Readings for our February 4 class: Problem-solving, problem-posing and word problems!

Here are our three readings for next week:

1) Alan Schoenfeld (1996, FLM). In Fostering Communities of Inquiry, Must It Matter That the Teacher Knows "The Answer"?

2) Stephen Brown & Marion Walter on problem posing

3) Susan Gerofsky (1996, FLM): A linguistic and narrative view of word problems

SNACKS!!

1. Susan
2. Vanessa and David G.
3. Philipa and Keri
4. Jubilee and Alex
5. Conrad and Murugan
6. Dave H. and...
7. NO FOOD
8. Sophie
9. Alain
10. NO FOOD HERE EITHER
11. Kevin and Shan
12. Total Potluck
13. Total Potluck

Bingjie Wang's MA thesis (2012): Mathematics education journals

Here is a link to Bingjie's very interesting thesis!

It is also available here, at Circle UBC: <https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/38622/ubc_2012_spring_wang_bingjie.pdf?sequence=1>

Readings for our Jan. 21 class with guest speaker Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Michigan State University

Focus for your blog post:
•What questions would/ will you ask the author about the article?
• Identify two or three "stops" in the article, and why they make you stop.

1) "Muddying the clear waters": Teachers' take-up of the linguistic idea of revoicing

2) Strong is the silence: Challenging interlocking systems of privilege and oppression in mathematics teacher education

3) From intended curriculum to written curriculum: 
Examining the "voice" of a mathematics textbook

Readings for our Jan. 28 class: The Psychology of Mathematics Education

Here are our three readings for next week's class, on a view of mathematics education in relationship to psychology:

1) Fischbein (1999). Psychology and mathematics education.

2) Sfard (1991). On the dual nature of mathematical conceptions.

3) Tahta (1993) Review and commentary on Victoire Sur Les Maths

*Note the change to (3) -- I decided to wait till a little later for us to look at Pimm's work.

Wed. Jan. 7 class readings for next class: Is mathematics education a 'field'?

1) Higginson: On the foundations of math education

2) Wheeler, Nesher, Bell, Gattegno: Research program for math education (1)



3) Kilpatrick: Reasonable ineffectiveness of research in math education

Writing responses to articles -- talking back to text

As you read academic books and articles, view videos, films and works of art, hear lectures, etc., it is helpful to engage with these 'texts' in a real or imagined conversation. Thinking and engaging critically doesn't necessarily mean being negative about what you're reading! It just means that you
ask questions, connect your reading to your own knowledge and experiences, think about what is not included or what could have been as well as what is included in the piece, etc.

Some good starting prompts for engaging in a critical dialogue with a text:

• I was surprised by...
• I was excited to read that ....
• I was annoyed to read ...
• I wholeheartedly agreed/ disagreed with the author on this point.... because....
• I wondered why ...
• I would illustrate this piece as follows ... (with a story, a diagram, a drawing, a comic strip, a graph, etc.)
• I could predict .... but not ... in this piece
• If I could talk to the author, I would ask them...
• This relates to my own life/ knowledge/ experiences in this way...
• Something that was not included in this piece was ...
• This piece reminded me of (something else I've seen/ heard/ experienced), in this way...
• If you extended this idea to the limit, it would result in ...
• This fits into the author's other work in this way...
• I see the following influences in this piece: ...
• The author interprets .... in the same (or a very different) way than I would: ...