Brown Dot Teaching Resources

the Education of Mathematics Teachers

Worksheets and Other Course materials

• The Mathematics Forum: Math Ed resources at Swarthmore (Edith Prentice Mendez)
• Robin Pemantle's discovery-learning materials: Robin Pemantle is a prof at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. (Tom Roby, metis@seki.mcs.csuhayward.edu)
• SLU Teaching Materials: Anneke Bart and Mike May have collected some resources for teaching teacher. Mostly geometry stuff. (Anneke Bart)
• Anneke Bart's teaching materials. Was orignially just a very short list (all of it geometry related), but she promises to "add other material to it when I have a little bit more time." Worksheets are in postscript and pdf formats. (Anneke Bart)
• Massachusetts DOE Comprehensive Assessment System
• Materials used in a first course for teachers at Calvin College: Course covers primarily problem solving and number systems (counting, operations, algorithms, fractions, decimals, percents, etc) and ends with a bit of algebra. Materials are available in postscript, pdf, and laTeX source. (Randall Pruim)

Info on Active Teaching Strategies

• Tutor Certification Program sponsored by the College Reading and Learning Association. They provide good suggestions for what to do, and have some curriculum materials available. (Gideon Weinstein)
• Supplemental Instruction materials. Another source of good ideas. See the SI Leader training manual, for example. (Gideon Weinstein)
• Recommended Articles
  • Finkel, D. L., and G. S. Monk (1983). "Teachers and Learning Groups: Dissolution of the Atlas Complex", in Learning in Groups, Jossey-Bass, 83-97. Avalaible as PDF file.

    This is an important article to read if you're not completely convinced about cooperative learning (or even if you THINK you're convinced but still have trouble "sticking with it"). (Steve Benson, bensons@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU)

Middle Grades Mathematics

• The Middle Grade Mathematics certification program and Columbia. (Niel Portnoy, portnoy@math.utk.edu)
• There is a special program for middle grades mathematics teachers at the University of New Hampshire Department of Mathematics. (Niel Portnoy, portnoy@math.utk.edu)

Lists of links

• Visit T.J. Murphey's home page to see the education related links he has collected.
• Julian Fleron also has links on his home page. (Check out "Mathematical and Educational Quotation Server" and a "Mathematics for Liberal Arts Information Page".)

Miscellaneous

• Judith Covington took notes at the Project NExT Teacher Education Sessions at the Joint Mettings in Washington, DC, (January, 2000).

This page maintained by:
Randall Pruim
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Calvin College
rpruim@calvin.edu