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David Wetzel

Mathematics Teaching Using Journals: Writing Strategies That Improve Problem Solving an... - 16 views

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    Math journals provide advantages for students to develop a better understanding of mathematics, with teachers learning their student's views and beliefs regarding math.
Garrett Eastman

Project Euclid Enables MathJax for 20 Journals | MathJax - 6 views

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    Cornell and Duke University presses jointly publish the online math journal community Project Euclid and recently announced that MathJax software would used for rendering equations in articles
Garrett Eastman

blog on mathematical journals: More reasons to support the Elsevier boycott - 5 views

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    Regarding researchers' boycotting Elsevier journals, a mathematician comments on the publisher's high priced mathematics titles as well as apparent lack of peer review.
Garrett Eastman

Final Report from the MSRI Workshop on Mathematics Journals - 0 views

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    A workshop that took place February 14, 2011 to February 16, 2011, facilitating discussion of "what is important about journal publishing to mathematicians," just released its final report.
Garrett Eastman

LEARNING MATHEMATICS NEEDED FOR TEACHING THROUGH DESIGNING, IMPLEMENTING, AND TESTING L... - 1 views

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    Abstract:"This paper discusses the results of a pilot st udy that explored how prospective secondary school teachers are shaped by learni ng experiences during their undergraduate mathematics education. The collabora tive study, which was conducted by a mathematician and a mathematics educator, dr ew from the experiences of prospective teachers in a non-traditional undergraduate ma thematics program that makes extensive use of technology. Analysis of data collect ed from detailed questionnaires, journals, and focus group discussions strongly suggests that designing, implementing, and testing Learning Objects promotes prospective teache rs' learning of the mathematics needed for teaching. Furthermore, the analysis shows t hat prospective teachers' experiences of ownership, engagement, and pride are key to positive learning experiences. "
Garrett Eastman

Workshop on Mathematics Journals: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute - 4 views

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    A workshop scheduled in Berkeley, California, Feburary14-16, 2011. "The workshop will discuss what is important and unique to the publishing of mathematical research articles and how we can best ensure that publishing practices support peer reviewed research in the long term. Much of the current discussion is taking place between funders and publishers, including learned societies, but not directly with mathematicians. A second goal is to see if we can find a consensus of opinion on what is important about journal publishing to mathematicians, that is, where the balance lies between the desire for profits from publishing and the broader dissemination of research."
Garrett Eastman

New Open Access Initiative Started by Mathematicians | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog - 3 views

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    "Last week Tim Gowers, Cambridge University mathematician and open access advocate who led the recent boycott of Elsevier, announced an exciting new open access initiative for mathematicians on his blog. The project, called the Episciences Project, will make it super quick and easy to set up open access journals called "epijournals"."
Garrett Eastman

Mathematicians Take a Stand - 4 views

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    A description of mathematicians' and other scientists recent boycott of Elsevier publishing for its high prices and practices to hinder open distribution of scientific knowledge, as well as a comparison of scholarly mathematics journals pricing among major publishers, and introduction to an ongoing movement of mathematicians organized to fix a "broken" scholarly publishing system
Garrett Eastman

Mathematicians' Views on Current Publishing Issues: A Survey of Researchers - 4 views

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    The survey involved more than 600 "randomly selected mathematicians worldwide" and revealed that many mathematicians publish on arxiv.org, some on their personal websites, some publish in open access journals but disapprove of publishing fees, tenure and promotion influence publication, high awareness of publishing rights, little use of online collaboration tools
Garrett Eastman

Mathematics - Elsevier - 5 views

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    in "A Letter to the Mathematics Community" Elsevier confirms its withdrawal of support for the Research Works Act, the number of open mathematics journals it publishes, clarifies policies on self-archiving of mathematics papers, and announces establishment of a "scientific council for mathematics."
Garrett Eastman

Fall of Communism changed mathematics in US - 3 views

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    Researchers from Notre Dame and Harvard, in a paper to be published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, discuss Soviet mathematicians' movement to U.S. institutions following the breakup of the Soviet Union, how Soviet mathematical study engaged in different areas of specialization from that of the west, and subsequently "a flood of new mathematicians, theorems and ideas."
Garrett Eastman

Math-Net.Ru - 5 views

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    A portal site for mathematical journals in Russian, some freely available issues and some embargoed for up to three years.
Roland O'Daniel

AP Calculus AB 2010: Bullis School - 8 views

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    "Stacey Roshan is using an approach dubbed by her students as the "backwards classroom."... The students watch pre-recorded lectures the night before the class, when homework problems are traditionally done, then spend the time in class getting answers to questions, working on additional problems with partners, and getting one-on-one assistance from the teacher. No more lectures in class." from The Backwards Class, by Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal, 02/02/11
Garrett Eastman

Mathematics Career Simulations: An Invitation - 3 views

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    Abstract: "A simulated academic career was combined with inquiry-based learning in an upper-division undergraduate mathematics course. Concepts such as tenure, professional conferences and journals were simulated. Simulation procedures were combined with student-led, inquirybased classroom formats. A qualitative analysis (ethnography) describes the culture that emerged within the simulation during a pilot test. A discussion follows evaluating the potential for career simulations to invite students to consider graduate studies and academic careers in the STEM disciplines."
Garrett Eastman

Relationship between Motivation and Student's Activity on Educational Game - 10 views

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    Discusses theory of motivational learning in educational games and presents a research study involving 115 elementary school students in math class using digital game-based learning
Garrett Eastman

Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematical community « Gowers... - 4 views

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    Tim Gowers analyzes Elsevier Publishing's announcement to the mathematics community on reduced article charges and other concessions in light of recent university, funding body and government initiatives in support of more open scholarly publishing.
Brendan Murphy

Math curriculum being revamped in Ball-Chatham schools - Springfield, IL - The State Jo... - 0 views

  • “It’s more complex lessons,” Kimball said. “Rather than just learning the skill and drill, it’s ‘understand the concept.’ ”
  • “Best practices (based) in brain research are best practices overall for instruction.”
Garrett Eastman

INTEGRATING ICT WITH EDUCATION: DESIGNING AN EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER GAME FOR TEACHING FUN... - 4 views

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    Abstract: "This research seeks to look into the design process that promotes the development of an educational computer game that supports teaching and learning processes. The research specifically looks at the design of an educational computer game for teaching and learning of the topic of functions. The topic is essential in the teaching and learning of Mathematics courses such as Discrete Mathematics, Real Analysis and Calculus among others at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) Kenya. The computer game was developed using the Basic Unified process (BUP) which is a streamlined version of the rational unified process (RUP). This is an object oriented methodology mostly used for small projects with few end users. Due to the few numbers of end users we used interview method of data collection to gather requirements for the computer game. A paper prototype was used to validate the requirements. Use cases were used for both analysis and design of the game while Class diagrams and activity diagrams were purely used for the design of the game. Owens' six top level design anatomy aided in the design of the computer game. The overall computer game design was based on Crawfords' computer game design sequence model. The well designed and developed game met all its user requirements and was able to facilitate the teaching and learning of functions to Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science students who were taking Discrete mathematics in their first year of study at JKUATs' Taita/Taveta campus. Development of heuristics for measuring interest, fun and motivation are recommendations given to aid in the evaluation of user satisfaction of educational computer games."
Garrett Eastman

Do Mathematicians Get the Author Rights They Want? - 4 views

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    Kristine Fowler, mathematics librarian at the University of Minnesota, shares results from a survey of mathematicians concerning how they want to be able to reuse their work, discusses alternatives to standard copyright contracts and urges scholars and institutions to be aware of not only their options but the rights they may cede in entering into publishing agreements.
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