Theories of Mathematics Education"

By Sriraman, Bharath; English, Lyn (Eds.) 2010

A very impressive new book, "Theories of Mathematics Education" (Springer) edited by Sriraman and English is meant to inaugurate a new series, "Advances in Mathematics Education" . This first book in the series is a massive and ambitious undertaking, a very wide-ranging survey written in a dialogic format.

-- Reuben Hersh (Co-Author of: The Mathematical Experience, What is Mathematics, Really? and Editor of 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics)

PME-NA 2010

Optimizing Student Understanding in Mathematics

University Hall

October 28 to 31, 2010 - Columbus, Ohio

You are cordially invited to participate in the thirty-second Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA), to be held in Columbus, Ohio in October 28 to 31, 2010. The conference is sponsored by the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. The conference provides a forum for the exchange of research information on the psychology of mathematics education. English is the official language.

Conference Theme

The theme of the conference is Optimizing Students Understanding in Mathematics. Papers are encouraged to highlight this theme, submitting empirically based or theoretical papers that relate to innovations in teacher education and preparation, methodologies, curricular and task design, tools for thinking, assessment approaches and neuro-science.

Plenary Speakers

We are very pleased to present four leading outstanding plenary speakers for this year’s meeting. Each plenary speaker has been asked to address the conference theme. The plenary speakers are:

Uri Leron Dr. Uri Leron
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Website: http://edu.technion.ac.il/faculty/Faculty.asp?FM=uril

  • Discussant: Dr. Ron Tzur (University of Colorado, Denver)

Lyn English Dr. Lyn English
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Website: http://www.ed.qut.edu.au/users/index.jsp?name=~englishl

  • Discussant: Dr. Bharath Sriraman (The University of Montana, Missoula)

Patricio Herbst Dr. Patricio Herbst
University of Michigan, United States
Website: http://sitemaker.soe.umich.edu/soe/faculty&mode=single&recordID=50811

  • Discussant: Dr. Deborah Russo-Moore (The State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo)

Michael Battista Dr. Mike Battista
The Ohio State University, United States
Website: http://ehe.osu.edu/edtl/faculty/BattistaMichael.htm

  • Discussant: Dr. Susan Empson (The University of Texas, Austin)