Math for Elementary Education

The British Columbia Committee on the Undergraduate Program in MATHEMATICS and STATISTICS

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Contents of BCcupms MFEE Core Curriculum Subcommittee page:
bulletMembers
bulletMandate
bulletMeetings
bulletDocuments and Links

MEMBERS

The Math for Elementary Education Core Curriculum Subcommittee consists of a core steering committee:
bulletSusan Milner (UCFV)
bulletMalgorzata Dubiel (SFU)
bulletSusan Oesterle (Douglas)
bulletWendy Lynn (Capilano)
bulletWayne Matthews (Camosun)

The core steering committee above forms a subset of a larger advisory committee, including
bulletBrent Davis (Faculty of Education, UBC),
bulletMargaret Wyeth (UVic),
bulletMelania Alvarez-Adem (PIMS),
bulletMona Izumi (North West),
bulletNicholas Buck (New Caledonia),
and representatives to be named from Okanagan College and Langara.

MANDATE

The mandate of the committee is:

  1. To explore the issues surrounding the development of effective Math for Elementary Teachers courses, by consulting various groups, including teachers and math education specialists.
  2. To produce a statement of objectives for Math for Elementary Teachers course(s), and make recommendations for course prerequisites and texts.
  3. To make recommendations for next stages.

The committee will report on its findings at the 2008 BCcupms meeting, and at the CMS Mathematics Education Forum in 2009.

MEETINGS

Meetings will be set to ensure that the steering committee members can attend, but will be open to all members of the advisory committee.  Participation in the process via the listserv will be encouragedIf you are interested in joining the listserv, email Geoffrey Salloum at SalloumG@Camosun.bc.ca.

bulletMay 17, 2007: Informal Minutes (posted June 2, 2007)
bulletMay 30, 2007: Synopsis (posted June 2, 2007)
bullet July 12, 2007: Minutes (posted August 1, 2007)
bullet July 26, 2007: Minutes (posted August 10, 2007)
bullet August 21, 2007: Minutes (posted October 2, 2007)
 
bullet (NEW) September 29, 2007: Minutes (posted May 13, 2008)
bullet (NEW) November 24, 2007: Minutes (posted May 13, 2008)
 
bullet February 16, 2008: Minutes not yet approved

DOCUMENTS AND LINKS

bullet Donna Beers' report on the Massachusetts initiatives regarding the mathematics preparation of elementary school teachers: Posted Sept 2, 2009
Thanks to Leo Neufeld for tracking down the report.
 
bullet See also: Wayne Matthews' web page of summaries of the two reports referred to on the first page of Donna Beers' report
 
bullet Ball American Educator Fall 2005: Posted June 5, 2007
Brent Davis (UBC) suggested forwarding the above paper to members of the MFEE articulation committee.
 
bullet Ball American Educator Fall 2005: Posted June 5, 2007
Brent Davis (UBC) suggested forwarding the above paper to members of the MFEE articulation committee.
 
bulletEducating Future Elementary and Middle School Teachers: Posted June 8, 2007
This is a link to a FOCUS article (May/June 2007 issue) by Betsy Darken of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  She describes some surprising results from a study comparing entry and exit proficiencies in rudimentary mathematics, among several first-year university math courses. (Thanks to Leo Neufeld for forwarding the links.)
 
bulletMath for Elementary Teachers Survey (password=mfee): Posted October 9, 2007

Were you required to take a math content course either prior to or while you were completing your requirements for your teaching certificate?  A math content course is focused on the mathematics itself, but does not deal with specific teaching methods.

If yes, then we would like to hear from you. The BC Committee on the Undergraduate Programme in Mathematics (the group responsible for articulation and transfer of first- and second-year mathematics courses in BC) is starting the process of reviewing the Math for Elementary Teachers course currently offered at most institutions.  We would like to know what worked for you—and what didn’t!

Please take a few moments to complete this survey.

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