Sometime This Semester: Old Readings

Piaget, J. (1970). Structuralism. New York: Basic Books, Inc., pp. 3-36, pp. 52-73, & pp.136-143.

Plato. (380 BCE). Meno. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. (1949). Prentice Hall.

Strauss, A. & Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Sage Publications, Newsbury Park, California.

August 30: Hypothetical Learning Trajectory

Simon, M. (1995). Reconstructing Mathematics Pedagogy from a Constructivist Perspective. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 26, 114-145.

Oehrtman, M. (2002). Collapsing Dimensions, Physical Limitation, and other Student Metaphors for Limit Concepts: An Instrumentalist Investigation into Calculus Students’ Spontaneous Reasoning, Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas, Austin, TX. pp. 146-230.

September 6 (Labor Day): Identity & Interest

(optional) Cobb, P., Hodge, L. Visnovska, J. & Zhao, Q. (unpublished). An Initial Contribution to the Development of a Design Theory of Mathematical Interests: The Case of Statistical Data Analysis.

(optional) Cobb, P. & Hodge, L. (unpublished). An Interpretive Scheme for Analyzing the Identities that Students Develop in Mathematics Classrooms.

September 13: Participation

Sfard, A. (1998). On Two Metaphors for Learning and the Dangers of Choosing Just One. Educational Researcher, 27, 4-13.

Cobb, P.(2000). Conducting Teaching Experiments in Collaboration with Teachers. In Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education, edited by Kelly, A. & Lesh, R. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 307-333.

September 20: Teaching Experiment Methodology

Prawat, R. & Floden, R. (1994). Philosophical Perspectives on Constructivist Views of Learning. Educational Psychologist, 29, 37-48.

Steffe, L., & Thompson, P. (2000). Teaching Experiment Methodology: Underlying Principles and Essential Elements. In Richard Lesh & Anthony Kelley (Eds.) The Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 267-304.

September 27:
Socio-Constructivism

Vygotsky, L. (1987). The Development of Scientific Concepts in Childhood. In R. W. Rieber and A. S. Carton (eds.) The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky. Vol. 1, 167-241.

October 4:
Emergent Perspective

Yackel, E., & Cobb, P. (1996). Sociomathematical Norms, Argumentation, and Autonomy in Mathematics. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education,. 27, 458-477.

Cobb., P. & Yackel, E. (1996). Constructivist, emergent, and sociocultural perspectives in the context of developmental research. Educational Psychologist, 31, 155-177.

October 11: Realistic Mathematics Education

Gravemeijer, K. (1999). How Emergent Models May Foster the Constitution of Formal Mathematics. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 1, 155-177.

Gravemeijer, K., Cobb, P., Bowers, J. and Whitenack, J. (2000). Symbolizing, Modeling, and Instructional Design. In Paul Cobb, Erna Yackel, & Kay McClain (Eds.) Symbolizing and Communicating in Mathematics Classrooms: Perspectives on Discourse, Tools, and Instructional Design. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum and Associates. 225-273.

Gravemeijer, K., & Doorman, M. (1999). Context Problems in Realistic Mathematics Education: A Calculus Course as an Example. Educational Studies in Mathematics. 39, 111-129.

October 18: Socio-Constructivism

Hickey, D. (1997). Motivation and Contemporary Socio-Constructivist Instructional Perspectives. Educational Psychologist, 32, 175-193.

Wertsch, J. (1991). A Sociocultural Approach to Socially Shared Cognition. In L. Resnick, J. Levine, & S. Teasley (Eds.), Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition, Washington D.C: American Psychological Association, 85-100.

October 25: Socio-Constructivism

Salamon, G. & Perkins, D. (1997). Individual and Social Aspects of Learning. In Review of Research in Education, 23, 1-24.

Simon, M. (1996). Beyond Inductive and Deductive Reasoning: The Search for a Sense of Knowing. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 30, 197-210.

Wertsch, J. & Rupert, L. (1993). The Authority of Cultural Tools in a Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Agency. Cognition and instruction, 11, 227-239.

November 1:
Teaching Experiment

Ball, D. (2000). Working on the Inside: Using One’s Own Practice as a Site for Studying Teaching and Learning. In Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education, edited by Kelly, A. & Lesh, R. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 365-402.

Bowers, J. & Nickerson, S. (2001). Identifying Cyclic Patterns of Interaction to Study Individual and Collective Learning. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 3(1), 1 – 28.

November 8:
Teaching Experiment

Lesh, R. & Lehrer, R. (2000). Iterative Refinement Cycles for Videotape Analyses of Conceptual Change. In Richard Lesh & Anthony Kelley (Eds.)The Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 665-711.

November 15:
Discourse Analysis

Sfard, A. (2000). Steering (dis)course between metaphor and rigor: Using focal analysis to investigate the emergence of mathematical objects. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 31(3), 296-327.

Brown, T. (1996). Intention and Significance in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 27, 52-66.

November 22: Discourse Analysis


Sfard, A. (2000). Symbolizing mathematical reality into being: How mathematical discourse and mathematical objects create each other. In P. Cobb, K. E. Yackel, & K. McClain (Eds), Symbolizing and communicating: perspectives on Mathematical Discourse, Tools, and Instructional Design (pp. 37-98). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Jordan, B. & Henderson, A. (1995). Interaction analysis: Foundations and practice. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4(1), 39-103.

November 29: Discourse Analysis

Sfard. A. (2001). There is More to Discourse Than Meets the Ears: Looking at Thinking as Communicating to Learn More About Mathematics Learning. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 46, 13-57.


December 6: Projects