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Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

2020

Mathematics education

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Got Books? A Story Of Creative Mathematics Children's Book Writing, Maria G. Fung, Pamela Hollander Jul 2020

Got Books? A Story Of Creative Mathematics Children's Book Writing, Maria G. Fung, Pamela Hollander

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In this report, we describe a joint project between a mathematics content course and literacy methods course for pre-service elementary teachers that resulted in our students writing children's mathematically themed books. Out report then focuses first on the creative process of combining mathematical knowledge and ideas for teaching with the craft of writing for children, and second on the creative connection between mathematics and literacy education at the elementary school level.


On "Animals", Ql Converts, And Transfer - An Interview, Gizem Karaali, H. L. Vacher Jan 2020

On "Animals", Ql Converts, And Transfer - An Interview, Gizem Karaali, H. L. Vacher

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In March 2017, Gizem Karaali interviewed Len Vacher, the editor in chief of Numeracy, the flagship journal of the National Numeracy Network. This is the extended transcript of this conversation, which ranges from quantitative literacy to computational geology, from transfer of learned content and skills to interdisciplinary collaboration.