the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. WORKING GROUP ON GENDER AND MATHEMATICS: RECONCEPTUALIZING DIRECTIONS

The Gender and Mathematics Working Group has been an active participant of PME-NA since 1998. This working group’s history, in brief, is included in this proceedings paper. The most recent work of the group has included a monograph project, now in review, followed by a self-analysis of our work that has brought us to discussion and investigation of new topics. Those topics include: 1) Investigating research and teaching paradigms that develop new understandings of the relationship between gender and mathematics education; 2) Questioning the nature of school mathematics; 3) Problemetizing a (re)definition of the field of gender and mathematics; and 4) Establishing connections across technology, gender, and mathematics. These topics now frame the sessions for the Gender and Mathematics Working Group for th