FORTHCOMING ISSUE

THE MONTANA MATHEMATICS ENTHUSIAST

ISSN 1551-3440

Vol.7, Nos.2&3, July 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL
0. So many journals,
So many words...
So what?
Bharath Sriraman (USA)

FEATURE ARTICLES

1. Women Belonging in the Social Worlds of Graduate Mathematics

Abbe H. Herzig (USA)

2. Magic Circles in the Arbelos

Christer Bergsten (Sweden)

3. Chaos in Physics and recurrence in Arithmetic Sets

Jean Dayantis (France)

4. Polysemy of symbols: Signs of ambiguity

Ami Mamolo (Canada)

5. Cultural conflicts in mathematics classrooms and resolution: The case of immigrants from
the Former Soviet Union and Israeli “Old timers”
Miriam Amit (Israel)

6. Climbing and Angles: A Study of how two teachers internalize and implement the
intentions of a Teaching Experiment
Anne Birgitte Fyhn (Norway)

7. Vectors in climbing
Anne Birgitte Fyhn (Norway)

8. Rules Without Reason: Allowing Students to Rethink Previous Conceptions

Mary Mueller, Dina Yankelewitz, Carolyn Maher (USA)

9. A semiotic reflection on the didactics of the Chain rule

Omar Hernández Rodríguez and Jorge M. López Fernández (Puerto Rico)
10. Some reflections on Hernández and López’s reflections on the chain rule
Michael N. Fried (Israel)

Montana Feature

11. The history of mathematics as a pedagogical tool: Teaching the integral of the secant via
Mercator’s projection
Nick Haverhals & Matt Roscoe (Montana)

Regional Feature

Northwest (U.S) Women Researchers in Math and Science Education

Compiled by Ke Wu Norman (Montana)

12. Rehearsal or Reorganization: Two Patterns of Literacy Strategy Use in Secondary

Mathematics Classes
Anne Adams (Idaho)

13. Pre-service Teachers in Mathematics Lesson Study

Elizabeth A. Burroughs & Jennifer L. Luebeck (Montana)

14. Internal and External Comments on Course Evaluations and Their Relationship to
Course Grades
Hilary Smith Risser (Montana)

15. Problem Posing from the Foundations of Mathematics

Libby Knott (Washington)

16. A Graduate Level In-Service Teacher Education Curriculum Integrating Engineering into
Science and Mathematics Contents
Ke Wu Norman (Montana), Tamara J. Moore (Minnesota) & Anne L. Kern (Idaho)