This lesson plan, crafted during the Bard Early College Fellowship, details a unit in which students develop their own voting systems and compare them to voting methods and other social choice procedures actually used throughout society. It reinforces the idea that many mathematical notions are human constructs, with strengths and weaknesses, rather than ideas that exist completely outside of human experience
Serving approximately 80% of the one million college students taking pre-college-level mathematics c...
Teachers are faced with a wide range of abilities in their classrooms every day and are always looki...
When we teach mathematics, we strive to teach students to think like mathematicians. In this paper w...
Educational leaders and researchers recognize that mathematics can be an effective tool in enabling ...
We discuss the design and implementation of a week-long voting systems module in a local eighth-grad...
Math education in the United States remains resistant to systemic change, and our country pays the p...
For this paper, I explored the informal reasoning of undergraduate social science students in a math...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72282/1/j.1744-7984.2008.00140.x.pd
Classroom voting is a technique that involves students more deeply in the lesson being presented--th...
This study examines high school students’ views of mathematics as a tool for social inquiry in light...
Many mathematics instructors at the college level are looking for a curricular option that has the p...
There is an ongoing battle in mathematics education, a battle sometimes so fierce that some people c...
This paper reports on the strategies chosen by a group of sixth-grade students in an urban informal ...
In my thesis I wanted to establish whether application of modern technologies voting system in the t...
In her portion of this session, Wilding-Martin will extend her 2011 PES analysis of Paul Ernest’s pr...
Serving approximately 80% of the one million college students taking pre-college-level mathematics c...
Teachers are faced with a wide range of abilities in their classrooms every day and are always looki...
When we teach mathematics, we strive to teach students to think like mathematicians. In this paper w...
Educational leaders and researchers recognize that mathematics can be an effective tool in enabling ...
We discuss the design and implementation of a week-long voting systems module in a local eighth-grad...
Math education in the United States remains resistant to systemic change, and our country pays the p...
For this paper, I explored the informal reasoning of undergraduate social science students in a math...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72282/1/j.1744-7984.2008.00140.x.pd
Classroom voting is a technique that involves students more deeply in the lesson being presented--th...
This study examines high school students’ views of mathematics as a tool for social inquiry in light...
Many mathematics instructors at the college level are looking for a curricular option that has the p...
There is an ongoing battle in mathematics education, a battle sometimes so fierce that some people c...
This paper reports on the strategies chosen by a group of sixth-grade students in an urban informal ...
In my thesis I wanted to establish whether application of modern technologies voting system in the t...
In her portion of this session, Wilding-Martin will extend her 2011 PES analysis of Paul Ernest’s pr...
Serving approximately 80% of the one million college students taking pre-college-level mathematics c...
Teachers are faced with a wide range of abilities in their classrooms every day and are always looki...
When we teach mathematics, we strive to teach students to think like mathematicians. In this paper w...