Hung-Hsi Wu

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These are papers about mathematics education. They are listed more or less in the chronological order in which they were written. The general heading before each title ("General", "Curriculum", "Professional Development") gives a rough classification of its content.

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Curriculum    The role of open-ended problems in mathematics education (J. Math. Behavior 13(1994), 115-128)

Curriculum    Review of three books by Gelfand et al. (The Math. Intelligencer 17(1995), 68-75.)

General    Invited Comments on the NCTM Standards (1996)

General    The mathematician and the mathematics education reform (Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 43(1996), 1531-1537)

Profesional Development    On the education of mathematics teachers (formerly entitled: On the training of mathematics teachers) (1997)

Curriculum    The role of Euclidean geometry in high school (J. Math. Behavior 15(1996), 221-237)

General    The Mathematics Education Reform: Why you should be concerned and what you can do (Amer. Math. Monthly 104(1997), 946-954)

General    The Mathematics education reform: What is it and why should you care ? (1998)

Teaching fractions in elementary school: A manual for teachers (March, 1998; WITHDRAWN. Superseded by "Chapter 2: Fractions (Draft)"; see below)

Professional Development    On the education of mathematics majors (Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education, edited by E. Gavosto, S. G. Krantz, and W. G. McCallum, MSRI Publications, Volume 36, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 9-23)

Professional Development and General    The joy of lecturing--With a critique of the romantic tradition of education writing (Appendix to How to Teach Mathematics by S.G. Krantz, 2nd edition, Amer. Math. Soc. 1999, pp. 261-271)

Professional Development    Preservice professional development of mathematics teachers (March, 1999)

Curriculum    The isoperimetric inequality: The algebraic viewpoint (April, 1999)

General    Mathematics Standards: A new direction for California (Address in the Northridge Conference, May 21, 1999)

Curriculum and Professional Development    Some remarks on the teaching of fractions in elementary school (October, 1999)

General and Curriculum    Basic skills versus conceptual understanding: A bogus dichotomy in mathematics education, American Educator, Fall 1999, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 14--19, 50-52.
  • Go to http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/fall99/index.html

    General    The 1997 mathematics standards war in California, "What is at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers", Sandra Stotsky, ed., Peter Lang Publishers, NY, 2000. Pp. 3-31.

    Curriculum    Review of the Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP) (March 2000)

    Curriuculum    On the learning of algebra (May 25, 2000; revised Jan 17, 2001)

    Professional Development and Curriculum    Chapter 1: Whole Numbers (Draft) (July 15, 2000; REVISED September 1, 2002)

    Professional Development and Curriculum    Chapter 2: Fractions (Draft) (June 20, 2001; REVISED September 3, 2002)

    Professional Development and Curriculum    How to prepare students for algebra, American Educator, Summer 2001, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 10-17.
  • Go to http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/summer2001/index.html

    Professional Development and Curriculum    What is so difficult about the preparation of mathematics teachers? (November 29, 2001; REVISED March 6, 2002)
  • Also in http://www.cbmsweb.org/NationalSummit/Plenary_Speakers/wu.htm

    Professional Development    (With Mary Burmester) Some lessons from California (November 29, 2001; Revised, May 25, 2004 )

    Curriculum    Topics in Pre-Calculus: Functions, graphs, and basic mensuration formulas (June 15, 2003)

    Curriculum    ``Order of operations" and other oddities in school mathematics (April 7, 2004: Revised, June 1, 2004)

    Professional Development    Geometry: Our Cultural Heritage -- A Book Review (Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 51 (2004), 529-537)

    Professional Development and General    Must Content Dictate Pedagogy in Mathematics Education? [Executive Summary] (January 31, 2005; revised May 23, 2005)

    Professional Development and General    Must Content Dictate Pedagogy in Mathematics Education? (February 1, 2005; second revision May 23, 2005)

    Professional Development and Curriculum    Introduction to School Algebra [DRAFT] (September 7, 2005)

    Curriculum and General    Key mathematical ideas in grades 5-8 (September 12, 2005; pressentation at the 2005 NCTM Annual Meeting, April, 2005)

    Curriculum and Professional Development    (With R.J. Milgram) Intervention Program (December 19, 2005)

    Professional Development    Professional Development: The Hard Work of Learning Mathematics (June 18, 2006; revised November 18, 2006)

    General    How mathematicians can contribute to K-12 mathematics education, Proceedings of International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid 2006, Volume III, European Mathematical Society, Zuerich, 2006, 1676-1688. (November 16, 2006)

    Professional Development    The mathematics K-12 teachers need to know (May 31, 2007)

    Professional Development and Curriculum    What should be taught in the elementary curriculum (June 2, 2007)

    General    What is mathematics education? (Plenary address at the NCTM Annual Meeting, March 23, 2007) (June 2, 2007)

    Professional Development and Curriculum    Fractions, decimals, and rational numbers (February 29, 2008)

    Curriculum    (With Wilfried Schmid) The major topics of school algebra (March 31, 2008)

    The California Mathematics Project: A critical examination (forthcoming)


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