Marilyn Carlson & Chris Rasmussen
250 pp., Paperbound, 2008
ISBN: 9780883851838
Making the Connection: Research and Teaching in Undergraduate
Mathematics Education
Marilyn Carlson & Chris Rasmussen
250 pp., Paperbound, 2008
ISBN: 9780883851838
Making the Connection: Research and Teaching in Undergraduate Mathematics Education is a collection of ideas and research on how to improve teaching and learning at the undergraduate level. Edited by Marilyn Carlson and Chris Rasmussen, the book presents the thoughts of some of the top mathematics education researchers. It touches on topics ranging from foundations for beginning calculus to insights into problem solving.
The first half of Making the Connection focuses on how undergraduates are learning mathematics at today’s colleges and universities. The rest of the book shines a light on what research is revealing about the process of teaching mathematics. “We hope that reading the chapter in this volume will encourage all mathematics teachers to become more reflective about their craft,” Carlson and Rasmussen note in the book’s preface. “In this need for reflection, teaching is much like problem solving. Teachers and problem solvers both become more effective as they acquire knowledge and skills; they become most effective when they can draw on their knowledge and skills to reflect on what works, why it works, what does not work, and why it does not work, in solving the problems upon which they are focused.”
Making the Connection: Research and Teaching in Undergraduate Mathematics Education is sure to make college math teachers want to step back and think about how they teach mathematics, then help them gain the knowledge and skills needed to become more effective.
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