Vital Directions for Mathematics Education Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leatham, Keith R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics.; Mathematics Education.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6977-3

What are the most important questions researchers in Mathematics Education should be trying to answer?� �What opportunities and challenges face the Mathematics Education community as we seek to answer them? �In this book, some of the most well-respected researchers in the field of Mathematics Educat...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Reflections on a Portrait of our Field
• Making Progress in U.S. Mathematics Education: Lessons LearnedPast, Present and Future
• The Constantly Underestimated Challenge of Improving Mathematics Instruction
• In the Absence of Meaning
• The Need for Theories of Conceptual Learning and Teaching of Mathematics
• Intellectual Need
• The False Dichotomy in Mathematics Education between Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Skills: An Example from Algebra
• Needed: Critical Foxes
• Where are the Foxes in Mathematics Education?.