Math Ed Podcast

Jere Confrey from North Carolina State University discusses her career in mathematics education, including her ideas about children's mathematical thinking, learning progressions, and the Common Core State Standards. Guest host: Kim Morrow Leong

• Jere's Professional Webpage
• Turn on CC Math
• Scaling Up Digital Design Studies (SUDDS)

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This digest episode features the following summaries (timecodes indicated):

• (2:06) Doerr, H. M., DelMas, R., & Makar, K. (2017). A modeling approach to the development of students’ informal inferential reasoning. Statistics Education Research Journal, 16(2), 86–115. Summarized by Jeremy Strayer
• (6:47) Rubel, L. H., Hall-Wieckert, M., & Lim, V. Y. (2017). Making Space for Place: Mapping Tools and Practices to Teach for Spatial Justice. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 26(4), 643-687.Summarized by Chuck Munter. Math for Spatial Justice -- http://www.mathforspatialjustice.org/
• (17:58) Acheson, D. (2017). The Calculus Story: A mathematical adventure. Oxford University Press. Summarized by Sam Otten. David's musical YouTube page -- https://www.youtube.com/user/maths1089

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Jim Hiebert from the University of Delaware discusses his career in mathematics education, from children's mathematical thinking to conceptually-rich teaching to systems of instructional change.

• Jim's Professional Website
• Jim's Remarks to SIG-RME
• The Teaching Gap

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Corey Drake from Michigan State University discusses the article, "Curriculum spaces for connecting to children’s multiple mathematical knowledge bases," written by Land, Bartell, Drake, Foote, Roth McDuffie, Turner, and Aguirre, published in the Journal of Curriculum Studies.

• Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220272.2018.1428365
• Corey's Professional Webpage
• TEACH Math Project
• TCM article about curriculum spaces

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Heather Johnson (@HthrLynnJ) from the University of Colorado at Denver discusses her article, "A link between students' discernment of variation in unidirectional change and their use of quantitative variational reasoning," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics, Volume 97. (Co-author: Evan McClintock)

• Heather's Professional Webpage
• Heather's Academic Blog (and her rethinking time post)
• Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-017-9799-7

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This digest episode features the following summaries (timecodes indicated):

• (02:10) Thompson, P. W., Hatfield, N. J., Yoon, H., Joshua, S., & Byerley, C. (2017). Covariational reasoning among U.S. and South Korean secondary mathematics teachers. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 48, 95–111. Summarized by Jeremy Strayer
• (08:28) Lobato, J., & Walters, C. D. (2017). A taxonomy of approaches to learning trajectories and progressions. In Cai, J. (Ed.), Compendium for research in mathematics education (pp. 74-101). Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Summarized by Kimberly Morrow-Leong
• (20:10) Polly, D., Wang, C., Martin, C., Lambert, R., Pugalee, D., & Middleton, C. (2018). The influence of mathematics professional development, school-level, and teacher-level variables on primary students' mathematics achievement. Early Childhood Education Journal, 46, 31-45. Summarized by Sam Otten

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Zal Usiskin from the University of Chicago discusses his career in mathematics education.

• Zal's UChicago Profile
• UCSMP Textbook Series http://ucsmp.uchicago.edu/
• We Need Another Revolution collected volume

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Muteb Alqahtani from SUNY Cortland discusses the article, "Mediational activities in a dynamic geometry environment and teachers' specialized content knowledge," published in the Journal of Mathematical Behavior, volume 38. (Co-author: Arthur Powell)

• Muteb's Department Webpage
• Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732312317300299

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Laurie Rubel from Brooklyn College CUNY discusses her article, "Equity-directed instructional practices: Beyond the dominant perspective," published in the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, volume 10. She also addresses the personal attacks that have resulted from this work.

• Article: http://ed-osprey.gsu.edu/ojs/index.php/JUME/article/view/324
• Laurie's professional webpage: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=441
• Timeline of events: https://equitymathed.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/the-attack-on-dr-laurie-rubels-work-so-far/
• #StandWithLaurieRubel

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Ryota Matsuura from St. Olaf College discusses the article, "The search for hidden structure," published in Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (Co-authors: Sword and Finkelstein). He also describes the Budapest Semester in Mathematics Education study-abroad program.

• Ryota's Professional Webpage
• BSME Website

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