Book Club

Book Club Meeting: Monday, September 13, 2021

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Francis Su
2020
Yale University Press


Past Readings

Poincaré's Prize: The Hundred-year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

George Szpiro
2007
Penguin


Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 

Cathy O'Neil
2016
Crown

Raising Achievement in Secondary Mathematics

Anne Watson
2006
Open University Press


The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

Humberto R. Maturana & Francisco J. Varela
1992
Shambhala

 

Mathematical Enculturation: A Cultural Perspective on Mathematics Education

Alan Bishop
1991
Springer

 

Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

Imre Lakatos
1976
Cambridge University Press

 

The Psychology of Learning Mathematics
(Expanded American Edition)

Richard R. Skemp
1987
Routledge  

Dreams of Calculus: Perspectives on Mathematics Education

Johan Hoffman, Claes Johnson, Anders Logg
2004
Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

Inventions of Teaching

Brent Davis
2004
Routledge 

Speaking Mathematically

David Pimm
1987
Routledge 

The Teaching Gap

James Stigler & James Hiebert
1999
Free Press

Past Books

An Invitation to Critical Mathematics Education

Ole Skovsmose
2011
Sense Publishers

A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Wolff-Michael Roth & Luis Radford
2011
Sense Publishers

Amongst Mathematicians: Teaching and Learning Mathematics at University Level

Elena Nardi
2008
Springer

Being Alongside: For the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics

Alf Coles
2013
Sense Publishers

How to Solve It

George Polya
2014
Princeton University Press

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

John Allen Paulos
1988
Hill and Wang

Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics

Liping Ma
1999
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Mathematical Knowledge in Teaching

Tim Rowland & Kenneth Ruthven (Eds)
2011
Springer

Mathematics as a Constructive Activity: Learners Generating Examples

Anne Watson & John Mason
2005
Lawrence Erlbaum

Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting

Brian Rotman
2000
Standford University Press

Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

Timothy Gowers
2002
Oxford University Press

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

Seymour Papert
1980
Basic Books

Passion of the Western Mind

Richard Tarnas
1991
Random House Publishing Group

Proof in mathematics education: Research, Learning and Teaching

David A. Reid & Christine Knipping
2010
 

Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematics Discovery

Imre Lakatos
1976
Cambridge University Press

Radical Constructivism: A Way of Knowing and Learning

Ernst von Glaserfeld
1996
Routledge

Speaking Mathematically: Communication in Mathematics Classrooms

David Pimm
1987
Routledge & Kegan

Teaching Mathematics: Toward a Sound Alternative

Brent Davis
1996
Garland Publishing

The Common Sense of Teaching Mathematics

Caleb Gattengo
2010
Educational Solutions Worldwide Inc.

The Mathematical Brain

Brian Butterworth
1999
Macmillan

The Mathematical Experience

Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh
1981
Birkhäuser

The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved & Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

Keith Devlin
2000
Basic Books

The Number Sense: How the mind creates mathematics

Stanislas Dehaene
1997
Oxford University Press

The Psychology of Learning Mathematics

Richard Skemp
1987
Routledge

Thinking Mathematically

J. Mason, L. Burton & K. Stacey
1982
Addison Wesley

The Mathematicians’ Mind

Jacques Hadamard
1996
Princeton University Press

The Mastery of Reason

Valerie Walkerdine
1988
Routledge

Theory of Didactical Situations in Mathematics

Guy Brousseau (Nicholas Balacheff, Martin Cooper, Rosamund Sutherland & Virginia Warfield, Trans.)
1997
Springer

Thinking as Communicating: Human development, the growth of discourses, and Mathematizing

Anna Sfard
2008
Cambridge University Press

Thought and Language

Lev Vygotski (Trans.)
1986 (Original work published 1934)
MIT

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