[RUME] Fwd: Re: ARUME-LIST and Math Ed Readings

[David Smith]

Eric Hsu wrote:

> Here is a post from Andy Bennett that came to me instead of the whole 
> list. Remember, to post to everyone, send e-mail to 
> rume at betterfilecabinet.com.
>
>> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:05:24 -0500 (CDT)
>> From: Andy Bennett <bennett at math.ksu.edu>
>> To: Eric Hsu <erichsu at math.sfsu.edu>
>> Cc: sepp at condor.depaul.edu
>> Subject: Re: ARUME-LIST and Math Ed Readings
>>
>> I do hope Prof. Epp will post a compilation of the suggestions received
>> about essential readings in math ed. I would include chapters from
>> Structure and Insight by Van Hiele, Polya's How to Solve It, 
>> Schoenfeld's
>> Mathematical Problem Solving, Knowing and Teaching Elementary 
>> Mathematics
>> by Liping Ma, perhaps something from Freudenthal's China Lectures, and
>> representative papers (I'm away from my office so I don't have 
>> references)
>> by Dubinsky, Treisman, Ball, and Lampert. I might also include something
>> by Tobias on Math Anxiety. 
>
The work of Sheila Tobias that comes to my mind is called (I think) 
"Stalking the Second Tier: They're Not Dumb, They're Different".  It's 
more about science ed, but the prinicples are the same for math ed.  
Another I have found helpful is "Women's Ways of Knowing" by M. Belenky 
et al.  I have argued elsewhere (see 
http://www.math.duke.edu/~das/essays/) that math ed is not so different 
from ________ ed (fill in the blank) as we sometimes think.  Thus, 
"essential readings" often include research about learning that may not 
be focused specifically on mathematics.

       David

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