World Of Mathematics Education Research Articles

Centering Students’ Voices and Identities

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Building a Global Math Community: The Joyful Math Jamboree

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Ways to Help Students Become Powerful Mathematical Thinkers

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Your Role in Students’ Stories

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Revisiting How to Foster and Improve S3D

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Activating the Untapped Potential of Neurodiverse Learners

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Growing Culturally Responsive Pedagogies

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Putting Number in the Hands of Children

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Math, Culture, Language, and Identity for Emergent Bilinguals

Ear to the Ground features voices from serveral corners of the mathematics education world.

NCTM’s Activity Gems for the Classroom

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Women Who Count: The Story Before and After

Ear to the Ground features voices from serveral corners of the mathematics education world.

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FOREWORDAssalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb. Praise the presence of Allah SWT for all the overflow of His Rahmat so that we can publish the journal AlphaMath volume eight number two. The creation of the journal AlphaMath aims to develop the writing culture of educators for both teachers and lecturers. In addition, the journal AlphaMath also seeks to accommodate all aspirations, ideas, and potentials related to the world of education. This journal's publication is in line with the vision and mission of the Mathematics Education Department Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto. The concept and mission are superior in developing the education profession and mathematical competence.The scope of the material in this journal is related to the world of mathematics education. This is to obtain innovations in teaching and ideas from educators to disseminate. Hopefully, this journal will always be evaluated to improve its quality. In this issue, the journal AlphaMath features eleven articles related to model learning, mathematical ability, and ethnomathematics. The authors of the journal come from various educational institutions.Hopefully, this AlphaMath journal can provide benefits for readers and educational actors.Wassalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb.

Becoming Students of Our Students

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Finite Disappointment, Infinite Hope: The 2021 Iris M. Carl Equity Address

Ear to the Ground features voices from serveral corners of the mathematics education world.

Statistics education at a time of global disruption and crises: a growing challenge for the curriculum, classroom and beyond

COVID-19 provided the world at large, including the world of mathematics education, with a challenge demanding attention and understanding. If met, this could potentially provide society with many of the skills needed to tackle the challenges of hyperobjects (Morton, 2013) such as climate change, which are potentially more threatening in the long-term. The COVID-19 context and the massive amount of data it has produced are the most recent examples of the growing recognition that the school mathematics curriculum has a role to play outside of the pure mathematics classroom. This paper considers COVID-19 as a stimulus for increasing the importance of statistical literacy and data literacy in preparing society for coping with world crises. Topics considered include the importance of acknowledging statistics as a significant component of mathematical ways of knowing, the contextual motivation provided by the COVID-19 crisis, the importance of statistics and statistical literacy, the place of statistics in the wider school curriculum, and finally, its place in the classroom. These topics need to be taken into account by both policy makers and teachers.

Developing Student Agency as an Act of Love

Ear to the Ground features voices from serveral corners of the mathematics education world.

Benny, Barbara, and the Ethics of EdTech

Erlwanger (1973) shook the mathematics education world when he introduced Benny, a student who successfully worked through a behavioristic curriculum. Erlwanger showed how far removed Benny’s understanding of mathematics was from expectations. Erlwanger’s legacy is the basis for this comparative case study which explores students’ actions in the modern, in-class computer-centered emporium classroom. Many striking similarities are found between Pearson’s MyMathLabs (MML) and Benny’s Individually Prescribed Instruction curriculum. In this case study we meet Barbara, a student who succeeds in MML but shows little understanding of mathematical concepts and demonstrates that the legacy of Benny is his continued appearance in our current students. However, what differentiates Benny and Barbara is more than time; it’s the inequities resulting from imposing a pedagogy with well-known problematic characteristics to developmental mathematics students. Most of these developmental students are members of marginalized communities. As such, the social justice and ethical implications of using such a course structure are explored.

Mathematical Modeling as a Tool for Empowerment

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Sustaining Community for Educational Liberation

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.

Working Together to Rehumanize Math

Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.