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Professor Bharath Sriraman has just finished editing an exciting new book that is about to be published by Information Age Publishing. This new book is entitled "The First Asian Sourcebook in Mathematics Education: China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, and India. Below is the cover and table of contents to give you an exclusive first taste of the book! [scribd id=80807392 key=key-1ju0w8coybk6vzguiz1m mode=list]

Being a researcher in mathematics education (or in any field, I guess) involves a lot of hard work. Some parts of that work are more enjoyable than others, and everyone has their own favorite part. Me, I love to write! Working with text, whether it is a scientific article, a conference paper, book chapter or even a blogpost like this; that's the part of my work I love the most! That doesn't imply, however, that writing is easy, or that I know all there is to know about it. Far from it! I keep learning, and sometimes I discover resources that are more useful than others. Recently, I have been using the Springer Author Academy quite a lot, and I think it is a great resource for me as a scientific writer! It contains lots of useful information and tips about all aspects of the writing process, from even before the first draft to the final part of the peer review process. Actually, I am working on a conference paper for the 2012 PME-NA conference right now, and some of the tips f...

My colleague Yaa Cole  has written an article about her project on adapting and using the MKT instrument in Ghana. This article will appear in a forthcoming special issue in ZDM , and it has now been published online. The title of the article is: " Assessing elemental validity: the transfer and use of mathematical knowledge for teaching measures in Ghana ". The articles which are going to appear in the MKT section of the forthcoming special issue have now started to be published, and Dicky Ng's article " Using the MKT measures to reveal Indonesian teachers' mathematical knowledge: challenges and potentials " has also been published online. More articles are coming :-) Below is a preview of Yaa's article (click to see a larger version!):

This blog is now a little less than four years old. Admittedly, I was much more active in the early phase of the blog's history than I am now, but there has still been quite a lot of activity here over the last four years. For quite some time now I have been wondering about how much I have actually written on this blog. I mean, how many pages would it be if I put everything together? I just created an ebook of the entire archive to check it out, and below is the result :-) [scribd id=75041408 key=key-smx78z2qcgnofxvva5y mode=list]

The (Montana) Mathematics Enthusiast , edited by Bharath Sriraman has been selected by the National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program committee to assemble and publish a set of papers over the next two years to expand avenues for more MSP projects to share what they are learning about mathematics and science education through an internationally recognized peer-reviewed journal that is widely available. Papers will be selected from the Learning Network Conference scheduled to take place on January 23-24, 2012, in Washington, DC. This conference features about 100 MSP projects, including large partnerships targeting science and/or mathematics teaching and learning in specific grade bands or disciplinary areas, institute partnerships focusing on developing teacher leadership, partnership incubator (or “Start”) projects focusing on learning about institutional partnership development, and research and evaluation projects studying and supporting ...

Professor Bharath Sriraman has edited a new and interesting monograph called "Crossroads in the History of Mathematics and Mathematics Education". The monograph, which is going to receive the number 12 in the " Monograph series in mathematics education ", will be published in December or January, but I have been lucky enough to receive a taster to share with the readers of my blog. If you are interested in the history of mathematics and/or its relation to mathematics education, this book will probably be of high interest to you! The contents feature a section with different topics in the history and didactics of calculus and analysis, and a similar section on the history and didactics of geometry and number. A third section includes four chapters on the history of mathematics in mathematics education. The authors are among the most prominent researchers in these areas, and the table of contents (see below) looks interesting. [scribd id=68742599 key=key-1ghqoghv9pjf4...

June 2012 seems to be far away, but I have nonetheless been given the privilege to share with you the table of contents of the June issue of The Mathematics Enthusiast . As usual, the issue will appear on the journal's web site, and the articles will then be freely available as downloadable pdf files. As you can see in the table of contents (below), the issue includes quite a few articles from Nordic researchers, and this is partly due to the inclusion of a section from the North Calotte Conference in Mathematics Education (Tromsø, 2010). So, although June is still quite a few months ahead, this is something to look forward to :-) Thanks a lot to the editor, Professor Bharath Sriraman , for allowing me once again to provide you with this preview here on my blog! [scribd id=68596742 key=key-s98w01hlyg2ym5dgi6k mode=list]