Gideon Weinstein - USMA at West Point
Understanding and Developing Students' Mathematical Sophistication
Students can be mathematically unsophisticated in many ways. For example, they can be resistant to learning more than one way to solve problems or stuck on the idea that mathematics is a set of procedures without meaning or context. I will give you new ways of recognizing and remediating these kinds of damaging beliefs about mathematics by acquainting you with some results of educational research on college students' intellectual development. For the benefit of audience members unaccustomed to educational research, I will provide some background and context and I promise to keep "jargon" to a minimum.
Audience:
This talk is college teaching oriented, but I believe still relevant for [future] high school teachers. It also gives mathematicians and [future] math teachers a peek at what educational research is all about, so I think both audiences will appreciate it. Math majors will like it because it will help them be better tutors and think about ways to improve their own approaches to learning their upper-level mathematics.
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