Timeline for What does a mathematician expect from mathematics education? [closed]
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| Apr 21, 2013 at 20:15 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | It seems to me that "mathematics education" denotes two different disciplines in universities. One is the effort to improve the teaching in the universities themselves, with training programs for teaching assistants and postdocs, classroom visits, etc. The other is teaching classes for students who are majoring in mathematics education (or majoring in education with an emphasis on mathematics) and who plan to teach at the elementary or secondary level. | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 20:02 | history | edited | Amir Asghari | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2013 at 17:26 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | who are interested in "mathematics education". It seems that we live in two different cultures. The best thing I can say about the other culture is people there try to experience education by themselves. It is not a bad thing until you read something written for example in Monthly discovering a point very well-known for other culture. It may have many different reasons, for example, it is a well-known problem of mathematics education that people do not use the same term for more or less the same idea. In sum, I believe the two cultures should find a way to communicate better. | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 17:09 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | @Pete L. Clark, Dear Pete, thanks for your advice. But, I am afraid to say I don't think that works whether they accept "questions" or not. It is hard to live in one culture trying to understand another culture. Let me explain. I am a mathematics educator with a sound background in mathematics. When within mathematics education community we have no problem to talk about mathematics and what mathematicians do. We understand each other, to say the least. On the other hand, I work in a mathematics department, having many good friends in mathematics community (to be continued!) | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 2:32 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | @Joel: Okay, so I used the wrong word. But functionally the site is explicitly modelled after the SE platform, so it amounts to the same. | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 1:33 | comment | added | JRN | @Pete L. Clark, thank you very much for providing this link. I note that the MTC accepts "submissions" and not "questions." | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 1:05 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | A more natural venue for your question would be the Mathematics Teaching Community website founded by (my colleague and departmental next-door neighbor) Sybilla Beckmann and (my PhD student) Jacob Hicks: see mathematicsteachingcommunity.math.uga.edu. I do advise you to phrase your question in a respectful (rather than "humorous") way there, in order to get the best response. | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 14:23 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | Unfortunately, MO is not intended for discussions, even those of great interest to mathematicians. | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 13:36 | history | closed |
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| Apr 20, 2013 at 13:28 | history | edited | Amir Asghari | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2013 at 10:12 | history | edited | Amir Asghari | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2013 at 9:58 | comment | added | Amit Kumar Gupta | The question as it stands is unintelligible, and its original intention was purely social commentary. The discussion that's followed is entirely open-ended, highly opinionated, makes no pretense even of there being an attempt to find concrete solutions to concrete problems, and is only vaguely directed at the original post (necessarily so, as the original post doesn't actually make sense in the first place) . How has this not been closed yet? | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 8:29 | history | edited | JRN | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2013 at 5:26 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | I have voted to close this question as subjective and argumentative. If it is to be saved, at a minimum the first three sentences must go. I suppose that, being CW, I could just go in and change the question. Perhaps I will do so if the question is not closed, but even with the changes I see to make, I'm not sure I can make the question into an appropriate one for MO. | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 1:33 | answer | added | Jon Bannon | timeline score: 20 | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 23:44 | answer | added | JRN | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 21:29 | answer | added | Igor Belegradek | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 20:36 | answer | added | Behzad | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 20:26 | answer | added | Steve | timeline score: 19 | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 20:11 | history | asked | Amir Asghari | CC BY-SA 3.0 |