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Tomorrow morning, I am starting my journey from Stavanger to Kalamazoo, MI. The reason for my travel is, of course, the coming PME-NA conference . This is going to be my second time at PME-NA, and I am looking forward to it. On Saturday (2:45 pm), I am presenting a paper that I co-authored with my colleague, Janne Fauskanger. For more information about my session, see this direct link  to the online program . If you are interested in reading our paper (Fauskanger & Mosvold, 2012), you can download it below. If you are going to PME-NA yourself, please feel free to get in touch :-) So, now that all is set and I am getting ready for my trip, the only thing I am a little bit worried about is how (or if) the hurricane Sandy is going to affect my trip. Hopefully, I'll only hear about it in the news! References:  Fauskanger, J. & Mosvold, R. (2012). “Wrong, but still right” – Teachers reflecting on MKT items . In L.R. Van Zoest, J.J. Lo, & J.L. Kratky (Eds.), Proceedings of t...

This week, I'll give my first ever lecture in Second Life ! It will take place on Wheeler Island , a virtual island owned by the David Wheeler Institute for Research in Mathematics Education at Simon Fraser University (Canada). Below is a poster about the lecture: [scribd id=108601437 key=key-1905y1zom6b69zjtc55i mode=scroll] If you are interested in attending, please contact Melody Li (melodyjamieli_AT_gmail.com) as soon as possible to help setting up an avatar and gain entry to Wheeler Island!

The latest issue ( volume 44, issue 4 ) in Journal of Curriculum Studies should be of high interest to researchers in mathematics education. It contains six articles that all focus on different aspects concerning the relationship between teacher knowledge (in particular mathematical knowledge for teaching – MKT) and curriculum standards. The articles are written by researchers who all have a connection with the "MKT group" at the University of Michigan, although some of them are employed at other universities at the moment. Here is a list of the articles in the issue: Teacher knowledge, curriculum materials, and quality of instruction: Unpacking a complex relationship , by Charalambos Y. Charalambous & Heather C. Hill Teaching (un)Connected Mathematics: Two teachers' enactment of the Pizza problem , by Heather C. Hill & Charalambos Y. Charalambous Two negatives don't always make a positive: Exploring how limitations in teacher knowledge and the curriculum con...

A new and very exciting (I know, I say that a lot! But many new publications are exciting to me...) issue of ZDM was resently published. This issue ( Volume 44, Number 5 ) is a special issue on: "New Perspectives on the Didactic Triangle: Teacher-Student-Content". The issue has been guest edited by my friends and colleagues: Professor Simon Goodchild (University of Agder) and Professor Bharath Sriraman (University of Montana). They also wrote the editorial/first article in this special issue, and it has been entitled: Revisiting the didactic triangle: from the particular to the general . The authors of the other articles in the issue is a great mixture of really big names and some younger researchers (upcoming stars if you want) in our field. Here is a complete list of articles and authors in this issue of ZDM, with direct link to the original articles for your convenience: Revisiting the didactic triangle: from the particular to the general , by Simon Goodchild and Bhara...

I have recently been told (by my good friend Professor Bharath Sriraman ) about a new and interesting book that is about to be published. The title is " Mathematics Teacher Education in the Public Interest: Equity and social justice ", and the book is edited by Laura J. Jacobsen, Jean Mistele and Bharath Sriraman. I have been fortunate enough to get a copy of the table of contents (see below) and the front cover of the book, and it looks promising indeed!  The issues of equity and social justice in relation to mathematics teacher education are indeed of great importance, and I am personally looking forward to reading this book! And the level of productivity that is shown by my good friend Bharath never ceases to amaze me. Yet another book on my reading list – which continues to grow :-) [scribd id=98278972 key=key-1i0bnc0xou5oi3r13mcb mode=list]

A new issue of International Journal of Early Childhood has recently been published, and it contains two articles that focus on mathematics. The first article, " Mathematically-Relevant Input During Play of a Caregiver With a Visual Impairment and Her Toddler ", was written by Joanne Lee, Donna Kotsopoulos and Caryl-Anne Stordy. It has the following abstract: This research investigated play between two caregivers, one with a visual impairment, and their 15-month-old daughter. The mother has a visual impairment. We aimed to identify the similarities and differences in mathematically-relevant input by comparing the 30-min naturalistic play session conducted separately between the mother–daughter and the father–daughter dyad. The mother in this research participated in two 5-week community-based early numeracy sessions with her daughter. Results revealed that the toddler engaged in more joint attention with her father who also produced more mathematically-relevant utterances t...

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association is history, and I enjoyed it a lot! The conference started off Friday morning, April 13, with a number of interesting sessions. In the afternoon, the opening plenary lecture by Professor Linda T. Smith marked the official opening of the conference. In this session, a particular focus on indigineous education was made. To me, this represented a fairly new and very interesting set of perspectives. A refreshing start of such a huge conference! I am not going to present a full overview of all the sessions I attended, because there is simply far too much to say about that! Instead, I will share some of my favourite moments from the conference. I attended quite a few sessions from SIG-Research in Mathematics Education. I particularly enjoyed the one on " Mathematical Teachers' Beliefs and Knowledge ". The presentation by Cindy Jong –where she told us about the MECS instrument–was of particular interest to...