Conference Keynotes
keynote speakers for the 2010 Math Recovery Conference:
| Dr. Koeno Gravemeijer Professor of Science and Technology Education Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) |
Dr. Gravemeijer is currently Professor of Science and Technology Education at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Earlier he was affiliated with the Freudenthal Institute of Utrecht University, and with Vanderbilt University. At that time, his primary focus was on mathematics education. His research interests focus on curriculum development, instructional design, domain-specific instruction theories (such as the theory for realistic mathematics education, RME), teacher professional development, and students’ use of symbols and modeling. In relation to the latter, he developed the so-called ‘emergent modeling’ design heuristic. His interest in instructional design is not only theoretical. He headed a team that developed a textbook series for primary school, in the Netherlands, and he was part of the group that developed the NSF-funded, middle school textbook series, ‘Mathematics in Contexts’. His current research involves using design-based research to develop local theories of instruction as a means to understand and support learning processes. |
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Dr. Bob Wright Adjunct Professor of Mathematics Education Southern Cross University (Australia) |
Dr. Bob Wright holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Queensland (Australia), and a Doctoral degree in Mathematics Education from the University of Georgia. His current position is Adjunct Professor in Mathematics Education at Southern Cross University in New South Wales. Bob has spent most of his working life researching and teaching in children's early arithmetical learning, and has published widely in this field. He is the primary author of three books on intervention and classroom teaching of number, published by Sage in London. Bob has led several projects funded by the Australian Research Council, on intervention with low-attaining students, including a current project in collaboration with the Catholic Education Office Melbourne, focusing on intervention in number learning with 8- to 10-year-olds. This project is the focus of a fourth book, which is due for publication by Sage in 2010. Bob's work includes the development of the intervention program Math Recovery which has been widely used in the United States, the UK, Ireland and elsewhere. As well, Bob was significant in the development of the highly successful initiative of the New South Wales department of education known as Count Me In Too, which has been widely implemented both in and beyond New South Wales. | |||||
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