PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2016
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The complement of RUME: What’s missing from our research?
Page: 1288
The Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME) community has generated a substantial literature base on student thinking about ideas in the undergraduate curriculum. However, not all topics in the curriculum have been the object of research. Reasons for this include the relatively young age of RUME work and the fact that research topics are not necessarily driven by the content of the undergraduate curriculum. What topics remain largely untouched? We give a preliminary analysis, with a particular focus on concepts in the standard calculus sequence. Uses for this kind of analysis of the literature base in the education of novice researchers and potential future directions for further analyses are discussed.