Spring 2008 Mathematics Education Colloquium Schedule

Please mark your calendars. We hope you will join us, and invite your colleagues to attend whenever possible.

These events are sponsored by the Division of Science and Mathematics Education, Colleges of Education and Natural Science.  For more information, contact Becky Murthum, 355-1715, murthum@msu.edu.

All times are 3:30-5pm (unless otherwise noted), with refreshments at 3 pm.

All locations are 252 Erickson (unless otherwise noted).

Wed, January 16th: Joan Ferrini-Mundy, MSU/NSF

507 Erickson

Doctoral preparation in mathematics education

 

Wed, January 30th: cancelled

 

Mon, February 4th: Uri Treisman, University of Texas, Austin

International Center, Spartan Room C, 1:30 pm

On Recent Innovations in Urban Mathematics Education

 

Wed, February 13th: Sharon Senk and Teresa Tatto, MSU

TEDS-M Project

 

Wed, February 27th: Claudia Pagliaro, MSU

Deaf Children's Solution Strategies/Effect of ASL on Problem Solving

Wed, March 12th: Raven McCrory, MSU

ME.ET Project

 

Thurs, March 20th: Nathalie Sinclair, Simon Fraser University, Canada

(Note change in date!)

Room: 133F Erickson

Mathematics, Aesthetics, Democracy

Wed, April 2nd: Randy Philipp, San Diego State University

Effects of professional development on math content knowledge of elementary school teachers

Wed, April 16th: Kelly Mix, jointly with EPET/CEPSE; MSU

Recent work on counting

 

Due to space limitations, we are only able to post the most requested talks for the current academic year:

Margaret (Peg) Smith, November 14, 2007:  Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions of Student Responses: Helping Teachers Move Beyond "Showing and Telling"

Streaming Video of Peg Smith, Part I

Streaming Video of Peg Smith, Part II

Joan Ferrini-Mundy, January 16, 2008:  Doctoral Preparation in Mathematics Education: Considerations about Core Knowledge

Streaming Video of Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Part I

Streaming Video of Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Part II