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Becoming a Mathematician

Part of the Mathematics Education Library Book Series (volume 56)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2984-1

ISBN: 978-94-007-2983-4

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 18, 2012

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: How Does a Person Become a Mathematician?

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 1 –17

[In this first chapter we introduce our overall aim: to understand how a person, often a student, goes through the process of becoming a mathematician, and how he or she comes to think of themselves as a mathematician. Over the course of more than a decade, with a number of colleagues in...
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Chapter 2How Do Mathematics Students Think of Mathematics? – A First Look

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 19 –35

[In this chapter we begin our investigation of the process of becoming a mathematician. The first step in this inquiry is based on a series of interviews that we carried out with a small number of students studying mathematics as a major at an Australian university. In these interviews we asked...
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Chapter 3How Do Mathematics Students Go About Learning Mathematics? – A First Look

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 37 –52

[In this chapter we investigate students’ views about learning mathematics. We continue our analysis of the interviews that we conducted with undergraduate mathematics majors at an Australian university. Here we move the focus to their ideas about how they go about studying mathematics. We...
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Chapter 4What Do Mathematics Students Say About Mathematics Internationally?

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 53 –74

[In this chapter we continue our investigation of students’ views about mathematics. Here we move to the second phase of our project, involving a much larger and more diverse group, over a 1,000 undergraduate students from five universities in five different countries and continents. By extending...
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Chapter 5How Can We Track Our Students’ Progress Towards Becoming Mathematicians?

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 75 –90

[In this chapter we consider the question of how mathematics lecturers in classes that may be small, but are often quite large, can assess and track the views that their students have about mathematics and its uses. To answer the question, we describe the third stage in our overall project: the...
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Chapter 6What Is the Contribution of Mathematics to Graduates’ Professional Working Life?

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 91 –108

[In this chapter we change the focus of our investigations to students who have made the transition to becoming mathematicians. We report on aspects of two interview studies that we carried out with recent graduates from degrees in the mathematical sciences. We investigate the contribution that...
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Chapter 7What Is the Role of Communication in Mathematics Graduates’ Transition to Professional Work?

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 109 –126

[In this chapter we continue our investigations of students who have made the transition to becoming mathematicians. We report on a study with mathematics graduates that focused on their views of the role of communication in their transition to professional work. Here, we use the notion of...
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Chapter 8What University Curriculum Best Helps Students to Become Mathematicians?

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 127 –146

[In this chapter we draw on our research with mathematics students and recent graduates to investigate the tertiary mathematics curriculum. We present an argument for a particular vision of such a curriculum, which we refer to as a ‘broad’ as opposed to a ‘narrow’ curriculum. A narrow curriculum...
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Chapter 9How Can Professional Development Contribute to University Mathematics Teaching?

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 147 –162

[In this chapter we examine the role of mathematics academics in the teaching and learning of university mathematics courses. We consider various ways in which university mathematics educators could enhance their professional work by guiding students towards not only learning mathematics, but...
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Chapter 10Conclusion: Becoming a Mathematician – Revisited

Wood, Leigh N.; Petocz, Peter; Reid, Anna

Pages: 163 –173

[In this concluding chapter we summarise the main ideas and arguments of the previous chapters, based on the research that we have carried out with many students and graduates of the mathematical sciences. Here we allow two students to present their context, goals and ideas about their...

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