Characteristics of the Discipline of Mathematics of Which Mathematicians Wish to Expand Teachers' Knowledge (Poster 27)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Eleven
  In Poster Session: Research in Mathematics Education SIG Poster Session

Abstract

This study investigates what mathematicians, who teach academic mathematics courses to secondary school mathematics teachers, want to teach them about the discipline of mathematics. Data sources included interviews with five research mathematicians. The data analysis revealed that expanding teachers’ knowledge about the discipline of mathematics was one of the interviewees’ main objectives. The mathematicians referred to nine characteristics that can be grouped into three key aspects: (1) essence of mathematics, (2) doing mathematics, and (3) worth of mathematics. The potential of the characteristics to serve as a conceptual framework in studies that focus on teacher knowledge about the discipline of mathematics is discussed.

Authors

• Anna Hoffmann, Northwestern University
  Presenting Author

• Ruhama D. Even, Weizmann Institute of Science
  Non-Presenting Author