The mathematics education team welcomes as lecturer Dr. Michael Shelly, retired teacher from Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills to their faculty.
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Dr. Nesrin Cengiz designed and led a three-day workshop for elementary teachers in Antalya, Turkey helping them better understand the mathematics they teach and to more effectively elicit, support, and extend student thinking.
Nesrin Cengiz, Judith Flowers, Margaret Rathouz, and Rheta Rubenstein presented “Fraction Operations as a Site for Preservice Teachers’ Reasoning and Justification” at the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, February 2009.
Judith Flowers, assistant research scientist, is a principal investigator and Roger Verhey, professor emeritus, and Nesrin Cengiz, assistant professor, are collaborators on a 3-year 9 million dollar grant, Michigan Mathematics and Science Teacher Leadership Collaborative (MMSTLC). The program focuses on developing classroom leaders and statewide leadership capacity to support teaching and learning of mathematics and science in high needs middle schools throughout the state. A Summer Academy for this project was hosted on the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus, June 15-19, 2009. The over 100 participants included teacher leaders, STEM faculty in mathematics and science, Mathematics and Science Center directors, and local school administrators.
At the 60th annual Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference in Macomb, Michigan, August 6-7, Judith Flowers was a keynote speaker. She helped teachers learn about “Analyzing Student Thinking on High-Level Tasks: Learning Through Collaboration.”