Mathematics Education Research: A Guide for the Research Mathematician
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (698 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0821820168 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 106 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book--the collaborative effort of a research mathematician, mathematics education researchers who work in a research mathematics department and a professional librarian--introduces research mathematicians to education research. Most simply, mathematics education research is inquiry by carefully developed research methods aimed at providing evidence about the nature and relationships of many mathematics learning and teaching phenomena. It seeks to clarify the phenomena, illuminate them, explain how they are related to other phenomena, and explain how this may be related to undergraduate mathematics course organization and teaching. This guide is of practical interest to university-based research
"Method-fetishism" according to Viktor Blasjo. This book is a manifestation of the mathematics education community's thickheaded identification with its methods rather than its results. The entire book is about delineating what constitutes "adequate research" (p. 12), "legitimate research" (p. 21), etc., and denigrating anything that does not conform to these narrow standards. This stupid method-fetishism is taken to be an end in itself. Not a single result of this so-called "research" is discussed anywhere in the book; a state of affairs that the authors apparently consider to be entirely in order.If you go to graduate. "Breaking the Qualitative Barrier for Research in CS" according to Dennis Stevenson. We are doing reseach in problem solving in computer science. So little is known about how the human does this that we had to start at the very beginning. We have had a hard time selling this to all the scientists and engineers because we don't have big numbers and there is a huge amount of flat misinformation out there.This book will help you overcome these obstacles.