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Hyman Bass

Professor, School of Education; Samuel Eilenberg Distinguished University Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Hyman Bass's mathematical research publications cover broad areas of algebra with connections to geometry, topology, and number theory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bass was president of the American Mathematical Society and of the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction. He has been collaborating with Deborah Loewenberg Ball and her research group at the University of Michigan since 1997 on the mathematical knowledge and resources entailed in the teaching of mathematics at the elementary level.

Bass is interested in algebra/algebraic geometry and mathematics education. Chief fields of his research interest are: in mathematics: algebraic K-theory; number theory; group theory (geometric methods); algebraic geometry. In mathematics education: subject matter knowledge entailed in teaching; practice-based research on teaching and learning; teacher education; reasoning and proof in school mathematics; analysis of curriculum materials. His main research activities currently are in math education, focused largely on the mathematical knowledge demands of school teaching, how this can be measured, and the design of opportunities for teachers to gain such knowledge (in teacher education courses and in professional development). In mathematics he still working on a project on flat families of reductive group actions on affine spaces, and also some arithmetic questions in combinatorial geometry.

Bass teaches courses in the following program(s): Mathematics Education;Teaching and Learning.

Affiliations

• Educational Studies

Committees

• Promotion & Tenure Committee
• Capital Projects Committee

Research Affiliations

• Mathematics Teaching and Learning to Teach Project
• Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics
• mod4

Projects

• Using Practice as a Site to Learning Mathematics for Teaching: Developing Materials, Approaches, and Professional Community
• Design, Validation, and Dissemination of Measures on Content Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics
• Dev-TE@M

Grants

2/1/2003 - 1/1/2009	Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics Granting Agency: U Georgia CLT
9/1/2010 - 8/31/2011	Contextual Research and Large Empirical Research - Developing the theory of mathematical knowledge for teaching by investigating its nature, measurement, and growth Granting Agency: National Science Foundation
2/1/1998 - 1/1/2001	Crossing Boundaries: Probing the Interplay of Mathematics and Pedagogy in Elementary Mathematics Teaching Granting Agency: Spencer Foundation
2/1/2003 - 1/1/2009	Design, Validation, and Dissemination of Measures of Content Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics Granting Agency: National Science Foundation
2/9/2008 - 1/9/2011	Developing Modules for the Preparation of Elementary Mathematics Specialists Granting Agency: Cisco Learning Institute
9/1/2011 - ongoing	Developing Teaching Expertise in K-5 Mathematics Granting Agency: National Science Foundation
2/1/2001 - 1/1/2005	Developing a Practice-Based Theory of Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching Granting Agency: National Science Foundation
2/1/1999 - 1/1/2002	Geometric methods in group theory Granting Agency: National Science Foundation
8/6/2010 - 8/6/2010	MET/TK: Design and Development Granting Agency: Educational Testing Service/Gates Foundation
2/10/2009 - 8/6/2010	MET/TK: Planning, Delivery, and Analysis Granting Agency: Educational Testing Service/Gates Foundation
1/1/2009 - 12/31/2011	Teaching Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Adapting Local Materials for Use in Diverse Institutions and Settings Granting Agency: National Science Foundation
8/15/2010 - ongoing	The Design of Research-in-Instruction Laboratories Granting Agency: National Science Foundation
2/1/2005 - 1/1/2009	Using Practice as a Site to Learn Mathematics for Teaching Granting Agency: National Science Foundation

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