Mathematics Education Prospective Teachers’ Errors Patterns on Grade 12 Mathematics

What ain’t mathematics education?!

Abstract: In 1996 at the first Iranian Mathematics Education Conference (IMEC1) that was held in Isfahan. I obliged myself as a mathematics educator, to inform the mathematics community at large by presenting a paper entitled “what is mathematics education?” to pave the way for the establishment of the master program of mathematics education in Iran. Now, after 16 years, we need to reflect on t...

The Mis-Education of Mathematics Teachers

I f we want to produce good French teachers in schools, should we require them to learn Latin in college but not French? After all, Latin is the mother language of French and is linguistically more complex than French; by mastering a more complex language teachers could enhance their understanding of the French they already know from their school days. To correlate their knowledge of French wit...

Prospective Mathematics Teachers' Technology-Based Presentations on Proportional Reasoning

This study investigated future teachers’ use of technology in teaching proportional reasoning lessons in a senior-level college seminar. Seminar participants were preparing to teach mathematics at an elementary, middle, or secondary school, and the technology-based lesson was a capstone experience wherein they were to demonstrate proportional reasoning concepts or principles that were appropria...

Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematics Education, and Philosophy of Mathematics Education

Mathematics, Mathematicians, and Mathematics Education

I am one of a growing number of research mathematicians who are substantially engaged with school mathematics education. Such outreach has a long and honorable tradition. In this lecture, I illustrate some of the ways that I think this can be helpful, and even essential. Upon his retirement in 1990 as president of the ICMI, Jean Pierre Kahane spoke perceptively of the intimate connection betwee...