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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
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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 List of past episodes
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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 List of past episodes
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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/  List of episodes
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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  List of episodes
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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) Views expressed here are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the perspectives of the National Science Foundation.List of episodes
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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 List of past episodes
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Mar 20, 2024 • 24min

Episode 2403: Melissa Gallagher - adaptive teaching and math on social media

Melissa Gallagher from the University of Houston (soon to be at U.S. Math Recovery Council) discusses the article, "Adaptive teaching in mathematics: A review of the literature," published in Educational Review, Volume 7. Co-authors: Parsons and Vaughn. Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00131911.2020.1722065 Math with Melissa website https://www.mathwithmelissa.org/  Look for Math with Melissa on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube List of episodes
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Feb 26, 2024 • 36min

Episode 2402: Nathalie Sinclair - methodological experiments with embodied number

Nathalie Sinclair from Simon Fraser University in Canada discusses her article, "Knowing as remembering: Methodological experiments in embodied experiences of number," published in Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education.  Article URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40751-023-00132-7 Nathalie's professional webpage https://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/nsinclair.html  List of episodes
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Feb 10, 2024 • 23min

Episode 2401: Digest 11 - critical math consciousness, algebra placement, African American perspectives, math and science YouTubers

In this digest episode we hear summaries from Kelly Demirjian, Joshua Pope, Loella Lapat, and Samuel Otten about the following articles: [01:00] Stephan, M., Register, J., Reinke, L., Robinson, C., Pugalenthi, P., & Pugalee, D. (2021). People use math as a weapon: Critical mathematics consciousness in the time of COVID-19. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 108(3), 513-532. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-021-10062-z [06:38] Faulkner, V. N., Stiff, L. V., Marshall, P. L., Nietfeld, J., & Crossland, C. L. (2014). Race and teacher evaluations as predictors of algebra placement. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 45(3), 288-311. https://pubs.nctm.org/view/journals/jrme/45/3/article-p288.xml [11:10] Brand, B. R., Glasson, G. E., & Green, A. M. (2006). Sociocultural factors influencing students' learning in science and mathematics: An analysis of the perspectives of African American students. School Science and Mathematics, 106(5), 228-236. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1949-8594.2006.tb18081.x [16:08] Amorós-Poveda, L., & Bernárdez-Gómez, A. (2023). Edutuber and Gender in STEM. Education Sciences, 14(1), 40. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14/1/40 Special Issue on Incremental PD for Math Teachers, accepting articles through August 31: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/YBV49M7Q71 List of episodes

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