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ETAP Faculty
Abbe Herzig is an assistant professor of mathematics
education at the University at Albany, State University
of New York. Her research concerns equity and social
justice in mathematics and science education at
all levels. She is at the beginning of a 6-year
research program concerning women and students of
color in the post-graduate mathematical sciences,
and is also investigating the low numbers of students
of color in undergraduate engineering. She has developed
courses and programs to help diverse populations
of young people discover the relevance of mathematics
and science to their interests and realities. She
worked for 12 years as a statistician, much of that
time for Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer
Reports magazine. She has consulted for the United
Nations, the Yale School of Medicine, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, and the Legal Defense Fund
of the NAACP.
Selected Publications
Herzig, Abbe H. (2005). Goals for Achieving Diversity in Mathematics Classrooms. Mathematics Teacher, 99(4) (Focus Issue on the Human Dimensions of Mathematical Diversity), pp. 253-259.
Herzig, Abbe H. (2004). Becoming mathematicians:
Women and students of color choosing and leaving
doctoral mathematics. Review of Educational Research,
74(2), pp. 171-214.
Herzig, Abbe H. (2004). "Slaughtering this
beautiful math": Graduate women choosing and
leaving mathematics. Gender and Education, 16(3),
pp. 379-395.
Herzig, Abbe H.. & Kung, David T. (2003). Cooperative
learning in calculus reform: What have we learned?
In Annie Selden, Ed Dubinsky, Guershon Harel, and
Fernando Hitt (Eds.), Research in Collegiate Mathematics
Education V. Washington, DC: American Mathematical
Society and Mathematical Association of America.
pp. 30-55.
Herzig, Abbe H.. (2002). Where have all the students
gone? Participation of doctoral students in authentic
mathematical activity as a necessary condition for
persistence toward the Ph.D. Educational Studies
in Mathematics, 50(2), pp. 177-212.
Presentations
Presentation at AMATYC, November 11 2005
Fall 2008
Course:
ETAP 652M, Class #3822
- Perspectives in Mathematics Education (3
credits)
Focus is on current research, theory and practice
in mathematics instruction for adolescents. Designed
for beginning and advanced classroom teachers, the
course promotes inquiry into major contemporary
issues concerning literature and instruction; developmental
needs, standards and assessments, methods for promoting
engaged and critical reading, and expanding literature
study to include diverse culture.
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