) - Nicholls, Hazzard; Math Forum
In their 1993 book Education as Adventure, John Nicholls and Susan Hazzard explore students' understandings of the nature and point of school learning and the idea that students are valuable critics of the classroom curriculum and their own learning.
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- A comprehension tool for mathematics?: the Math Forum @ Drexel's Online Mentoring Guide - Renninger, Ray, Luft, and Newton
Two studies of the Math Forum's Online Mentoring Guide (OMG) address whether and how online comprehension tools might support mathematics learning. In Study 1, the culture of the preservice teachers' (PTs') mathematics classroom and their work with the
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- Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences (CBMS)
The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences is an umbrella organization consisting of sixteen professional societies all of which have as one of their primary objectives the increase or diffusion of knowledge in one or more of the mathematical sciences.
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- Course Materials Online - College of Education, San Diego State University
Courses online in Administration, Rehabilitation and Postsecondary Education; Education; Educational Technology, including multimedia development and distance education. Also humanistic and social aspects of teaching, from the School of Teacher Education.
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- Cross-Age Tutoring - Marah Fortson; Math Forum
An annotated bibliography: articles to help teachers deal with a classroom of learners with different abilities, different strengths and weaknesses, who are at different levels academically, behaviorally, and socially. The task of the teacher is a challenge,
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- CRUME'S First Volume - What Will Mathematicians Think? - Research Sampler: John and Annie Selden, Eds.
A description of the first volume of Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education, first in a series of annual volumes (CMBS Issues in Mathematics Education, Vol. 4, 1994), in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Trends, January 1995.
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- Departamento de Didáctica de la Matemática - Universidad de Granada
The University of Granada's Department of Mathematics Instruction features research groups, each with bibliographies of downloadable publications and other resources, on numerical thinking (pensamiento numérico), statistics education (educación
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- Department of Science & Mathematics Education: Research and Development - Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Read faculty research and learn about their projects and interests: children's understanding of statistical and probabilistic concepts; the negotiation of meaning in mathematics & science classrooms (The Classroom Project); the expression of algorithms
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- Developing and Probing Understanding in Mathematics / Improving Geometry Teaching: Dhulikhel Experience - Bal Chandra Luitel
Two papers: one discusses understanding in mathematics, its development and assessment; the other describes a project to improve mathematics teaching and learning in a municipality of Nepal.
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- Doctoral Program in Mathematics and Science Education - UCSD and SDSU
A joint program at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. The program addresses issues of what and how students learn when studying mathematical and scientific subjects. Information on the program goal, program structure,
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- The Drills To Play - Cut the Knot!, Alexander Bogomolny
An exploration of a detail found at the beginning of Kurt Godel's biography by John Dawson, how repetition and practice constitute an integral and necessary part of the learning process; that, by implication, one first conceives an idea, then proves it
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- Dynamic Geometry - Goldenberg, Scher; Education Development Center, Inc.
To understand how students construct mathematical ideas in "Dynamic Geometry" environments (tools like Geometer's Sketchpad and Cabri), one needs clear characterizations of the mathematical "raw materials" embodied in the software and how students use
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- Early Algebra, Early Arithmetic - TERC and Tufts University
The Early Algebra Project examines young learners as they express general relationships among numbers and quantities through written notation, tables, and diagrams. Download PDFs of class materials such as lesson plans and student worksheets; discuss
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- Ed Laughbaum, Ohio State University
Research papers include Developmental Algebra with Function as the Underlying Theme; Graphing Technology - Tool of Choice for Teaching Developmental Mathematics; Using Data to Promote Mathematical Understanding; Sharp Corners, Rates of Change, Systems
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- Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) - Stanford University Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Multimedia computer-based courses in a variety of subjects, including mathematics and physics, for bright students of all grades, offered through the Stanford Continuing Studies Program. EPGY also researches computer-based distance learning instruction
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- ELECTRONIC GENIE: Will Computers Serve Schools – or Run Them? - Samuel G. Sava
This 1997 speech by Samuel G. Sava, Executive Director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, examines the results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and contrasts the lackluster performance of American
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- Encouraging Mathematical Thinking, Discourse around a Rich Problem - Math Forum: Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP)
This videopaper by the Math Forum's Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP) of teacher practitioners and Math Forum Staff opens a conversation around the use of discourse as a basis for encouraging students' mathematical thinking and supporting teachers'
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- ERIC Digests - Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Digests are short reports on topics of prime current interest in education, targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community. Each offers an overview of
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- Ethnography at the Math Forum [PDF file] - Wesley Shumar
A discussion of the author's research on teacher communities, networking, and professional development online through the Math Forum, and techniques used to study them.
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- Evaluating Long-Term Student Effects and Teacher Inservice Needs for Dissemination of the Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP) - Norman Webb
Abstract of a report to the NSF by Norman Webb. The IMP curriculum integrates the four years of mathematics traditionally presented as separate courses in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and precalculus, and exposes students to concepts derived from
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- Gateways to Advanced Mathematical Thinking (GAMT) - Michelle Manes; Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
The goal of this project is to research the ways in which high school and college mathematics students come to acquire flexible understandings of essential concepts needed for analytic and algebraic thinking. Integral to this research effort is the development
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- Getsmarter.org - Council on Competitiveness
An animated and interactive testing and learning site. "The Real Challenge" is a timed test, in either math or science at various grade levels, comparable to that used in the Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS). After completing the assessment,
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- Horizon Research, Inc.
A private research firm located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that specializes in work related to science and mathematics education. Recent project include Looking Inside the Classroom, A Study of K-12 Mathematics and Science Education in the United
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- How-to Series - ERIC/AE; Bruce Thompson, Texas A&M Univ.
This is a set of on-line, full-text books and booklets addressing practical evaluation, research, measurement, and statistical issues. The series started as a joint project of ERIC/AE and Bruce Thompson, Texas A&M University. We have since added other
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- The impact of dynamic geometry software on learning - Bryan Dye; MathsNet
A paper that aims to measure the impact of use of dynamic geometry software on learning via the Internet; to compare various software packages, for example: Geometer's sketchpad, Cinderella, and Cabri-Geometre; and to measure the impact of "home learning"
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- The Impact of the Math Forum's Problem(s) of the Week on Students' Mathematical Thinking - K. Ann Renninger, Laura Farra, and Claire Feldman-Riordan
Article in PDF format. Presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2000.
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- Impressions from ICME-9 - Cut the Knot!, Alexander Bogomolny
Statistics on attendance (by country) at the International Congress on Mathematics Education held in Tokyo, Japan in August, and impressions of talks on the state of mathematics education in the year 2000. According to Mogens Niss (Denmark) who gave the
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- Improving Measurement and Geometry in Elementary Schools (IMAGES) - Research for Better Schools (RBS)
Information and resources designed to help teachers develop a deeper understanding of geometry and measurement concepts and to assist in designing meaningful instruction for elementary students. Topics addressed include: cognitive and developmental issues;
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- Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) - Education Development Center, Inc.
The ITEST program funds projects that provide opportunities for both school-age children and teachers to build the skills and knowledge needed to advance their study and to function and contribute in a technologically rich society. The ITEST program also
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- Institute for Mathematics and Science Education
The Institute for Mathematics and Science Education (IMSE) promotes efforts at the University of Illinois at Chicago to improve precollege and undergraduate education in math and science. Read about the development of curricula such as Math Trailblazers,
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- Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy (ISAL) - Penn State University, College of Education
ISAL stresses the importance of connecting research to improving practice. Resources include software, publications, consulting services, and Web links.
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- Integrating Mathematics and Methods - Beal, Klespis; Math Forum
An integrated mathematics content and methods course taught at St. Xavier University for preservice elementary school teachers. Integration is accomplished by presenting the material in a problem-solving format in a laboratory context, with students working
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- The Interactive Mathematics Program: A Report - Mark Freitag, Univ. of Georgia
The Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP, 1994) is a project designed to implement change in the high school mathematics curriculum. This paper describes how the project began, what it intends to do, and what pedagogical problems it addresses. A specific
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- International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning - Kluwer
A journal for papers not solely about computers; the mathematics discussed are not limited by current boundaries of the discipline or by current conceptions of the curriculum. The journal redefines mathematics learning and teaching, increasing connections
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- The International Study Center - Boston College
Dedicated to conducting comparative studies in educational achievement. Principally, it serves as the International Study Center for IEA's studies in math, science, and reading--the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the
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- Johnny might not be math-challenged - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
His problem could just be that he's an auditory learner. An essay on learning styles and how they affect mathematics learning.
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- K-12 Multimedia Math Education - Sparkle Productions
Software and research: reports and articles are available, with print and web references and resources, in the Motivation and Learning Center, which provides suggestions for parents on increasing their child's intrinsic desire to learn. Their math materials
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- Lectures (TEECH, TERC) - Teacher Enhancement Electronic Community Hall
Transcripts of lectures by members of the teacher enhancement community, including such broad topics as systemic reform, electronic communities, professional development, standards, evaluation, TIMSS, etc.
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- Lesson Lab Research Institute
The independent research arm of Achievement Solutions at Pearson, with a mission of improving teaching and learning in K-12 classrooms. Government agencies, foundations, and internal funding support their research efforts. LLRI has become a hub for a
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- Lesson Study: A PCMI Experience - Tony Anderson, Jennifer Kumi Burkett, Gail Burrill, Joyce Frost, Jerry Gribble, Jill Ryerson, and Celeste Williams
An article written by the Japanese Lesson Study group from the 2003 Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) about their experience developing the lesson, "Studying Dimensionality Through a Stair-Step Fractal." With an explanation of the Japanese lesson
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