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A volume in the series The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast:
Monograph Series in Mathematics Education. Series Editor: Bharath
Sriraman, The University of Montana The teaching and learning of
mathematics in Alberta - one of three Canadian provinces sharing a
border with Montana - has a long and storied history. An integral
part of the past 50 years (1962- 2012) of this history has been
delta-K: Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta
Teachers' Association. This volume, which presents ten memorable
articles from each of the past five decades, that is, 50 articles
from the past 50 years of the journal, provides an opportunity to
share this rich history with a wide range of individuals interested
in the teaching and learning of mathematics and mathematics
education. Each decade begins with an introduction, providing a
historical context, and concludes with a commentary from a
prominent member of the Alberta mathematics education community. As
a result, this monograph provides a historical account as well as a
contemporary view of many of the trends and issues in the teaching
and learning of mathematics. This volume is meant to serve as a
resource for a variety of individuals, including teachers of
mathematics, mathematics teacher educators, mathematics education
researchers, historians, and undergraduate and graduate students.
Most importantly, this volume is a celebratory retrospective on the
work of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers'
Association.
A volume in the series The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast:
Monograph Series in Mathematics Education. Series Editor: Bharath
Sriraman, The University of Montana The teaching and learning of
mathematics in Alberta - one of three Canadian provinces sharing a
border with Montana - has a long and storied history. An integral
part of the past 50 years (1962- 2012) of this history has been
delta-K: Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta
Teachers' Association. This volume, which presents ten memorable
articles from each of the past five decades, that is, 50 articles
from the past 50 years of the journal, provides an opportunity to
share this rich history with a wide range of individuals interested
in the teaching and learning of mathematics and mathematics
education. Each decade begins with an introduction, providing a
historical context, and concludes with a commentary from a
prominent member of the Alberta mathematics education community. As
a result, this monograph provides a historical account as well as a
contemporary view of many of the trends and issues in the teaching
and learning of mathematics. This volume is meant to serve as a
resource for a variety of individuals, including teachers of
mathematics, mathematics teacher educators, mathematics education
researchers, historians, and undergraduate and graduate students.
Most importantly, this volume is a celebratory retrospective on the
work of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers'
Association.
Mathematics is often viewed as a set of invariant prepositions,
theorems, and axioms. However, from a historical perspective, these
mathematical objects and results have evolved and are contingent on
cultural developments within society. Studies of teacher learning
suggest that teachers tend to make sense of new ideas through
existing views of the nature of mathematics: in this way, images of
the nature of mathematics impact pedagogy. In this book I
investigate the experiences of four elementary teachers as they
engaged in a professional development project concerned with
designing a series of mathematics lessons where historical stories
were used as instructional tools. Working with three emerging
metaphoric themes, I consider how images of the nature of
mathematics can be altered through immersion in the uncertainty and
indeterminacy of historical mathematical stories. By creating with
the teachers a parable that presents mathematics as a vibrant and
creative activity, the predominant view many elementary teachers
have of mathematics as isolated facts and procedures that must be
memorized is challenged.
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