[Maths-Education] Seminar invitation

[Liz Bills]

Colleagues are warmly invited to a seminar by Hyman Bass and Deborah Ball
at Warwick next Wednesday afternoon.   Details follow:


Mathematics Education Research Centre Seminar
Making Mathematics Reasonable in School
PROFESSORS HYMAN BASS AND DEBORAH BALL, University of Michigan 
Abstract:
In this presentation we examine the teaching and learning of mathematical
reasoning with young children.  What does it look like? What does it take
for students to engage in justifying mathematical claims?  What does it
take for teachers to cultivate the imperative, capacity, and inclination
to engage in practices of reasoning in school?
About the speakers:
Hyman Bass is the Roger Lyndon Collegiate Professor of Mathematics and
Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Michigan. 
His mathematical research publications cover broad areas of algebra, with
connections to geometry, topology and number theory. He is President of
the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction, as well as
President of the American Mathematical Society. During the past five years
he has been collaborating with Deborah Ball and her  research group at the
University of Michigan on the mathematical  knowledge and resources
entailed in the teaching of mathematics at  the elementary level.
Deborah Loewenberg Ball is Arthur F. Thurnau professor of mathematics 
education and teacher education at the University of Michigan. Her  work
draws on her many years of experience as an elementary classroom teacher.
Ball's work focuses on studies of instruction and teacher  learning. She
also investigates efforts to improve teaching through  policy, reform
initiatives, and teacher education.  Professor Ball's publications include
articles on teacher learning and teacher  education; the role of subject
matter knowledge in teaching and  learning to teach; core challenges of
instruction; and the relations of policy and practice in instructional
improvement.
Wednesday 4th July at 3.30pm till 5.00pm
Westwood Campus, Graduate Studies Building, Room WE015
All Welcome


Liz Bills
Institute of Education
University of Warwick
COVENTRY
CV4 7AL
tel. +44 24 7652 3218
Please reply to: liz.bills@warwick.ac.uk