OU Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Seminar

The RUME Seminar meets on Mondays at 1:30 PM in PHSC 1105. This semester we will be spending some time reading through the book Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery by Imre Lakatos. Feel free to join in the fun! For more information about the seminar, contact Dr. Curtis McKnight (cmcknight 'at' ou 'dot' edu) or Sarah Marsh (sarah 'dot' marsh 'at' ou 'dot' edu).

Fall 2009 Talks

8/24		Organizational Meeting for Fall 2009
8/31	Dr. Curtis McKnight	Introduction to Proofs and Refutations; Chapter 1, Sections 1 and 2
9/7		Labor Day Holiday - no talk
9/14	Dr. Deborah Trytten	The Unlevel Playing Field of Engineering Education: Case Studies in Equity
9/21	Jana Talley	Instructor Responses to Prior Knowledge Errors: Analysis
9/28	Paul Howard	Proofs and Refutations, Chapter 1, Section 3
10/5	Monica Muza	Proofs and Refutations, Chapter 1, Section 4
10/12	Minsu Kim	Mathematics Teaching Assistants Learning to Teach: Recasting Early Teaching Experiences as Rich Learning Opportunities
10/19		Seminar Cancelled - No Talk
10/26	Dr. Karen Marrongelle, Portland State University	Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education: Past, Present, and Future
11/2	Paul Howard	Selections from Beliefs: A Hidden Variable in Mathematics Education?
11/9	Minsu Kim	Mathematics Teaching Assistants Learning to Teach: Developing Teaching Practice as Interdependent Relationships with Peers
11/16	Sarah Marsh	An Exploration of Graduate Student Preparedness in Mathematics
11/23	Jennifer Holt	Proofs and Refutations, Chapter 1, Section 4, continued
11/30
12/7

Spring 2009 Talks

1/19		Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday - no talk
1/26	Curtis McKnight	Organizational Meeting for Spring 2009
2/2	Jana Talley	Instructor Responses to Prior Knowledge Errors: Emerging Themes
2/9	Jason Martin	Illuminating Expert and Novice Understanding of the Convergence of Taylor Series
2/16	Curtis McKnight	Planning Meeting for Remainder of Spring 2009
2/23	Curtis McKnight	The Saber-toothed Curriculum
3/2	TaraLee Mecham	Multiple Representations and Local Linearity
3/9	Stacy Reeder	Interactive Technologies and Materials for Mathematics Education (Note: This talk will be in PHSC 355.)
3/16		Spring Break - no talk
3/23	Minsu Kim, Sarah Marsh, Jason Martin, Jana Talley	Notes from the 2009 RUME Conference in Raleigh
3/30	Jason Martin	Covariational Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Multidimensional Problem-Solving Frameworks
4/6	Monica Muza	Keeping the Faith: Fidelity in Technological Tools for Mathematics Education
4/13	Minsu Kim	Teacher Education: A Conduit to the Classroom
4/20	Sarah Marsh	The Transition to Independent Graduate Studies in Mathematics: A Partial Review of RCME VI
4/27	Jana Talley	Instructor Responses to Prior Knowledge Errors: Updated Analyses
5/4	Mi Sun Lee	Integrating Intelligent Software Tutors with the Mathematics Classroom
5/7	Dr. Michael Oehrtman, Arizona State University	Curriculum Research and Design for Calculus and Differential Equations (Note: This is a Karcher Colloquium talk featuring this week's special RUME Seminar speaker. It will take place at 4:00 PM in PHSC 1105.)
5/8	Dr. Michael Oehrtman, Arizona State University	A Smorgasbord of Theoretical Perspectives in Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (Note: This talk will take place at 1:30 PM in PHSC 100.)

Fall 2008 Talks

8/25	Jason Martin	Information about upcoming conferences and funding sources
9/1		Labor Day Holiday - no talk
9/8	Deborah Trytten	Progressing from Small Group Work to Cooperative Learning: A Case Study from Computer Science
9/22	TJ Murphy	Supporting High Achievement In Introductory Mathematics Courses: What We Have Learned From 30 Years of the Emerging Scholars Program
9/29	Summer Bateiha	Cultural Mathprehension: Connecting Mathematics to Issues of Social Justice
10/6	Joe Rodgers	The Flynn Effect
10/13	Sam Snow	When Students Don't Apply the Knowledge You Think They Have, Rethink Your Assumptions about Transfer
10/20	Narayan Thapa	Layers of Abstraction: Theory and Design for the Instruction of Limit Concepts
10/27	Jana Talley	Revision of Interview Protocol, including examples of student errors
11/3	TaraLee Mechan	Proving Starting from Informal Notions of Symmetry and Transformations
11/10	Van Herd	The Role of History in Mathematics Education
11/17		no talk
11/24		no talk
12/1	Jana Talley	Instructor Responses to Prior Knowledge Errors
12/8	Jason Martin	Thinking About Convergence in the Context of Taylor Series