Mathematics Education

Research in Math Education

The Math Education Research and Reform area of the Math Forum's Internet Mathematics Library provides pages of links to resources for Pedagogical Research and Psychological Research. A few selections from these pages are offered below.

The Math Forum's own research is collected on a separate page.

  American Educational Research Association (AERA)

An Association concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the ... more>>

  Center for the Development of Teaching (CDT) - Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)

A research and development center whose goal is to learn how teachers' practice can be transformed to support students' construction of knowledge. ... more>>

  Centre for the Study of Mathematics Education (CSME) - P. Gates; University of Nottingham, U.K.

The CSME incorporates the Mathematics Education Social Research Group and the Shell Centre for Mathematical Education, which closed on 31 December ... more>>

  Encouraging Mathematical Thinking, Discourse around a Rich Problem - Math Forum: Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP)

This videopaper by the Math Forum's Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP) of teacher practitioners and Math Forum Staff opens a conversation ... more>>

  The Freudenthal Institute (FI) - Utrecht University, The Netherlands

The National Expertise Center for Mathematics Education in primary and secondary education in the Netherlands. Browse or search research projects ... more>>

  Gateways to Advanced Mathematical Thinking (GAMT) - Michelle Manes; Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)

The goal of this project is to research the ways in which high school and college mathematics students come to acquire flexible understandings of ... more>>

  Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (JRME) - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc. (NCTM)

An official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, devoted to the interests of teachers of mathematics and mathematics education ... more>>

  Journal of Statistics Education (JSE) - American Statistical Association

A refereed journal on postsecondary teaching of statistics. Current Issue, data archive, index. An archive of articles from 1993 is on the Web, ... more>>

  Learning & Mathematics Discussion Sessions - Math Forum

Newsgroup discussions inspired by recent work on how students learn mathematics among mathematicians, teachers of mathematics, and students of ... more>>

  Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) - University of Pittsburgh

A multidisciplinary research center whose mission is to understand and improve learning by children and adults in the organizational settings in which ... more>>

  Meaningful Learning Research Group - Dr. Joseph Novak

The group works with a number of common beliefs, primary among them the idea that the best way to teach is to determine what the student already ... more>>

  National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) - U.S. Department of Education

The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations. NCES collects, collates, ... more>>

  Research for Better Schools (RBS)

An educational R&D firm serving the Mid-Atlantic region, currently operating the Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium for Mathematics and Science ... more>>

  Special Interest Groups: American Educational Research Association (AERA) - College of Education, Arizona State University

Index and complete list of AERA SIGs, which provide a forum within AERA for the involvement of individuals drawn together by a common interest in a ... more>>

  Teaching and Learning (MAA) - Mathematical Association of America

Teaching and learning mathematics is what most MAA members do for most of their lives. This Teaching and Learning section provides useful and ... more>>

  Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) - Math Forum

The Math Forum's page of resources on the TIMSS study. Initial findings, NCTM response, and ... more>>

  What Will Be the Effect of a Standards-based Education on College Students? - Judith Roitman

This article, by Judith Roitman of the University of Kansas, appeared in the April 1995 FOCUS, the newsletter of the MAA. Among other things, Roitman ... more>>

  Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) - School of Education, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

One of the oldest and largest education research centers in the world, providing an environment where some of the country's leading scholars conduct ... more>>

For more, search or browse Pedagogical Research and Psychological Research in the Forum's Internet Mathematics Library.