[Maths-Education] Re: Attacks on Jo Boaler and mathematics education

[Peter Gates]

Pete has just sent me his article...enjoy.



Hi Peter
You may remember me from the BERA seminar in Swansea. Colleagues in the IoE have drawn my attention to an email discussion on the lists at nottingham.ac.uk Maths Ed forum referring to an article of mine in relation to Jo Boaler's research. I wasn't aware of this forum and have now joined. I have attached the article in question (which was published in FLM in July) so you can circulate it.
Regards
Pete

Pete Wright
Lecturer in Mathematics Education
Institute of Education
University of London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
Tel: 07972 149547


Dr Peter Gates
Centre for Research in Mathematics Education
School of Education
University of Nottingham



-----Original Message-----
From: maths-education-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:maths-education-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Drake
Sent: 17 October 2012 21:42
To: Mathematics Education discussion forum
Subject: [Maths-Education] Re: Attacks on Jo Boaler and mathematics education

Pete Write has written a helpful article in For the Learning of Mathematics, 32, 2 called  The Math Wars: tensions in the development of school mathematics curricula
http://flm-journal.org/index.php?do=details&lang=en&vol=32&num=2&pages=7-13

Cheers
Pat

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On 17/10/2012 23:58, "Lerman, Stephen" <lermans at lsbu.ac.uk> wrote:

>Dear colleagues,
>You may know that Jo Boaler's work in a Californian school, called 
>Railside for anonymity, has been attacked by some very conservative 
>mathematicians. Their attack is aimed at every progressive approach to 
>teaching and learning mathematics but focused specifically at Jo's 
>studies. They have also attacked her personally quite viciously, and 
>have contravened ethical practices by providing information that can be 
>used to identify the school and the students.
>Jo, and through her our research as a community and our desire to 
>improve the teaching and learning of mathematics, needs defending.
>Please see her website http://www.stanford.edu/~joboaler/ for full 
>details and register your support on facebook, twitter or other ways 
>you may choose.
>Steve Lerman
>
>Professor Stephen Lerman
>Department of Education
>London South Bank University
>103 Borough Road
>LONDON SE1 0AA
>United Kingdom
>Tel: +44 (0)20 7815 7440
>Fax: +44 (0)20 7815 8160
>url: https://sites.google.com/site/lermansteve/home
>
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