Changing the culture : mathematics education in the research community
Naomi D. Fisher, Harvey B. Keynes, Philip D. Wagreich, editors.
Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, ©1995.
x, 213 págs. : ilustraciones ; 26 cm.
Serie: Issues in mathematics education ; v. 5
ISBN: 0821803832
"An outgrowth of a series of programs organized by the Mathematicians and Education Reform (MER) Network, between 1990 and 1993, exploring the why and how of the mathematics community's responses to educational challenges."—Foreword.
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Contenido
- Reflections on responses of the mathematics culture to educational challenges: The role of action and of thought in mathematics education: one mathematician's passage / Leon Henkin
- Three mathematical cultures / John T. Baldwin
- When is the best proof not the best proof? / Hugo Rossi
- Can university math people contribute significantly to precollege mathematics education (beyond giving future teachers a few preservice math courses)? / Herb Clemens
- The goldfish route to mathematics education / Pamela A. Ferguson
- The size of a mathematics department / Ronald G. Douglas
- The future of the past / Kenneth C. Millett
- Everybody counts/everybody else / Thomas R. Berger and Harvey B. Keynes.
- Educational journeys within the mathematics culture: Project EXCEL at Rutgers-New Brunswick: instigation and institutionalization / Amy Cohen
- Routes to mathematics for African-American, Latino and Native American students in the 1990s: the educational trajectories of summer mathematics institute participants / Rose Asera and Uri Treisman
- Programs for mathematically talented students- Do we really need them? / Harvey B. Keynes
- The road to reform / Ray Cannon
- Educational change in a research university / William J. Lewis
- Changing institutions / Judith Sunley.