Hi Joe – thanks for the question. Here’s a link to papers and presentations: http://mhomresearch.edc.org/papers_and_presenta...

And here’s a link to the habits we are studying right now:
http://mhomresearch.edc.org/MHoM

These ideas can guide teaching at all levels – my colleague Ryota Matsuura uses them as the basis of all his undergraduate work – he’d be happy to share materials with you. And Al Cuoco has a couple textbooks that might be interesting to investigate for post-secondary work.

Thank you!

Hi Joe,

The ``couple of textbooks’’ that Sarah mentions are published by MAA (with shortened urls here):

http://go.edc.org/mathematical-connections

http://go.edc.org/lma

The original paper was published in 1996:

Journal of Mathematical Behavior, v15 n4 p375-402 Dec 1996

but you can download it (and lots of other stuff) at

mpi.edc.org

Thanks for the comments and question.

Are you teaching mathematics at Georgia Tech?

Al

Hi Al,
No, I don’t teach math, I teach biomedical engineering. But for quite some time I’ve thought about what and how I teach through the lens of “engineering habits of the mind”, so the title of your project naturally caught my eye. Also, math, of course, is central to much of what engineers do, and undergrads often struggle mightily with that aspect of their work.

Thanks for your question. Definitely the fun part of this for us is post-assessment discussions with teachers, in which they reflect on the various ways they solved the assessment items – that’s a step before “results,” but the results can be used in similar ways.

Yes! Colleagues at EDC have done some preliminary work on that, including Al. Some of the items are fantastic! Feel free to contact us if you’d like to see them.

The simplest place to look around is our website:
mhomresearch.edc.org. Let us know if you have any further questions, and thanks for the comment!

Hi Tammy,

In addition to the refs that Sarah provided that provide the basis for our definitions in ASTHAM, here are some more general refs:

Cuoco, A., Goldenberg, E. P., & Mark, J. Habits of Mind: An organizing principle for mathematics curricula. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, v15 n4 p375-402 Dec 1996

(This is also available for download at mpi.edc.org)

Cuoco, A., Goldenberg, E. P., & Mark, J. (2010). Organizing a curriculum around mathematical habits of mind. Mathematics Teacher, 103(9) 682-689.

Goldenberg, E.P., Mark, J., & Cuoco, A. (May, 2010). An algebraic-habits-of-mind perspective on elementary school. Teaching Children Mathematics, 548-556.

Mark, J., Cuoco, A., Goldenberg, E.P. & Sword, S. (May, 2010). Developing mathematical habits of mind. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 15(9), 505-509.

Al

Hi Martha, thanks for the comment. We are including middle school teachers in the current work but have not yet done much work with adult ed math teachers. That’s an interesting idea.