The 2005 Mathematics Education Research Program will include:

Elementary Mathematics Lab:  In the 2005 Summer Session, mathematics educator Deborah Ball will teach a two-week sequence of mathematics classes on the theory of number to elementary school children in a "Mathematics Teaching Lab." This activity will function as a centerpiece for generating structured ‘cross-program’ conversation around the theme of knowledge of mathematics for teaching. The primary participants in these discussions (including 1-2 selected participants from each of the six component programs of PCMI) will attend a daily ‘preview’ session, observe the lab classes, then a final daily session to analyze and question practice, explore the mathematics that emerges and how that mathematics informs teaching decisions.