The field of research in collegiate mathematics education has grown rapidly since the mid 1970s. Many people are convinced that improvement in mathematics education can only come with a greater understanding of what is involved when a student tries to learn mathematics and how pedagogy can be more directly related to the learning process. There is a substantial body of work and a growing group of researchers addressing both basic and applied issues of mathematics education at the collegiate level. The introductory articles, ...
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The field of research in collegiate mathematics education has grown rapidly since the mid 1970s. Many people are convinced that improvement in mathematics education can only come with a greater understanding of what is involved when a student tries to learn mathematics and how pedagogy can be more directly related to the learning process. There is a substantial body of work and a growing group of researchers addressing both basic and applied issues of mathematics education at the collegiate level. The introductory articles, survey papers, and current research that appear in this first issue convey some aspects of the state of the art. The book is aimed at researchers in collegiate mathematics education and teachers of college-level mathematics courses who may find ideas and results that are useful to them in their practice of teaching, as well as the wider community of scholars interested in the intellectual issues raised by the problem of learning mathematics.
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