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Due to its limited size and highly structured agenda, participation in the Mathematics Education Research Program for Summer Session 2006 is by invitation.

The PCMI 2006 Program

Elementary Mathematics Teaching Lab

These resources offer opportunities for PCMI participants to interact with outstanding professionals who study the teaching and learning of mathematics

Elementary Mathematics Lab:  In the 2006 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.