Mathematicians Writing for Educators: Collaboration Accross Disciplines
Critical Issues in Education: Teaching Teachers Mathematics
May 31, 2007 10:00 AM to 12:10 PM
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This project involves mathematicians writing essays about mathematics for preservice and inservice
professional development. Mathematicians and educators work jointly at writing conferences where
mathematicians draft essays and receive immediate critique and feedback from classroom teachers and other
educators. In an effort to learn more about what each community can offer the other in discussions of the
teaching and learning of mathematics, the two communities consider together videotaped examples of students
working on mathematics in classrooms. In two related MSRI workshop sessions, participants will hear about
the project from a panel of mathematicians and educators, engage in thinking together about a video clip of a
classroom, and then read and consider two essays written for teachers by mathematicians, each paired with a
learning episode from an elementary classroom. Participants will read these brief essays between the Thursday
and Friday sessions in order to be prepared to engage in the discussion on Friday. Note that the two sessions
build on each other. We strongly encourage participants to commit to attending both sessions. |
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Lecture #13498
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