The Research Symposium 2010

Symposium Talks & Workshop

AMATYC’s newest academic committee, Research in Mathematics Education in Two-Year Colleges (RMETYC), is pleased to present this year’s symposium. The symposium begins Thursday, Nov 11th with two sessions, Research as Faculty Development by Patrick W. Thompson, Professor of Mathematics at Arizona State University, from 12:30-1:20pm and Research on Students’ Reasoning and Sense-Making by J. Michael Shaughnessy, President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) from 1:40-2:30pm. The sessions will be followed on Friday, Nov 12th from 10:30-12:30pm by Investigating Teaching Practices Through Systematic Inquiry, a workshop in which Thompson and Shaughnessy will join Vilma Mesa, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Michigan, and April Ström, Chair of the RMETYC Committee and Mathematics Faculty at Scottsdale CC, to extend the ideas presented in Thursday’s symposium sessions. Link to complete article

Symposium: Research as Faculty Development

Research in mathematics education is a pragmatic activity—improving students’ mathematical learning and improving the mathematics that they learn. When community college faculty investigate their students’ mathematical realities and the sense students make of instruction, research then becomes a vehicle for continual personal development that also contributes to the community’s development. Link to complete article