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The Sixteenth Annual NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J.
Preskenis was held on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Dr. Reva Kasman,
Salem State University, gave the Preskenis Lecture, "From
Arithmetic to Proof: Creating Mathematicians in the Elementary School
Classroom".
Dr. Kasman is the winner of the
2017 NES/MAA Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching
and the
2016 winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award at Salem State
University. She earned her Ph.D. in geometric group theory at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, and her current scholarship is
focused on teaching and working with pre-service and in-service
elementary and middle school teachers. Reva is a co-author of
But Why Does It Work?: Mathematical Argument in the Elementary Classroom
with Susan Jo Russell, Deborah Schifter, Virginia Bastable, and Traci
Higgins, and she is a
co-author of a chapter (Guided Discovery in a Discrete
Mathematics Course for Middle School Teachers) in the Mathematical
Association of America's Resources for Preparing Middle School
Mathematics Teachers (Cheryl Beaver, Laurie Burton, Maria Fung, and Klay
Kruczek, Editors) with Mary Flahive. Reva has been a summer faculty
member at Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM)
since 2014 and a co-director of the Career Mentoring for Women workshop (CaMeW).
Abstract: Traditional mathematics
learning tends to begin with the presentation of a polished result which
is then applied to carefully chosen illustrative examples. But this
format hides the true nature of a mathematician’s work, which is
creative, exploratory, messy, and meandering. Long before mathematicians
prove a useful theorem, they play with examples, cultivate their
intuition, and make a lot of false starts in their search for something
that is plausibly true.
How does the mathematical experience change for elementary students when
they function as a community of mathematicians? In this talk I will
share work from a project which brings mathematical argument about the
four arithmetic operations into 2nd-5th grade classrooms. We will
explore what it means for young students (and their teachers) to engage
in the earliest stages of creating conjectures, searching for evidence
and counterexamples, and ultimately supporting their claims with
representation-based proofs.
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We thank Sodexho, the Office of the Vice
President of Academic Affairs, Pearson Education, and
Cengage Learning for their support of the 2018 NES/MAA Dinner
Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J. Preskenis.
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