Dr' Elaine Simmt

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Dr. Elaine Simmt Assistant Professor Department
of Secondary Education Faculty of Education
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Elaine Simmt is an Assistant Professor of
Secondary Education. Her ongoing research program
includes studies of mathematics knowing in action
set in both secondary school classrooms and in an
extracurricular mathematics program for parents
and children. As well, Dr. Simmt, with colleagues
from across various content areas are studying
the lived curriculum.
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Using Literature in theSecondary School
Mathematics ClassroomA Collection of Book
Reviews and Teaching ActivitiesDr. Elaine Simmt
Socrates and the Three Little Pigs
A Cloak for the Dreamer
Zero The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Fermats Last Theorem
Number Stories of Long Ago
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The most difficult moment of writing for me is
in moving from a scant outline of a research idea
to writing the actual paper.
The exciting part of writing is often in this
fundamental idea, but then I have to write the
introductory and other parts, and that is a pain.
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Mathematics is a highly intimate act, and that
reflects on how we 'write' it. It is a
challenge to access this cognitive intimacy.
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Research writing is different from writing
mathematics.
Mathematical language is highly coded and very
compressed not all things we 'think' in doing
math we record or explainsome is unexplainable.