Resources
Textbooks
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Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
Author: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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Teaching Secondary and Middle School Mathematics
Author: Daniel J. Brahier
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Other readings will be distributed to you in class and will come from:
- Various journal articles in mathematics education
- Mathematics, Pedagogy, and Secondary Teacher Education
Authors: Cooney, Dossey, et al
- The Open-Ended Approach: A New Proposal for Teaching Mathematics
Author: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Implementing Standards-based Mathematics Instruction
Authors: Stein, Smith, Henningsen, and Silver
- The Teaching Gap
Authors: Stigler and Heibert
- Navigations Series in Algebra & Geometry, Grades 6-8, 9-12
Author: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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Resources and Technology
- In this course, we will explore mathematics teaching and learning with a variety of hands-on materials and technology resources. Many of the manipulative resources will be provided to you in class and will be available for temporary check-out for your use in course projects and for use in the field.
- This course will be quite technology-intensive. You should be able to complete many projects to include in your technology portfolio component of the professional teaching standards.
- If you have a Meredith laptop through the Laptop Initiative, then you need to see Tech Services to have the following software packages installed on your computers: Geometer’s Sketchpad, Fathom, Logger Pro 2.1, TI-Interactive, and Excel. Please make sure that you have a Java-enabled Browser available on your laptop computer or home computer as well (Usually this implies Internet Explorer 5.x or greater or Netscape Communicator/Navigator 6.x or greater.).
- If you have your own personal computer (desk or laptop), Technology Services will install the above-listed software on your computers as well.
- In this methods course, you will submit a great deal of your assignments via the web in HTML format. To this end, you need to have access to HTML editing software, such as Netscape Communicator (Composer), Microsoft Front Page, Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver. It is my understanding that most of these software packages are in the computer labs.
- Course Website: The course website is located at the following URL: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/courses/mat764fa02/. We will use this website as a means of submitting assignments and as a point of exploration of web resources and curriculum publishing
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Educational Resources
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Technical Resources
Resources and quotes
- Educating Americans for the 21st Century: http://www.nas.edu/nrc/
(National Science Board, 1983)
(This is...) A Plan of action for improving mathematics, science and technology education for all American elementary and secondary students so that their achievement is the best in the world by 1995
- Goals 2000: http://www.negp.gov/page3-7.htm
- Everybody Counts: http://www.napanet.net/~jlege/allcount.htm
A report to the nation on the future of mathematics education
(Washington, DC: National Research Council/Mathematical Sciences Education Board, 1989)
(from Summary)
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As technology has 'mathematicized' the workplace and as mathematics has permeated society, a complacent America has tolerated underachievement as the norm for mathematics education. We have inherited a mathematics curriculum, conforming to the past, blind to the future, and bound by a tradition of minimum expectations (page 5)
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Everyone depends on the success of mathematics education; everyone is hurt when it fails. Mathematics must become a pump rather than a filter in the pipeline of American education (page 11)
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