Publications

Overview

Here we provide a list of references that can be used as resources for instructors; they are grouped by role of the instructor / teaching, instructional change, student thinking, mathematics, and general.


Inquiry Based Mathematics Education

Laursen, S. & Rasmussen, C. (2019). I on the prize: Inquiry approaches in undergraduate mathematics. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education5(1), 129–146.

Role of the Instructor / Teaching

Johnson, E. (2013). Teachers’ mathematical activity in inquiry-oriented instruction. Journal of Mathematical Behavior32(4), 761–775.

Johnson, E., Andrews-Larson, C., Keene, K. A., Melhuish, K., Keller, R., & Fortune, N. (2020). Inquiry and gender inequity in the undergraduate mathematics classroom. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education51(4), 504 – 516. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5951/jresematheduc-2020-0043.

Johnson, E., Caughman, J., Fredericks, J., & Gibson, L. (2013). Implementing inquiry-oriented curriculum: From the mathematicians’ perspective. Journal of Mathematical Behavior32(4), 743–760.

Johnson, E., & Larsen, S. (2012). Teacher listening: The role of knowledge of content and students. Journal of Mathematical Behavior31(1), 117–129.

Kuster, G., Johnson, E., Keene, K. A., & Andrews-Larson, C. (2018). Inquiry-oriented instruction: A conceptualization of the instructional the components and practices. PRIMUS28(1), 13–30.

Kuster, G., Johnson, E., Rupnow, R., & Wilhelm, A. G. (2019). The Inquiry-Oriented Instructional Measure. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education5(2), 183–204.

Marrongelle, K., & Rasmussen, C. (2008). Meeting new teaching challenges: Teaching strategies that mediate between all lecture and all student discovery. In M. Carlson, & C. Rasmussen (Eds.), Making the connection: Research and teaching in undergraduate mathematics education (pp. 167-178). Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America.

Rasmussen, C., & King, K. D. (2000). Locating starting points in differential equations: A realistic mathematics education approach. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology31(2), 161–172.

Rasmussen, C., & Kwon, O. N. (2007). An inquiry-oriented approach to undergraduate mathematics. Journal of Mathematical Behavior26(3), 189–194.

Rasmussen, C., & Marrongelle, K. (2006). Pedagogical content tools: Integrating student reasoning and mathematics in instruction. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education37(5), 388–420.

Rasmussen, C., Marrongelle, K., Kwon, O.N., & Hodge, A. (2017). Four goals for instructors using inquiry-based learning. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 64(11), 1308-1311.

Rasmussen, C., Zandieh, M., & Wawro, M. (2009). How do you know which way the arrows go? The emergence and brokering of a classroom mathematics practice. In W.-M. Roth (Ed.), Mathematical representations at the interface of the body and culture (pp. 171-218). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Stephan, M., & Rasmussen, C. (2002). Classroom mathematical practices in differential equations. Journal of Mathematical Behavior21(4), 459–490.

Yackel, E. (2002). What we can learn from analyzing the teacher’s role in collective argumentation. Journal of Mathematical Behavior21(4), 423–440.

Yackel, E., Rasmussen, C., & King, K. D. (2000). Social and sociomathematical norms in an advanced undergraduate mathematics course. Journal of Mathematical Behavior19, 275–287.

Yoshinobu, S., & Jones, M. G. (2012). The coverage issue. PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies22(4), 303–316.

Zwanch, K., Mullins, S. B., Fortune, N., & Keene, K. A. (2021). Situating students’ achievement and perceptions of inquiry-oriented instruction within their motivational beliefs: A mixed methods study. Investigations in Mathematics Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/19477503.2021.1884446.

Instructional Change

Andrews-Larson, C., Peterson, V., & Keller, R. (2016). Eliciting mathematicians’ pedagogical reasoning. In T. Fukawa-Connelly, N. E. Infante, M. Wawro, & S. Brown (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. Pittsburgh, PA: West Virginia University.

Fortune, N. & Keene, K. A. (2021). Participating in an online working group and reforming instruction: The case of Dr. DM. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40753-020-00126-5.

Fortune, N. & Keene, K. A. (2019). A mathematician’s instructional change endeavors: Pursuing students’ mathematical thinking. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on the Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (pp. TBA). Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma.

Fortune, N. & Keene, K. A. (2017). Online faculty collaboration to support instructional change. In E. Galindo & J. Newton, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 543). Indianapolis, IN: Hoosier Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.

Fortune, N., Keene, K. A., & Hall. W. (2017). Using video in online working groups to support faculty collaboration. In A. Weinberg, C. Rasmussen, J. Rabin, M. Wawro, & S. Brown (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (pp. 690-697). San Diego, CA: San Diego State University.

Speer, N. M., & Wagner, J. F. (2009). Knowledge needed by a teacher to provide analytic scaffolding during undergraduate mathematics classroom discussions. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education40(5), 530–562.

Wagner, J. F., Speer, N. M., & Rossa, B. (2007). Beyond mathematical content knowledge: A mathematician’s knowledge needed for teaching an inquiry-oriented differential equations course. Journal of Mathematical Behavior26(3), 247–266.

Student Thinking

Bouhjar, K., Andrews-Larson, C., Haider, M., & Zandieh, M. (2018). Examining students’ procedural and conceptual understanding of eigenvectors and eigenvalues in the context of inquiry-oriented instruction. In S. Stewart, C. Andrews-Larson, A. Berman, & M. Zandieh (Eds.), Challenges in teaching linear algebra. Springer: Cham. 

Hall, W., Keene, K. A., & Fortune, N. (2016). Measuring student conceptual understanding: The case of Euler’s method. In T. Fukawa-Connelly, N. E. Infante, M. Wawro, & S. Brown (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (pp. 837-842). Pittsburgh, PA: West Virginia University.

Keene, K. A. (2007). A characterization of dynamic reasoning: Reasoning with time as parameter. Journal of Mathematical Behavior26(3), 230–246.

Keene, K. A., & Rasmussen, C. (2013). Sometimes less is more:  Examples of student-centered technology as boundary objects in differential equations. In S. Habre (Ed.), Enhancing mathematics understanding through visualization: The role of dynamical software (pp. 12-36). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Keene, K. A., Rasmussen, C., & Stephan, M. (2012). Gestures and a chain of signification: The case of equilibrium solutions. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 24, 347-369.

Kwon, O. N., Rasmussen, C., & Allen, K. (2005). Students’ retention of mathematical knowledge and skills in differential equations. School Science and Mathematics105(5), 227–240.

Marrongelle, K. (2007). The function of graphs and gestures in algorithmatization. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior26(3), 211-229.

Rasmussen, C. (2001). New directions in differential equations: A framework for interpreting students’ understandings and difficulties. Journal of Mathematical Behavior20(1), 55–87.

Rasmussen, C., & Blumenfeld, H. (2007). Reinventing solutions to systems of linear differential equations: A case of emergent models involving analytic expressions. Journal of Mathematical Behavior26(3), 195–210.

Rasmussen, C. & Keene, K. A. (2019). Knowing solutions to differential equations with rate of change as a function: Waypoints in the journey. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior. In press.

Rasmussen, C., Kwon, O. N., Allen, K., Marrongelle, K., & Burtch, M. (2006). Capitalizing on advances in mathematics and K-12 mathematics education in undergraduate mathematics: An inquiry-oriented approach to differential equations. Asia Pacific Education Review7(1), 85–93.

Rasmussen, C., Stephan, M., & Allen, K. (2004). Classroom mathematical practices and gesturing. Journal of Mathematical Behavior23, 301–323.

Zandieh, M., Wawro, M., & Rasmussen, C. (2016). Symbolizing and brokering in an inquiry oriented linear algebra classroom. In T. Fukawa-Connelly, N. E. Infante, M. Wawro, & S. Brown (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. Pittsburgh, PA: West Virginia University.

Mathematics

Oremland, L., Dunmyre, J., & Fortune, N. (2021). Reinventing the Salty Tank through guided inquiry. PRIMUS, 32(5), 621 – 635. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511970.2021.1879332.

Rasmussen, C., Dunmyre, J., Fortune, N., & Keene, K. (2019). Modeling as a means to develop new ideas: The case of reinventing a bifurcation diagram. PRIMUS29(6), 509–526. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511970.2018.1472160.

Rasmussen, C., & Keynes, M. (2003). Lines of eigenvectors and solutions to systems of linear differential equations. PRIMUS13(4), 308–320.

Rasmussen, C., & Ruan, W. (2008). Using theorems-as-tools: A case study of the uniqueness theorem in differential equations. In Making the connection: Research and teaching in undergraduate mathematics(pp. 153–164). Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America.

Social Justice

Dunmyre, J., Fortune, N., Bogart, T., Rasmussen, C., & Keene, K. (2019). Climate change in a differential equations course: Using bifurcation diagrams to explore small changes with big effects. Community of Ordinary Differential Equation Educators Special Issue Linking Differential Equations to Social Justice and Environmental Concerns12(1), 1–10.

Fortune, N., Rasmussen, C., Keene, K. A., Bogart, T., & Dunmyre, J. (2020). Bringing social justice topics to differential equations via a climate change problem: Identity, power, access, and achievement. MathAMATYC Educator, 11(3), 26 – 32, 66 – 67.

General

Johnson, E., Keene, K. A., & Andrews-Larson, C. (2015). Inquiry-oriented instruction: What it is and how we are trying to help. American Mathematical Society Blogs On Teaching and Learning. Available at this link.

Rasmussen, C., & Keene, K. A. (2015). Software tools that do more with less. Mathematics Today, (December), 282–285.

Rasmussen, C., & Whitehead, K. (2003). Learning and teaching ordinary differential equations. In A. Selden & J. Selden (Eds.), MAA online research sampler (pp. 1–12). Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America.

Rasmussen, C., Zandieh, M., King, K., & Teppo, A. (2005). Advancing mathematical activity: A view of advanced mathematical thinking. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 7, 51-73.

Rota, G. C. (1997). Ten lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations. Boston, MA: Mathematical Association of America.

Yackel, E., & Rasmussen, C. (2002). Beliefs and norms in the mathematics classroom. In G. Leder, E. Pehkonen, & G. Toerner (Eds.), Beliefs: A hidden variable in mathematics education? (pp. 313-330). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.