Changing the culture : mathematics education in the research community /
Fisher, Naomi.
Keynes, Harvey.
Wagreich, P.(Philip),1941-
Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.
Mathematicians and Education Reform Network.
Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society in cooperation with Mathematical Association of America,
c1995.
At head of title: CBMS, Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.
"The outgrowth of a series of programs organized by the Mathematicians and Education Reform (MER) Network, between 1990 and 1993."
Includes bibliographical references.
Reflections on responses of the mathematics culture to educational challenges: The role of action and of thought in mathematics education: one mathematician's passage / Leon Henkin -- Three mathematical cultures / John T. Baldwin -- When is the best proof not the best proof? / Hugo Rossi -- Can university math people contribute significantly to precollege mathematics education (beyond giving future teachers a few preservice math courses)? / Herb Clemens -- The goldfish route to mathematics education / Pamela A. Ferguson -- The size of a mathematics department / Ronald G. Douglas -- The future of the past / Kenneth C Millett -- Everybody counts/everybody else / Thomas R. Berger and Harvey B. Keynes. Educational journeys within the mathematics culture. Project EXCEL at Rutgers-New Brunswick: instigation and institutionalization / Amy Cohen -- Routes to mathematics for African-American, Latino and Native American students in the 1990s: the educational trajectories of summer mathematics institute participants / Rose Asera and Uri Treisman -- Programs for mathematically talented students- Do we really need them? / Harvey B. Keynes -- The road to reform / Ray Cannon -- Educational change in a research university / William J. Lewis -- Changing institutions / Judith Sunley.
Mathematics