[RUME] Announcement for RUME sessions at the Joint Meetings

[Keith Weber]

SIGMAA on RUME is sponsoring two Contributed Paper Session at the Joint
 Meetings - Please consider submitting a proposal to one or both of the
 following sessions.

 Proposals due September 16 - for proposal submission see
 http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2110_maacall.html

 MAA CP U1 - MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of
 Undergraduate Mathematics, Tuesday afternoon, organized by Keith Weber,
 Rutgers University; Michelle J. Zandieh, Arizona State University; and Karen
 Marrongelle,Portland State University. Research papers that address issues
 concerning the teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics are
 invited. Appropriate for this session are theoretical or empirical
 investigations conducted within clearly defined theoretical frameworks
 using either qualitative or quantitative methodologies. Of highest
 priority are proposals that report on completed studies that further
 existing work in the field.



 MAA CP H1 - MAA Session on Guided Discovery in Mathematics Education,
 Thursday afternoon, organized by Jerome S. Epstein, Polytechnic University,
 and Chris Rasmussen, San Diego State University. Following on a good session
 on the topic for JMM-2008, we are again soliciting contributions for 2009
 on a topic which we believe to be of central importance for the
 further development of quality programs in mathematics education at all
 levels. We seek papers on: (1) programs with
 more than anecdotal evidence of efficacy, or the lack thereof; (2)
 means of assessment used to determine efficacy of discovery-based
 programs; (3) well thought out papers on the operational meaning of
 terms such as Guided Discovery, and thus on what specific aspects of
 programs actually are responsible for any observed differences in
 outcomes; and/or (4) differences in outcomes in later mathematics
 courses for those in discovery-based programs vs. traditional
 lecture-based. The session is sponsored  by SIGMAA on Research in
 Undergraduate Mathematics Education (SIGMAA on RUME).