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Changing the Culture: Mathematics Education in the Research Community

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Naomi Fisher, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, Harvey B. Keynes, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Philip D. Wagreich, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, Editors

Publication: CBMS Issues in Mathematics Education
Publication Year: 1995; Volume 5
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0383-7 (print); 978-1-4704-2329-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/cbmath/005

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Articles

• 1. Leon Henkin – The roles of action and of thought in mathematics education—One mathematician’s passage
• 2. John T. Baldwin – Three mathematical cultures
• 3. Hugo Rossi – When is the best proof not the best proof?
• 4. Herb Clemens – Can university math people contribute significantly to precollege mathematics education (beyond giving future teachers a few preservice math courses)?
• 5. Pamela A. Ferguson – The goldfish route to mathematics education
• 6. Ronald G. Douglas – The size of a mathematics department
• 7. Kenneth C. Millett – The future of the past
• 8. Thomas R. Berger and Harvey B. Keynes – Everybody counts/everybody else
• 9. Amy Cohen – Project EXCEL at Rutgers-New Brunswick: Instigation and institutionalization
• 10. Rose Asera and Uri Treisman – Routes to mathematics for African-American, Latino, and Native American students in the 1990s: The Educational trajectories of summer mathematics institute participants
• 11. Harvey B. Keynes – Programs for mathematically talented students—do we really need them?
• 12. Ray Cannon – The road to reform
• 13. William J. Lewis – Educational change in a research university
• 14. Judith Sunley – Changing institutions