FAQ
Q: How can I subscribe?
A: Subscriptions should be sent to the Managing Editor at the address below, and may be paid by cheque drawn on a U.S. or Canadian bank, or by international money order. Payments can also be made by credit card, with a small surcharge. See FLM Board and Aims for current subscription rates. Please use the payment form.
For further information about subscriptions please contact:
Elaine Simmt, FLM Managing Editor,
382-Education South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G5
flm2@ualberta.ca
Q: What should I know if I want to write something for FLM?
A: Here are some suggestions:
"Mathematics education" should be interpreted to mean the whole field of human ideas and activities that affect, or could affect, the learning of mathematics. It draws upon a number of more established cognate disciplines, including psychology, mathematics, sociology, linguistics and philosophy, each of which has its own phenomena of interest and parallel structures, modes on enquiry, conceptual tools and methodological norms, structures of knowledge and means of validation. Articles about mathematics or about psychology, for example, are welcomed provided their content bears on the learning of mathematics. This might be achieved directly, or indirectly through offering a significant perspective to teachers of mathematics. The journal has space for articles which attempt to bring together ideas from several sources and show their relation to the theories or practices of mathematics education. It is a place where ideas may be tried out and presented for discussion.
Reports of particular research projects may be submitted, but the editor also solicits articles which survey an area of research or which attempt to interpret or evaluate some published research. Reports of informal research, especially from the classroom, are as welcome as reports which meet the usual professional criteria.
Articles falling outside the categories mentioned about are also acceptable if, in the editor's judgement, they make some contribution to understanding mathematics learning or to promoting mathematics learning.
Articles should generally be within the range 2,500 - 5,000 words. Longer articles, if accepted, may be published in two or more parts. Comments on already-published articles should generally contain less than 2,000 words. Short topics or communications, less than article-length, may be submitted if they conform to the general aims and style of the journal.
Writers should initially send an electonic version of their contributions, typed, preferably Macintosh MS-WORD, with generous spacing and margins to flm@ualberta.ca. Diagrams, tables, etc. should be prepared in a form suitable for photographic reproduction, with or without reduction in size. Unusual words and notations should be indicated and explained. Notes, references and bibliography should be collected at the end of the contribution. Current house style may be inferred from the articles in 23(3) and later issues.
Contributions may be submitted in English or French (the English maybe American, British, or hybrid). Abstracts should be submitted for use in our web index, but will not appear in the journal. For inclusion in later issues, responses to articles and editor's invitations to write need to reach flm@ualberta.ca by December 5, (issue 1); April 5, (issue 2); August 5, (issue 3);
Q: Can I reprint an FLM article on my web site / anthology / lunch box?
A: If you are interested in reprinting articles that appear in FLM, please contact the managing editor.
Q: Will you print an announcement of my upcoming conference / book / party?
A: FLM does not print announcements. To reach a wide audience of mathematics educators we suggest you join one or more email list servers that serve the mathematics education community. Two possibilities are: http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/maths-education and http://education.deakin.edu.au/resources/maths_ed/HomePages/DiscussGroup.html.
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