

Math Ed Podcast
Samuel Otten
Interviews with mathematics education researchers about recent studies. Hosted by Samuel Otten, University of Missouri.www.mathedpodcast.comProduced by Fibre Studios
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Dec 24, 2024 • 23min
Episode 2413: 200th Episode Special - Samuel Otten Retrospective
For this 200th official episode of the podcast, Samuel Otten from the University of Missouri discusses the main ideas from some of his most highly-cited articles and also from some of his "underrated" articles.
Sam's website
IJRME article on video vs live lesson observations: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1743727X.2024.2350068
JMB article on citations of Stein and Lane (1996): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0732312316301109
MTMS article on going over homework: https://pubs.nctm.org/view/journals/mtms/21/2/article-p98.xml
MT article on why we need to learn math: https://pubs.nctm.org/view/journals/mt/105/1/article-p20.xml [FREE PDF VERSION]
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Dec 3, 2024 • 23min
Episode 2412: Drew Nucci - teacher care online and AI tools for teachers
Drew Nucci (dnucci@wested.org) from WestEd discusses his article, "The role of an online learning environment in teacher care for secondary mathematics students," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics, Volume 117. We also discuss Colleague.AI, which is a curriculum and assessment tool for teachers.
WestEd's website
Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-024-10350-4
Colleague.AI: https://www.colleague.ai/
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Nov 5, 2024 • 22min
Episode 2411: Hanan Alyami - radian concepts and prospective mathematics teachers
Hanan Alyami from Purdue University Fort Wayne discusses her article, "Defining radian: Provoked concept definitions of radian angle measure," published in Research in Mathematics Education (Vol. 25).
Article URL: https://journals.scholarsportal.info/details/14794802/v25i0002/154_drpcdoram.xml
Hanan's Professional Webpage: https://www.pfw.edu/about-pfw/who-we-are/directories/hanan-alyami
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Oct 28, 2024 • 31min
Episode 2410: Priya V. Prasad - instructional support for college algebra instructors
Priya V. Prasad from the University of Texas at San Antonio discusses her NSF-project working with college algebra instructors and previews some research that will be shared at the PME-NA conference in a report entitled "Factors contributing to instructional shifts at the college level," co-author Jessica Gehrtz.Priya's professional webpage https://sciences.utsa.edu/faculty/profiles/prasad-priya.html List of episodes

Oct 22, 2024 • 48min
Episode 2409: Jonathan Bostic - math ed measures and validity
Jonathan Bostic from Bowling Green State University discusses MathEdMeasures.org and the work of the VM2ED (Validity Evidence for Measurement in Mathematics Education) project, with Erin Krupa and others.
https://MathEdMeasures.org/
Jonathan's professional webpage
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Oct 7, 2024 • 28min
Episode 2408: Sigal Rotem - critical incidents and prospective teacher noticing
Sigal-Hava Rotem from Utrecht University (The Netherlands) discusses the article, "Using critical incidents as a tool for promoting prospective teachers' noticing during reflective discussions in a fieldwork-based university course," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics (Vol. 117). Co-authors: Potari and Psycharis
Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-024-10336-2
Sigal's professional webpage
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Jul 13, 2024 • 30min
Episode 2407: David Coffey and Kathryn Coffey - Designing Math Adventures
Dave Coffey and Kathy Coffey from Grand Valley State University discuss their new book, Designing Math Adventures: Using Design Thinking to Support the Teaching and Learning of K-8 Mathematics, available through Amazon.
Book URL: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Math-Adventures-Thinking-Mathematics/dp/B0D36HKT3X/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2
Dave's Delta Scape Blog http://deltascape.blogspot.com/
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Jun 28, 2024 • 36min
Episode 2406: Travis Weiland - statistics education research and teacher preparation
Travis Weiland from the University of Houston (but soon to be at UNC-Charlotte) discusses the chapter "Preparing teachers of statistics: A critical read of standards, review of past research, and future directions" published in The AMTE Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education (Vol. 5), with chapter co-authors Chris Engledowl and Susan Cannon.
Book available from Information Age https://www.infoagepub.com/products/The-AMTE-Handbook-of-Mathematics-Teacher-Education-Vol-5
Travis's Google Scholar Page https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=smeqrnwAAAAJ&hl=en
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Jun 13, 2024 • 35min
Episode 2405: Practice-Driven Professional Development Project - Incremental PD
Zandra de Araujo (University of Florida), Amber Candela (University of Missouri, St Louis), and Paul Wonsavage (University of Florida) join Sam Otten (University of Missouri, Columbia) to discuss their NSF-funded project entitled Practice-Driven Professional Development (PDPD). They share thoughts on why they are pursuing an incremental approach rather than a transformational approach in supporting math teachers.
PDPD web articles about incremental PD (URL: https://practicedrivenpd.com/blog/)
Mathematics Teacher PD: A Paradox and a Contradiction Walk into the Classroom
Why Transformational PD Hasn't Worked at Scale
Why Incremental PD is Worth Trying
Sample nudges shared at AMTE 2024 (more coming in Fall 2024)
PDPD;s PME-NA article on our foundations of incremental PD
Jon Star's essay on incremental changes in instruction
Call for submissions to the special issue on incremental PD in Education Sciences (URL: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/YBV49M7Q71)
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Mar 31, 2024 • 36min
Episode 2404: Luis Leyva - Queer of Color Justice in STEM
Luis Leyva from Vanderbilt University discusses his article, "Queer of Color Justice in Undergraduate Mathematics Education," published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 71.
Article URL https://doi.org/10.1090/noti2875
Episode 1701 with Luis https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mathed/episodes/2017-01-04T12_03_01-08_00
Other related work
Black queer students’ counter-stories of invisibility in undergraduate STEM as a white, cisheteropatriarchal space (American Educational Research Journal, 2022): https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312221096455
A queer of color challenge to neutrality in undergraduate STEM pedagogy as a white, cisheteropatriarchal space (Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2022): https://doi.org/10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.2022036586
Undergraduate Latin* queer students’ intersectionality of mathematics experiences: A Borderlands perspective (Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022): https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED630414.pdf
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