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Love a good problem? Like to solve difficult puzzles? Join professors, graduate students and undergraduates as we tackle problems presented from several mathematical journals. An interest in higher level mathematics is all that is required to join our round table. Offer what you know, learn what you don't in a relaxed environment with some of our department's finest!
Curious about foundational mathematics? Interested in the intersection of math and philosophy? Have questions about infinity, proofs, or the nature of truth?Click here for more information
Quantitative reasoning’s emergence as a foundation for students’ mathematical development has generated a need for supporting teachers’ capacity to teach for such reasoning. Complicating the matter, teachers’ extant meanings can be incompatible with or create obstacles in their reasoning quantitatively. In this talk, I discuss a meanings perspective on working with prospective and practicing teachers in order to honor their extant meanings while supporting their constructing meanings that foreground quantitative reasoning. This meanings perspective, referred to as competing meanings, involves a problematization of extant meanings, the construction of alternative meanings, and a critical comparison of each. I present the competing meanings perspective and informing theories, and I draw on my research team's empirical work to provide tangible and research-based examples of the competing meanings perspective.Click here for more information