Vital Directions for Mathematics Education Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leatham, Keith R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.

What are the most important questions researchers in Mathematics Education should be trying to answer?   What opportunities and challenges face the Mathematics Education community as we seek to answer them?  In this book, some of the most well-respected researchers in the field of Mathematics Educat...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Reflections on a Portrait of our Field
• Making Progress in U.S. Mathematics Education: Lessons Learned—Past, Present and Future
• The Constantly Underestimated Challenge of Improving Mathematics Instruction
• In the Absence of Meaning
• The Need for Theories of Conceptual Learning and Teaching of Mathematics
• Intellectual Need
• The False Dichotomy in Mathematics Education between Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Skills: An Example from Algebra
• Needed: Critical Foxes
• Where are the Foxes in Mathematics Education?.