MER's fourth volume of papers presenting the educational work of mathematicians, was published in July, 1995. This is the fifth volume in the CBMS Issues in Mathematics Education, published by AMS in cooperation with MAA. This volume is an outgrowth of a series of programs organized by MER, between 1990 and 1993, exploring the why and how of the mathematics community's responses to educational challenges. Starting with individuals' responses, especially of selected research mathematicians, as a beginning, the programs were increasingly concerned with questions of systemic change. The authors contributing to the volume present a range of perspectives on the future of the mathematics community regarding educational expectations, and cases of how the community is responding.
Reflections on responses of the mathematics culture to educational challenges
- The Roles of Action and of Thought in Mathematics Education-- One Mathematician's Passage
Leon Henkin
- Three Mathematical Cultures
John Baldwin
- When Is The Best Proof Not The Best Proof?
Hugo Rossi
- Can university math people contribute significantly to precollege mathematics education (beyond giving future teachers a few preservice courses?)
Herb Clemens
- The Goldfish Route To Mathematics Education
Pamela Ferguson
- The Size of a Mathematics Department
Ronald G. Douglas
- The Future of the Past
Kenneth Millett
- Everybody Counts/ Everybody Else
Thomas R. Berger and Harvey B. Keynes
Educational journeys within the mathematics culture
- Project EXCEL at Rutgers-New Brunswick: Instigation and Institutionalization
Amy Cohen
- Routes to Mathematics for African-American, Latino and Native American Students in the 1990s: The Educational Trajectories of Summer Mathematics Institute Participants
Rose Asera and Uri Treisman
- Programs for Mathematically Talented Students-Do We really Need Them?
Harvey Keynes
- The Road to Reform
Ray Cannon
- Educational Change in a Research University
William J. Lewis
- Changing Institutions
Judith Sunley