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Plenary Roundtable

Plenary Roundtable. Thinking Out Loud About Possibilities. How can we…. Improve our conferences? Improve our project activities? Improve mathematics education in our countries?. Common Issues/Questions Across Working Groups. About Teaching and Learning. More on Teaching and Learning.

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Plenary Roundtable

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  1. Plenary Roundtable Thinking Out Loud About Possibilities

  2. How can we… • Improve our conferences? • Improve our project activities? • Improve mathematics education in our countries?

  3. Common Issues/Questions Across Working Groups

  4. About Teaching and Learning

  5. More on Teaching and Learning

  6. More on teaching and learning… It’s all about making sense. Sense-making generates knowledge and application of knowledge leads to wisdom. (Thanks Brad!)

  7. Interesting Practices

  8. Some Other Questions • What can be learned from study within and across cultures? • Why is the school curriculum the way it is? Does it have to be this way? Why?????!!!?????Why?????!!!????? • What is sacred and what isn’t about the current organization of school mathematics programs? • How does the curriculum relate to the history of ideas in mathematics within and across cultures? • What are the ethical issues in how we teach, learn, and use mathematics?

  9. More Questions • How can we get individuals and societies to be more competent in knowing and doing mathematics? Why do we want/need to? • How should exam systems be organized? • Who/What creates obstacles to progress? • From where do we get our authority as math educators? How do we know that we know what we’re doing or talking about?

  10. Concerning the Conference Theme • Supporting innovative practices may require (radical) restructuring, possibly revolutions of existing systems and institutions • There is often a gap between intellectual/ disciplinary paradigm shifts and enactment “on the ground.” The current reform has been with us for decades now. What is holding us back?

  11. Is it… • Fear of the unknown? • Reluctance to give up tradition and security that comes with it? • Inability to prioritize resources (human, financial, technical, etc.)? • Lack of competence to enact our ideas? • That we need to re-examine our values?

  12. We do have choices. We do make choices. Our choices have consequences.

  13. THINK OUT OF THE BOX JOIN THE REVOLUTION OF THE POSSIBLE* *apologies to Ed Silver and the QUASAR project

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