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Professional Development in
Mathematics: The Next Few Years
There are
many important discussions of professional development issues that are going on
in all areas of academia; we mathematicians ignore these discussions at our own
peril. We need to involve ourselves in these debates before we find ourselves
being dictated to, to everyone's detriment.
Professional
development in mathematics departments is necessary. Now is an especially good
time to do it, and now is also a good time to decide on the criteria by which
it is to be accomplished. We need to enter this arena, for our own good, and
for the future of mathematics.
Applications and Misapplications
of Cognitive Psychology to Mathematics Education