35th AMATYC Annual Conference

Symposium

AMATYC’s newest academic committee, Research in Mathematics Education in Two-Year Colleges (RMETYC), is pleased to present this year’s symposium. The symposium begins Thursday afternoon with two sessions, Research as Faculty Development by Patrick W. Thompson, professor of mathematics at Arizona State University, and Research on Students’ Reasoning and Sense-Making by J. Michael Shaughnessy, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The sessions will be followed on Friday by Investigating Teaching Practices Through Systematic Inquiry, a workshop in which Thompson and Shaughnessy will join Vilma Mesa, assistant professor of mathematics education at the University of Michigan, and April Ström, chair of the RMETYC Committee and mathematics faculty at Scottsdale CC, to extend the ideas presented in Thursday’s symposium sessions.

The goals of the symposium are to:

Raise awareness about the potential of research to inform teaching practice;
Raise awareness about the need to attend to classroom interaction processes in order to generate authentic learning opportunities for students; and
Raise awareness about the need to attend to students’ thinking as a means for enhancing mathematics curriculum and instruction.

Additional workshops and sessions focused on research in mathematics education will be scheduled during the remainder of the conference. Look for the “RB” code to identify these events.

	36th AMATYC Annual Conference Boston, MA November 11-14, 2010 Conference Theme: Bridging Past to Future in Mathematics
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Program Registration Conference Housing Getting There General Information Local Arrangements Special Events Call for Presiders Exhibitors Advertising Proceedings 2009 Conference in Las Vegas 2011 Conference in Austin	Symposium AMATYC’s newest academic committee, Research in Mathematics Education in Two-Year Colleges (RMETYC), is pleased to present this year’s symposium. The symposium begins Thursday afternoon with two sessions, Research as Faculty Development by Patrick W. Thompson, professor of mathematics at Arizona State University, and Research on Students’ Reasoning and Sense-Making by J. Michael Shaughnessy, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The sessions will be followed on Friday by Investigating Teaching Practices Through Systematic Inquiry, a workshop in which Thompson and Shaughnessy will join Vilma Mesa, assistant professor of mathematics education at the University of Michigan, and April Ström, chair of the RMETYC Committee and mathematics faculty at Scottsdale CC, to extend the ideas presented in Thursday’s symposium sessions. The goals of the symposium are to: Raise awareness about the potential of research to inform teaching practice; Raise awareness about the need to attend to classroom interaction processes in order to generate authentic learning opportunities for students; and Raise awareness about the need to attend to students’ thinking as a means for enhancing mathematics curriculum and instruction. Additional workshops and sessions focused on research in mathematics education will be scheduled during the remainder of the conference. Look for the “RB” code to identify these events.