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Middle school mathematics teachers occupy a unique place in the mathematical development of students. These teachers need to be proficient in all elementary mathematics topics, together with some secondary mathematics topics. They demand a special kind of preparation that differs from both that of their elementary and secondary colleagues. The Mathematics Education of Teachers (MET) document published by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences set forth criteria for the preparation of mathematics middle school teachers which made it critical that special programs and courses for this group emerge.
This collection of articles is in response to the MET document and the result of several gatherings of mathematics educators and mathematicians training middle school teachers. We, the editors of this volume, under the sponsorship of the Committee on the Mathematical Education of Teachers, organized two contributed paper sessions at the Joint Mathematics Meetings entitled “Content Courses for the Mathematical Education of Middle School Teachers” in 2007 and “Curriculum Materials for Pre-service Middle School Mathematics Teachers” in 2008. We invited participants from these two sessions as well as colleagues heavily involved in the mathematics education of middle school teachers to write articles on both programs and courses.
We have chosen the articles that appear in this volume for several purposes: to disseminate various middle school programs structures, to detail methods of teaching specific middle school teachers content courses, and to share materials and resources. While each article describes the unique program or course of its respective institution, each also includes a common core of information to provide some consistency to the volume. In particular, all articles describing middle school programs contain information about the host institution, a history of the program, degree and testing requirements for the program and for state licensure, learning goals and objectives for the program and courses, and any available assessment data. When applicable information is included about particular courses, for example, some articles provide sample activities or syllabi and some have a description of courses in the appendix. Most articles have links to websites containing further information about the program, courses, state requirements, or resources that can be downloaded and used directly.
We expect that the reader of this volume will be either a faculty member who is new to the teaching of courses for middle school mathematics teachers or a seasoned teacher of pre-service teachers who is interested in trying some new approaches and perhaps starting a middle school program at his or her institution.
Contents
Preface vii
I Programs for Middle School Teachers
A. Pre-service Training Programs 1
1 Preparing Middle Grades Mathematics Teachers at Georgia College & State University
Angel R. Abney, Nancy B. Mizelle, and Janet Shiver 3
2 The Mathematics forMiddle School Teachers Program atWestern Oregon University
Cheryl Beaver, Rachel Harrington, and Klay Kruczek 15
3 Connecting Middle SchoolMathematics with CollegeMathematics: A Core ofMathematics Courses for
Middle Grade Mathematics Teachers
Ira J. Papick 23
4 The Middle School Program at the University ofWisconsin Oshkosh
Jennifer Szydlik, John Beam, Eric Kuennen, and Carol Seaman 29
5 The Master of Arts in Middle School Mathematics Program at Salem (MA) State University
Julie A. Belock 39
6 The Math in the Middle Institute: Strengthening Middle Level Teachers’ Mathematical and Pedagogical
Capacities
Ruth M. Heaton, W. James Lewis, and Wendy M. Smith 47
7 A Professional Development Program forMiddle School Math Teachers in Maryland
M. Elizabeth Mayfield and Christy Danko Graybeal 59
8 Discrete Mathematics: A Course in Problem Solving for 21st Century Middle School Teachers
Tanya Cofer, Valerie A. DeBellis, Cathy Liebars, Joseph G. Rosenstein, Bonnie Saunders, and Margaret Wirth 71
9 Guided Discovery in a Discrete Mathematics Course forMiddle School Teachers
Mary Flahive and Reva Kasman 85
10 Geometry forMiddle Grades Teachers at Northern Kentucky University
Bethany Noblitt 99
11 A Number and Algebra Course for Middle School Math Teachers
Michael Mays and David Miller 119
12 Vertically Connecting Precalculus and Calculus with Middle School Mathematics
Theresa Jorgensen 135
13 Visual College Algebra for Teachers
Laurie J. Burton and Klay T. Kruczek 143
14 Probability and Statistics for Prospective Middle Grades Teachers
Jennifer Szydlik, John Beam, Eric Kuennen, and Carol Seaman 157
15 Vermont Middle Level Mathematics Initiative: Courses and Materials for Mathematics Educators
George Ashline and Marny Frantz 169
16 Challenging Yet Accessible Mathematics Courses for Middle Level Teachers
Ruth M. Heaton, W. James Lewis, Michelle R. Homp, Steven R. Dunbar, and Wendy M. Smith 181
