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Erna Beth Yackel

Erna Beth Seecamp Yackel (February 13, 1939 – September 1, 2022) was an American college professor and math educator. She was a member of the faculty at Purdue University Northwest from 1984 to 2004.

Erna Beth Yackel
A smiling white woman with a set hairstyle and glasses, wearing a white blouse and a dark vest
Erna Beth Yackel, from a 1983 newspaper
Born
Erna Beth Seecamp

(1939-02-13)February 13, 1939
Portland, Oregon
DiedSeptember 1, 2022(2022-09-01) (aged 83)
Dyer, Indiana
Occupation(s)College professor, math educator
Children3, including Carolyn Yackel

Early life and education edit

Erna Beth was born in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of Carsten Herman Seecamp and Ida Julia Zepik Seecamp.[1][2] Both of her parents were from Canada; her father was a clergyman born in Germany, and the family lived in various rural places in Canada during her childhood. She earned a bachelor's degree at Dickinson State University in 1957, at age 18,[3] and a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Minnesota at age 21.[4] She later completed doctoral studies in mathematics education at Purdue University in 1984.[5] Her dissertation was titled "Characteristics of Problem Representation Indicative of Understanding in Mathematics Problem Solving".[6]

Career edit

Yackel taught statistics at Purdue while she was working on her doctorate, and for several years co-taught "Overcoming Math Anxiety", a noncredit class.[7][8][9] She was a member of the faculty at Purdue University Northwest from 1984 until she retired in 2004. Early in her career, she won a Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation.[5] She spoke at international conferences in her field. In 1992, she received the Golden Hawk Award from Dickinson State University.[3] In 2005, she received a Distinguished Education Alumni Award from Purdue University.[5]

Publications edit

Yackel published over 100 articles and book chapters in mathematics education, often on the subject of "sociomathematical norms", a concept she helped to develop.[5][10] She also co-wrote a textbook on math education.[11] Her work was published in scholarly journals including American Educational Research Journal,[12] Journal for Research in Mathematics Education,[11][13][14] Educational Studies in Mathematics,[15] Educational Psychologist,[16] The Journal of Mathematical Behavior,[17] The Arithmetic Teacher,[18] and Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education.[19]

  • "Research Into Practice: Experience, Problem Solving, and Discourse as Central Aspects of Constructivism" (1990, with Paul Cobb, Terry Wood, Graceann Merkel, and Michael T. Battista)[18]
  • "Change in Teaching Mathematics: A Case Study" (1991, Terry Wood and Paul Cobb)[12]
  • "A Constructivist Alternative to the Representational View of Mind in Mathematics Education" (1992, with Paul Cobb and Terry Wood)[14]
  • "Interaction and Learning in Mathematics Classroom Situations" (1992, with Paul Cobb and Terry Wood)[15]
  • "Constructivist, emergent, and sociocultural perspectives in the context of developmental research" (1996, with Paul Cobb)[16]
  • "Sociomathematical Norms, Argumentation, and Autonomy in Mathematics" (1996, with Paul Cobb)[11]
  • "Social and sociomathematical norms in an advanced undergraduate mathematics course" (2000, with Chris Rasmussen and Karen King)[17]
  • Symbolizing and Communicating in Mathematics Classrooms: Perspectives on Discourse, Tools, and Instructional Design (2000, with Paul Cobb and Kay McClain)[20]
  • "Mathematical tasks designed to foster a reconceptualized view of early arithmetic" (2007, with Norma Salem Elias and Diana Underwood)[19]
  • "Young Children’s Emotional Acts While Engaged in Mathematical Problem Solving" (2011, with Paul Cobb and Terry Wood)[21]
  • "The Development of Collaborative Dialogue Within Small Group Interactions" (2013, with Terry Wood)[22]
  • "Justification in the Context of High School: Co-constructing Content and Process" (2022, with Jill Newton)[23]

Personal life edit

Erna Beth married fellow academic James Yackel in 1960, while they were both graduate students in Minneapolis.[2][24] They had three children, including attorney Juliet Yackel,[25] computer science professor Jonathan Yackel, and Carolyn Yackel, a noted mathematician.[26][27]

She died at her home in Dyer, Indiana on September 1, 2022, at the age of 83.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ "Obituaries: Erna Yackel". Journal and Courier, via Legacy.com. September 7, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  2. ^ a b "Seecamp, Yackel Vows Exchanged". The La Crosse Tribune. 1960-08-23. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b "DSU honors grads, volunteers". The Bismarck Tribune. 1992-10-18. p. 42. Retrieved 2022-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Erna Yackel". The Times. 2022-09-07. pp. A8. Retrieved 2022-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Condolences for the family of Dr. Erna Yackel". Purdue University Northwest. 2022-09-08. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  6. ^ Yackel, Erna Beth Seecamp (1984). Characteristics Of Problem Representation Indicative Of Understanding In Mathematics Problem Solving. PhD dissertation, Purdue University.
  7. ^ Smith, Emily M. (1983-11-10). "Coping with a fear of numbers". Journal and Courier. p. 35. Retrieved 2022-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Jensen, Laurie (1981-08-13). "Purdue course will help combat math anxiety". Journal and Courier. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Ordovensky, Pat (1985-09-10). "Course helps people scared by numbers". Lansing State Journal. p. 21. Retrieved 2022-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Math classes stress explanation". The Indianapolis Star. 2002-11-03. p. 30. Retrieved 2022-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ a b c Yackel, Erna; Cobb, Paul (1996). "Sociomathematical Norms, Argumentation, and Autonomy in Mathematics". Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. 27 (4): 458–477. doi:10.2307/749877. ISSN 0021-8251. JSTOR 749877.
  12. ^ a b Wood, Terry; Cobb, Paul; Yackel, Erna (September 1991). "Change in Teaching Mathematics: A Case Study". American Educational Research Journal. 28 (3): 587–616. doi:10.3102/00028312028003587. ISSN 0002-8312. S2CID 145812129.
  13. ^ Cobb, Paul; Wood, Terry; Yackel, Erna; Nicholls, John; Wheatley, Grayson; Trigatti, Beatriz; Perlwitz, Marcella (1991). "Assessment of a Problem-Centered Second-Grade Mathematics Project". Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. 22 (1): 3–29. doi:10.2307/749551. ISSN 0021-8251. JSTOR 749551.
  14. ^ a b Cobb, Paul; Yackel, Erna; Wood, Terry (1992). "A Constructivist Alternative to the Representational View of Mind in Mathematics Education". Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. 23 (1): 2–33. doi:10.2307/749161. ISSN 0021-8251. JSTOR 749161.
  15. ^ a b Cobb, Paul; Yackel, Erna; Wood, Terry (1992). "Interaction and Learning in Mathematics Classroom Situations". Educational Studies in Mathematics. 23 (1): 99–122. doi:10.1007/BF00302315. ISSN 0013-1954. JSTOR 3482604. S2CID 143841760.
  16. ^ a b Cobb, Paul; Yackel, Erna (1996-06-01). "Constructivist, emergent, and sociocultural perspectives in the context of developmental research". Educational Psychologist. 31 (3–4): 175–190. doi:10.1080/00461520.1996.9653265. ISSN 0046-1520.
  17. ^ a b Yackel, Erna; Rasmussen, Chris; King, Karen (2000-07-01). "Social and sociomathematical norms in an advanced undergraduate mathematics course". The Journal of Mathematical Behavior. 19 (3): 275–287. doi:10.1016/S0732-3123(00)00051-1. ISSN 0732-3123.
  18. ^ a b Yackel, Erna; Cobb, Paul; Wood, Terry; Merkel, Graceann; Battista, Michael T. (1990-12-01). "Research Into Practice: Experience, Problem Solving, and Discourse as Central Aspects of Constructivism". The Arithmetic Teacher. 38 (4): 34–35. doi:10.5951/AT.38.4.0034.
  19. ^ a b Yackel, Erna; Underwood, Diana; Elias, Norma (December 2007). "Mathematical tasks designed to foster a reconceptualized view of early arithmetic". Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education. 10 (4–6): 351–367. doi:10.1007/s10857-007-9044-x. ISSN 1386-4416. S2CID 144396273.
  20. ^ Paul Cobb; Erna Yackel; Kay McClain, eds. (2000). Symbolizing and communicating in mathematics classrooms : perspectives on discourse, tools, and instructional design. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 0-585-31798-4. OCLC 45729289.
  21. ^ Cobb, Paul; Yackel, Erna; Wood†, Terry (2010), Sfard, Anna; Gravemeijer, Koeno; Yackel, Erna (eds.), "Young Children's Emotional Acts While Engaged in Mathematical Problem Solving", A Journey in Mathematics Education Research, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 41–71, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9729-3_5, ISBN 978-90-481-9728-6, retrieved 2022-12-10
  22. ^ Wood, Terry; Yackel, Erna (2013-11-05), Steffe, Leslie P.; Wood, Terry (eds.), "The Development of Collaborative Dialogue Within Small Group Interactions", Transforming Children's Mathematics Education (0 ed.), Routledge, pp. 258–266, doi:10.4324/9780203052372-36, ISBN 978-0-203-05237-2, retrieved 2022-12-10
  23. ^ Newton, Jill; Yackel, Erna (2022), Bieda, Kristen N.; Conner, AnnaMarie; Kosko, Karl W.; Staples, Megan (eds.), "Justification in the Context of High School: Co-constructing Content and Process", Conceptions and Consequences of Mathematical Argumentation, Justification, and Proof, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 159–175, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-80008-6_14, ISBN 978-3-030-80007-9, retrieved 2022-12-10
  24. ^ "Erna Seecamp". Star Tribune. 1960-01-17. p. 70. Retrieved 2022-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ Personette, Jessica (2003-08-04). "Juliet Yackel still defends Williams after 11 years". The Times. p. 38. Retrieved 2022-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Yackel, Carolyn; belcastro, sarah-marie (January 2022). "Journal for Mathematics and the Arts Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Mathematics of Fiber Arts". Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. 12 (1): 560–561. doi:10.5642/jhummath.202201.43.
  27. ^ "Carolyn Yackel | Faculty and Staff | Mercer University". College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
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