The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at University Level: An ICMI Study

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Derek Holton
Springer Science & Business Media, 30. sept 2001 - 560 pages
This book is the final report of the ICMI study on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at University Level. As such it is one of a number of such studies that ICMI has commissioned. The other Study Volumes cover assessment in mathematics education, gender equity, research in mathematics education, the teaching of geometry, and history in mathematics education. All ofthese Study Volumes represent a statement of the state of the art in their respective areas. We hope that this is also the case for the current Study Volume. The current study on university level mathematics was commissioned for essentially four reasons. First, universities world-wide are accepting a much larger and more diverse group of students than has been the case. Consequently, universities have begun to adopt a role more like that of the school system and less like the elite institutions of the past. As a result the educational and pedagogical issues facing universities have changed. Second, although university student numbers have increased significantly, there has not been a corresponding increase in the number of mathematics majors. Hence mathematics departments have to be more aware of their students’ needs in order to retain the students they have and to attract future students. As part of this awareness, departments of mathematics have to take the teaching and learning of mathematics more seriously than perhaps they have in the past.
 

Contents

ROBYN ZEVENBERGEN
13
Policy Issues
27
POLICY CASE STUDIES
37
Mathematics Education In Chinese Universities ANDERS TENGSTRAND
45
A Working Group Report JOHN MASON 59
71
The SecondaryTertiary Interface LARA ALCOCK ADRIANSIMPSON
87
Practice and Theory HARVEY KEYNES ANDREAOLSON
99
Professional Development for Changing Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction MARC LEGRAND 113
127
ED DUBINSKY MICHAEL MCDONALD
275
MATHEMATICS AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
301
BURKHARD KÜMMERER
321
JOHNNY OTTESEN
335
A Working Group Report JOAN GARFIELD BETH CHANCE J LAURIE SNELL 349
357
Some Examples
371
PHILLIP KENT RICHARD NOSS
395
Assessing Mathematical Thinking Via FLAG CHRIS HAINES KEN HOUSTON
423

An Effort to Increase Student Success
137
25 Years of
153
DAVID SMITH
166
URS KIRCHGRABER
185
MARTTIPESONEN
199
ALAN SCHOENFELD
221
ANNIE SELDEN JOHN SELDEN
237
JEANLUC DORIER ANNA SIERPINSKA
255
A Working Group Report 445
444
CATHY KESSEL LIPING
467
MICHEL HENRY BERNARD CORNU
481
BERNARD HODGSON
501
MARC LEGRAND
519
ERIC WITTMANN
539
INDEX
553
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