MED 675: Teaching and Learning Mathematics at the Post-secondary Level
Spring 2003
[Registration Number 1411]

Class: MED 675  meets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 12:00pm to 12:50pm, in Bishop-Lehr Hall.

Primary Texts: McKnight, Magid, Murphy, & McKnight (2000). Mathematics education research: A guide for the research mathematician. AMS (ISBN 0821820168).
Kaput, Schoenfeld, Dubinsky (Eds.) Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education - a book series (four slim volumes to date: 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000). Click here for link to AMS bookstore listing. Selections from this series as appropriate and decided by course participants.

Instructor: Dr. Shandy Hauk
          Office: Bishop-Lehr 1504-A
          Phone: (970) 351-2344
          Office Hours: 1:00-2:00pm Wednesday, 9:30am-11:00am Friday and by appointment

Pre-Requisite: MED 610.

Course Description: Address community college and undergraduate level mathematics education issues. Focus on current curriculum reform and research into learning and teaching on the post-secondary level.

Course Objectives: By the end of the course students will have a knowledge and appreciation of a variety of issues in the research, theory, and practice of collegiate mathematics education. Students will read, discuss, and write about philosophical, theoretical, and practical concerns in post-secondary mathematics education. Finally, by the end of the course, students will have had practice connecting methods and results found in the research literature to future research design, research-to-practice transfer, and theory building by creating their own college teaching portfolio.

Course Content: The content of the course will be guided by the needs and experiences of the students. The final goal, creation of a personal teaching portfolio, will inform the choice of readings from the research and practice literature. Supplemental readings will include, on average, one research or practice article every other week. For each article, at least one student will write a brief summary. All summaries will be compiled into an annotated bibliography at the end of the course. The primary focus of the course will be the individual preparation of a professional Teaching Portfolio by each student. The portfolio contents will be developed by students over the course of the term and may include both print and web-based presentation formats.

Evaluation: Grades will be based on the following: Answers to instructor and student generated questions on outside readings; review and feedback on peers' portfolio work, article summaries, participation in class discussion, exams.

Exams:  One written exam, one oral exam. Format, timing and content to be determined by class.

Students with special needs: Students who believe that they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact the Disability Access Center (970) 351-2289 as soon as possible to ensure that accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.