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