PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
Best Paper Award: Leveraging real analysis to foster pedagogical practices
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Real analysis is frequently a required course for prospective secondary mathematics teachers. However, most teachers view real analysis as unnecessary and unrelated to the work of teaching secondary mathematics. The purposes of this paper are to (i) explore why real analysis, as it is conventionally taught, is not helpful to many teachers, (ii) present a new instructional model for how the course can be taught to increase its relevance, and (iii) present a case study in which our instructional model was implemented in a real analysis course and led to productive changes in teachers’ actual pedagogical practice.