Two-year college mathematics teaching has interesting challenges, and it helps to have a national organization representing the profession that provides professional development, issues position statements on relevant topics, and cultivates leaders. This chapter illustrates how the AMATYC organization provides these services.

The relevance of the study is based on the development of algorithmic methodological and mathematical literacy of future primary school teachers, the use of knowledge, practical skills and abilities acquired at universities in real professional activities, in everyday life. In this regard, this article is aimed at determining the dynamics of the…

This phenomenological study aimed to explore a group of classroom teachers' experiences with homework assignment in teaching mathematics. The participants of the study were 27 classroom teachers who were selected using the criterion-based sampling technique. The research data were collected with a semi-structured interview form developed by the…

The purpose of this paper is to present a framework that illustrates teachers' and students' ways of noticing mathematical engagement. This framework offers clarity about the complexity of engagement, and it includes three elements: evaluations of the presence of engagement, descriptions of the nature of engagement, and features of the classroom…

During their school life, students learn mathematical topics that can be considered essential for the understanding of the property of density in the set of real numbers. Therefore, we detected a need to design and elaborate a Hypothetical Learning Path to include topics to help promote the learning of this property. This report shows results of a…

Number talks, a popular mathematics teaching routine in the United States, may offer supports for beginning teachers (BTs) to engage in ambitious instruction. BTs' enactments of number talks, however, are varied, and there are few empirical studies that explore how BTs' enactment of number talks could be more (or less) ambitious. This paper draws…

Bridging the gap between mathematical learning at home and school has been an issue for education research for decades (Galindo & Sheldon, 2012). Expectations for mathematics do not often align for teachers and parents (Posey-Maddox & Hayley-Lock, 2016) and a limited view of what counts as mathematics persists. What needs more attention is…

In this paper we examine how teachers who are pursuing their Elementary Mathematics Specialist certification--Elementary Mathematics Specialists in Training (EMSTs)--are positioned in their advice and information networks for mathematics. We analyzed the instructional networks of six elementary schools in one Midwestern school district. Our…

In this paper, we present the spontaneous and reasoned approaches by a Physicist (B.C.) and a Mathematician (T.B.). Section 1 is by B.C and section 2 is by T.B.

Mathematical competence in middle childhood predicts socioeconomic status in adulthood. Therefore, it is important to understand the components that constitute mathematical competence from kindergarten to sixth grade. Using an analytical approach, in this article, I identify three components: understanding numbers, understanding mathematical…

Prior to the 2010 release of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), the curricular landscape in the United States consisted of an assortment of individual state standards that as a collection reflected little consensus as to the grade placement of specific mathematical content. As CCSSM has now been used as the foundation for…

This is the fourth in a series of statistical articles for mathematics teachers. In this article, the authors discuss topics in General Mathematics in Unit 2 Topic 1 (Univariate data analysis and the statistical investigation process) and topics in Essential Mathematics, Unit 2 Topic 1 (Representing and comparing data).

Ascertaining young children's attitudes towards mathematics has its challenges. Methodologically, limitations exist regarding the type of research techniques that can be employed. The use of children's drawings as a data source has both methodological affordances and issues. The study was conducted with 106 children in Years 2 and 3 from three…

The practice assignments in a mathematics textbook or course can be arranged so that most of the problems relating to any particular concept are massed together in a single assignment, or these related problems can be distributed across many assignments -- a format known as spaced practice. Here we report the results of two classroom experiments…

Effective early mathematics instruction is critical to support long-term mathematics achievement. Given that student response to typical instruction varies, a range of mathematics interventions have been developed to support foundational mathematics development. However, not all students respond to these interventions. To better understand factors…