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Title: MED 595


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MED 595
  • Research in Mathematics Education

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What you need for this course.
  • You MUST activate your student email account. The
    format is The format for the username is as
    follows
  • first 4 letters of last name plus
  • first initial plus
  • middle initial plus
  • 2nd digit of birth month plus
  • 2nd digit of birthday
  • A valid SUNY ID.
  • You need access to the internet.
  • You need to have Microsoft Word or a word
    processor that will save in word format.

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Recommended
  • APA Style Manual
  • Microsoft Office

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Assignments
  • All assignment will be handed in electronically
    by Friday following the class by 1200 pm.
  • IT MUST BE IN MICROSOFT WORD FORMAT
  • No late assignments will be accepted.
  • Email to MED595_at_math.buffalostate.edu

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Materials
  • Many materials will be distributed electronically
    at
  • http//math.buffalostate.edu/MED595

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Goals for the Course
  • Familiarize you with the current research on
    teaching and learning.
  • You develop and understanding of methods of doing
    research.
  • Get a start on the Masters Project and an
    understanding of what this entails.

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The Masters Project
  • The name is misleading.
  • This is not a Project in the sense that
    Project has been used in your coursework so
    far.
  • Every SUNY campus is either a master
    thesis/project or comprehensive exam campus as a
    cumulating experience to your masters degree.
  • The experience of the Project is for the students
    to demonstrate that you can pose and test a
    question through research and experimentation.

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What is the difference between a Project and a
Thesis?
  • A thesis is researching an original question that
    would lead to a publication.
  • A project question can be replication of an
    existing study or with research methods that are
    not as rigorous. Type of studies can be
    historical, statistical inference, survey or
    mathematical.

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Parts of a Project
  • Chapter 1 - Your Question
  • What information are you seeking and why is it
    important?
  • Chapter 2 - Review of Research
  • What research has been done in regard to your
    question?
  • Chapter 3 - Your Study
  • Chapter 4 - Your Conclusions and Suggestions for
    future research

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What is research?
  • Research is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration
    - Edison/Einstein
  • It is a lot of grunt work.
  • It is a lot of reading and reflecting.
  • A lot of reflecting.

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Hardest Thing?
  • To come up with a question.

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Think about how policies and determined by your
school?
One thing is true. Decisions in education are
based upon too little information.
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What is a question you might ask?
  • Form groups are raise three questions.

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Assessment
  • 50 Reaction Papers and assignments Each week you
    will hand in a reaction to an issue in the
    reading. This must be sent to me by Friday.
    Either mail or E-mail.
  • 10 Tests
  • 10 Class participation- This is not an
    attendance grade.
  • 30 Proposal

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Attendance
Attendance is mandatory. Your final grade will be
multiplied by where A is the number of classes
you do not attend and N is the number of class
meetings.
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Policy
Research Documents
Opinions
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