An examination of how digital simulations can benefit the development of mathematical coaches.
Connections
An official AMTE publication for the mathematics teacher education community.
Winter 2024
Volume No.:
34
Issue No.:
2
The 2024-2025 school year is under way, and we are excited to share so many opportunities! In this issue of Connections, we share our second set in a series of articles around Artificial Intelligence in Mathematics Teacher Education. We also share calls to write for the Mathematics Teacher Educator, join the Equity Book Club, and apply to the STaR program. And don't forget the annual conference is coming in February, and now is the time to start planning your attendance. Enjoy a busy but fulfilling month of September!
Matt Chedister, Connections Editor
Larne Oriowo (University of North Carolina Charlotte)
AMTE 2025 Annual Conference Information
Start preparing for the Annual Conference in Reno, NV February 6-8, 2025!
Siddhi Soni (Central Connecticut State Universtiy)
An analysis of presentations at the AMTE Annual Conference to understand and inform members about the aspects of equity and social justice research that is going on in our field.
Dawn Turkovich (St Vincent College)
This paper examines how preservice teachers (PSTs) in an undergraduate mathematics education course engaged in a task involving pattern recognition and extension in a geometry setting. They then compared the responses of ChatGPT to their own work. PSTs identified limitations with the chatbot and, through discussion, reflected on how their wording influenced the responses. PSTs then connected this experience to their own questioning techniques used with children.
Madelyn Williams-Colonnese (University of North Carolina Charlotte)
An examination of different form rehearsals in teacher preparation.
Yuling Zhuang (Texas A&M University)
A look at how customized GPT can simulate potential student responses in a mathematics task enabling prospective secondary mathematics teachers (PSMTs) to interact with simulated responses to practice their teacher questioning skills.
Luke Carman and Anita Sundrani
What is community and why definining it is critical to mathematics education.
Greg Beaudine
Through this document, we hope to draw attention to the need to develop critical online media literacies, and through this developing knowledge, push back against the negative depictions of mathematics in digital spaces.
Recipients will be recognized at the upcoming Annual Conference.
The 29th Annual Conference of AMTE will be held February 6-8, 2025 in Reno, NV. Check out the flyer here. In conjunction with the Annual Conference, the Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership will be offering a conference:
Elementary Mathematics Specialist Initiatives
AMTE is excited to share the newly published Guidelines for Preparing and Supporting Elementary Mathematics Specialists. Be sure to also check out the Elementary Mathematics Specialist Initiatives page that includes a new list of Resources for EMS Teacher Educators and EMSs.
Connections is a quarterly online publication of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. The newsletter offers a peer-reviewed opportunity for members to disseminate information to the mathematics teacher education community.
Editor
- Matt Chedister, University of Wisconsin- La Cross, mchedister@uwlax.edu (2024-2026)
Editorial Panel
- Cathrine Maiorca, Oklahoma State University, cat.maiorca@okstate.edu (2022-2025)
- Laura Kent, University of Arkansas, lkent@uark.edu (2024-2025)
- Jodi Frost, Indiana State University, jodi.frost@indstate.edu (2023-2026)
- Eugenia Vomvoridi, University of South Florida-Tampa, eugeniav@usf.edu (2023-2026)
- Trena Wilkerson, Baylor University, trena_wilkerson@baylor.edu (2024-2027)
- Yi-Jung Lee, University of Arkansas, yl049@uark.edu (2024-2027)