Publications

Papers

Francis, A. P., Yu, P., Francis, J., & McCrory, R. (2009). Using semiotics to teach rational numbers to prospective elementary school teachers. Paper presented at the Psychology of Mathematics Education North America Conference (PME-NA), September, 2009, Atlanta, GA.

Güçler, B., Park, J., & McCrory, R. (2009). Affordances of visual representations: The case of fraction multiplication. Paper presented at the Psychology of Mathematics Education North America Conference (PME-NA), September, 2009, Atlanta, GA.

Lo, J.-J., McCrory, R., & Young, S. (2009). Developing prospective teachers' knowledge of elementary mathematics: A case of fraction division. Paper presented at the Psychology of Mathematics Education North America Conference (PME-NA), September, 2009, Atlanta, GA

McCrory, R., Zhang, C., Francis, A. P., & Young, S. (2009). Factors in the achievement of preservice elementary teachers in mathematics classes. Paper presented at the Psychology of Mathematics Education North America Conference (PME-NA), September, 2009, Atlanta, GA.

Lo, J.-J., Francis, A., & Mccrory, R. (in revision). Taiwanese and U.S. prospective elementary teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching: An exploratory study.

Lo, J.-J., & McCrory, R. (June 2009). Proof and proving in a mathematics course for prospective elementary teachers. ICMI-19 conference on proof and proving, Taipei, Taiwan.

Lo, J.-J., Kim, R. Y., & McCrory, R. (In revision). Teaching assistants' uses of written curriculum in enacting mathematics lessons for prospective elementary teachers. Submitted to Mathematical Thinking and Learning.

Lo, J., Kim, R.., McCrory R. (2008). Teaching assistants' uses of written curriculum in enacting mathematics lessons for prospective elementary teachers. Paper presented at PME 2008, Morelia, Mexico.

McCrory, R., Francis, A., Young, S. (2008). Resource use by instructors of mathematics classes for future elementary teachers: results of a survey. Paper presented at ICMI11, Topic Study Group 27, July, 2008.

McCrory, R. (2006). Mathematicians and mathematics textbooks for prospective elementary teachers. Notices of the AMS, 53(1), 20-29.

Submitted to AERA 2010

Francis, A., Yu, P., Francis, J., & McCrory, R. (2009). Examples of how semiotics can be used to teach fractions to prospective elementary school teachers.Unpublished manuscript, Submitted to AERA 2010.

Liu, J., Billings, E., Francis, A., & McCrory, R. (2009). Examining the use of reflection to teach fractions to prospective elementary mathematics teachers.Unpublished manuscript, Submitted to AERA2010.

McCrory, R. (2009). Making the abstract concrete in mathematics classes for future elementary teachers.Unpublished manuscript, Submitted to AERA2010.

Park, J., Güçler, B., & McCrory, R. (2009). Extension from whole numbers to fractions.Unpublished manuscript, Submitted to AERA 2010.

Zhang, C., & McCrory, R. (2009). Measurement error in hierarchical gain score models.Unpublished manuscript, Submitted to AERA2010.

Presentations

McCrory, R. (2008). What matters: Mathematics classes for elementary teachers. PDF of PowerPoint slides presented at the University of Georgia Mathematics Education Colloquium, December 4, 2008.

McCrory, R. (2008). Mathematics for Elementary School Teaching: What is it and how do teachers learn it? Presentation for AACTE 2008 Symposium. PDF of the PowerPoint slides for all participants: Ball; Huinker and McLeod; Zeitlin, Gold, Hertzog and O'Rode; McCrory

McCrory, R. (2008). Mathematics courses for elementary teachers: An overview of current research projects. Presentation for AMTE2008 Symposium. Pdf of the PowerPoint slides for all participants: Cole, Lovin, Moss, Smith, Costner & Pullano, McCrory and Beckmann

McCrory, R. (2007). The Mathematical Education of Elementary Teachers (ME.ET) project. Plenary talk at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, May 2007 Workshop on the mathematical education of elementary teachers. Download the MSRI 2007 Handout here.

McCrory, R., & Cannata, M. (2007), Mathematics Classes for Elementary Teachers, presentation at the Association of Mathematics Teacher Education (AMTE) annual meeting, January 26, Irvine, CA. (pdf of the PowerPoint slides).

McCrory, R. (21007). AERA 2007 Symposium: The Mathematical Education of Elementary Teachers

Articles in Review or Preparation

McCrory, R., Siedel, H., & Stylianides, A. (in revision, 2008). Mathematics textbooks for elementary teachers: What's in the books?

Siedel, H. (in preparation). Multiplication of integers in textbooks for teachers

Reports

List of textbooks, September, 2009

Pre/Post report sent to instructors. A report like this, but with data specific to the instructors' class, was sent to every instructor who participated in the project.

Hypotheses about factors that predict student achievement. This document was our starting point for developing models for HLM analysis of our data.

Advisory Board summary report, January 2009.

Results, January 2009. A one page summary of results to date.

 

Revised 09/12/2009