TO: Mathematics Education Committee RE: Minutes of Meeting of 18 October1995 Members Present: Brennan, Hill, Johnson, Kansky, Kennedy, Kullman, Rouse, Sanders, Walker, Zirkes 1) UPCOMING MEETING WITH PROGRAM REVIEW TEAM The Academic Program Review Team has asked to meet with all members of the Mathematics Education Committee at 3:00-4:00 pm on Monday, 6 November, in Room 120 of Bachelor Hall. The subject of the meeting will be the mathematics education component of MU's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. 2) SEARCH FOR A MATHEMATICS EDUCATOR Kullman announced the appointment of a Search Committee chaired by Jerry Stonewater to fill the position vacated by Debbie Crocker. Since the search will be for a mathematics educator for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Mathematics Education Committee will be asked to review the position announcement. The draft announcement will be distributed for review over the MathEd mail list. The approved announcement will be published in Focus (if we can meet an appropriate deadline) and the Chronicle of Higher Education. It also will be distributed through Internet mail lists serving the mathematics community. 3) TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENT FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION Discussion focused on the content and scheduling of a graduate/undergraduate course that both would replace the current options for meeting technology requirement for secondary mathematics education majors (EDT 465, SAN 163, or SAN 174) and would replace EDT 610 as a masters-level offering. The course, which would focus on the use of computing technology in the teaching of precollege mathematics, would need to be offered once each acadmic year and every other summer. Although no formal vote was taken on the matter, it was the sense of the Committee that MTH 408 should be retired and that an appropriate course should be housed in EDT. Such an arrangement would keep the course from being used as an upper-level mathematics elective; it also would provide the opportunity for the "exchange" of MTH and EDT faculty. The Committee spent considerable time discussing the draft of a possible course (EDT 465/565: Computing Technology for Mathematics Educators) prepared by Rouse. Although the course must be designed to serve as the technology component of the secondary mathematics teaching program, the Committee felt that its content should be within the reach of elementary education majors having a special interest in the teaching of mathematics. The proposed outline would split the course time about evenly between programming (some of it on a graphing calculator) and use of mathematics tool programs in algebra, geometry, statistics, etc. Use of Internet resources in mathematics education would be included in the new course or in EDT 335/336. The general description will not mention specific items of software, since it is anticipated that the course materials should and will change in keeping with the field. It was moved (Hill) and seconded (Sanders) that Rouse prepare a revised draft of the course request for EDT 465/565, incorporating changes agreed upon by the Committee. The motion passed by unanimous vote. [NOTE: Copies of the revised course request will be distributed prior to the next Committee meeting with the goal of taking formal action on 18 November.] NEXT MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE The next meeting of the Committee will be on Wednesday, 15 November, at 4:00 pm.