Math Ed reprints of

John T. Baldwin

Lecture Notes

  • "Andean Architecture: The Power of the Trapezoid" A photo essay
  • "Let M be Mary: variables from grade 3 to grade 13" PIMS Changing the Culture 2008: Mathematics: Beauty and Utility, Simon Fraser University April 2008
  • "The Math Forum" Secondary Teacher Preparation Conference, March 2008, Tucson
  • "Mathematics as Language: Fact or Metaphor" Short Course Cemala Summer School June, 2007,UIC
  • "Mathematics as Language: Fact or Metaphor: II" Short Course Cemala Summer School June, 2007,UIC
  • "Geometry and Proof" Breakout, Symposium on Excellence in Teaching and Learning of Math and Science May, 2007 updates the next entry with additional references


  • Geometry and Proof Short paper for the Tools in Teaching Logic Conference; Salamanca August 2006. This paper stresses the logical aspects of my experience working with teachers struggling with teaching `proof' in geometry
    Papers

  • The Math Forum-for Proceedings of Conference on Secondary Teacher ProfessionalDevelopment: Tucson, March 2008
  • What is a minus sign anyway [postscript] notes on formalism behind grade school math-- very preliminary.
  • The UIC Algebra Symposium [html] (with Cathy Kessel) MER newsletter Winter 2006.
  • Concept and Computation: the role of curriculum [html] (with Cathy Kessel) MER newsletter 2000.
  • Concept and Computation, the teacher's role [html] MER newsletter 1999; a review of Liping Ma's book
  • Russell's Paradox, [html] (with Olivier Lessmann, 1998 for Scientific American faq)
  • An American Example of High School-University Cooperation, [html version] (with Roberta Dees) (Proceedings of Conference in Kobe Japan, March 1994)
  • Encouraging cooperative solution of mathematics problems, [html version] (with Roberta Dees, David Foulser, David Tartakoff) (Primus,III (1993), 198-206)
  • Summer Institute at UIC, [html version] Summac Forum, 2 (1994)
  • Three Mathematical Cultures [html version] in Changing the Culture: Mathematics Education in the Research Community, edited by Fisher et al, American Mathematical Society, (1995), 17-31
    Postscript files and Latex source files can be obtained by anonymous ftp. (login name "anonymous" or "ftp"; password can be anything) from ftp://www.math.uic.edu/pub/preprints/baldwin/. You will need to uncompress some of older postscript files with the command pkunzip or gunzip. The name of the archived file is appended below.
  • Russell's Paradox, [postscript] (with Olivier Lessmann)
  • An American Example of High School-University Cooperation (with Roberta Dees)[k.ps.gz] (Proceedings of Conference in Kobe Japan, March 1994)
  • Encouraging cooperative solution of mathematics problems (with Roberta Dees, David Foulser, David Tartakoff)[ecs.ps.gz] (Primus,III (1993), 198-206)
  • Summer Institute at UIC,[summa.ps.gz] Summac Forum, 2 (1994)
  • Three Mathematical Cultures [3c.ps.gz] in Changing the Culture: Mathematics Education in the Research Community, edited by Fisher et al, American Mathematical Society, (1995), 17-31
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