| CAREER: Constructing Coherence: Elementary Teachers' Strategies for Using Standards-Based Mathematics Curriculum Materials |
The first two years of this study are designed to understand the ways in which
experienced elementary teachers use reform-oriented mathematics
curriculum materials. In Year 3, we will use our findings develop a conceptual
framework for understanding teachers' curriculum use. We will then use this
framework and our findings to create multi-media cases to be used in
elementary mathematics methods courses. In Years 4 and 5, these cases will
be piloted in elementary mathematics methods courses at Iowa State
University and across the country.
Project Status: Current |
National Science Foundation |
Ames, Des Moines, and Dubuque public schools |
Corey Drake
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
(515) 294-3701
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| Connecting Childrens Mathematical Thinking to Community and Family Funds of Knowledge in Elementary Mathematics Methods Courses |
This one-year conference grant will bring together elementary mathematics teacher educators from across the country for a conference in Tucson, Arizona, in May, 2008. The conference will seek to address the following questions:
What are the relationships between childrens mathematical thinking and their cultural, linguistic, family, and community-based funds of knowledge?
How do we incorporate ideas about childrens cultural, linguistic, family, and community-based funds of knowledge into elementary mathematics methods courses?
Products of the conference will include a conceptual framework and an instructional module to be piloted in elementary mathematics methods courses across the country in the Fall, 2008 semester.
Project Status: Current |
National Science Foundation |
University of Arizona |
Corey Drake
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
(515) 294-3701
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