This episode contains summaries of the articles in the Education Sciences special issue on incremental PD for mathematics teachers. All articles are open access in this special issue and available on the journal website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/YBV49M7Q71 It has also been collected into a book , as well, from MDPI, if you prefer either the free PDF of the collected volume or a physical book . [1:35] Otten, S., de Araujo, Z., & Candela, A. G. (2025). The benefits...
Jul 04, 2025•53 min•Season 2025Ep. 2506
Julie Nurnberger-Haag returns to the podcast to discuss the article, " Tools, tricks, and topics teachers use for integer arithmetic ," published in the Electronic Journal for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (Vol. 29). Co-author: Scott Courtney Article URL: https://ejrsme.icrsme.com/article/view/23771 Julie's Google Scholar page List of episodes...
Jun 03, 2025•45 min•Season 2025Ep. 2505
Yusuke Uegatani from Hiroshima University High School (Fukuyama, Japan) discusses the article " Decentralising mathematics: Mutual development of spontaneous and mathematical concepts via informal reasoning ," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics (Vol. 118). Co-authors: Hiroki Otani, Taro Fujita. Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-024-10366-w Yusuke's ORCID scholar page List of episodes...
May 22, 2025•14 min•Season 2025Ep. 2504
Alina Kadluba from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) discusses the article, " How much C is in TPACK? A systematic review on the assessment of TPACK in mathematics ," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics (Vol. 118). Co-authors: Anselm Strohmaier, Christian Schons, Andreas Obersteiner. Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-024-10357-x Alina's professional webpage List of episodes...
May 12, 2025•22 min•Season 2025Ep. 2503
In this episode, Sam is joined by two separate guests. Sarah Powell (University of Texas) describes the origins and aims of the Science of Math efforts, and Rachel Lambert (University of California, Santa Barbara) shares some critiques and concerns about the Science of Math as it is currently instantiated. Introduction (0:00:00) Origins with Sarah (0:03:12) Critiques with Rachel (0:22:26) Responses with Sarah (1:10:42) The Science of Math website https://www.thescienceofmath.com/ Sarah's profess...
Apr 13, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Season 2025Ep. 2502
Alan Schoenfeld from the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his career in mathematics education research. Alan's professional webpage Alan's Google Scholar page List of episodes
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Season 2025Ep. 2501
Jodie Hunter from Massey University (New Zealand) discusses the article, " Weaving together the threads of Indigenous knowledge and mathematics ," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics , Volume 116. Co-author: Roberta Hunter Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-023-10256-7 Jodie's professional webpage: https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=463201 List of episodes...
Jan 03, 2025•36 min•Season 2024Ep. 2414
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 homewor...
Dec 24, 2024•23 min•Season 2024Ep. 2413
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/ List of episodes...
Dec 03, 2024•23 min•Season 2024Ep. 2412
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 List of episodes...
Nov 05, 2024•22 min•Season 2024Ep. 2411
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 28, 2024•31 min•Season 2024Ep. 2410
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...
Oct 22, 2024•48 min•Season 2024Ep. 2409
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...
Oct 07, 2024•28 min•Season 2024Ep. 2408
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...
Jul 13, 2024•30 min•Season 2024Ep. 2407
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 ...
Jun 28, 2024•36 min•Season 2024Ep. 2406
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/ ) ...
Jun 13, 2024•35 min•Season 2024Ep. 2405
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 Educati...
Mar 31, 2024•36 min•Season 2024Ep. 2404
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...
Mar 20, 2024•24 min•Season 2024Ep. 2403
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...
Feb 26, 2024•36 min•Season 2024Ep. 2402
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.,...
Feb 10, 2024•23 min•Season 2024Ep. 2401
Higinio Dominguez from Michigan State University discusses the article, "Young philosophers: Fifth-grade students animating the concept of space," published in ZDM Mathematics Education . Co-authors: Abreu and Peralta. Higinio's professional webpage https://education.msu.edu/people/dominguez-higinio/ List of episodes...
Dec 30, 2023•33 min•Season 2023Ep. 2313
Paul Cobb from Vanderbilt University discusses his career in mathematics education research. Paul's Google Scholar page https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7bcDRVEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra List of episodes
Dec 19, 2023•53 min•Season 2023Ep. 2312
Christa Jackson from Saint Louis University discusses the book series that she is editing for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Powerful Mathematicians Who Changed the World . Christa's professional webpage https://www.slu.edu/education/faculty/christa-jackson.php NCTM's bookstore https://www.nctm.org/Search/?query=powerful%20mathematicians List of episodes...
Dec 10, 2023•18 min•Season 2023Ep. 2311
Robert Q. Berry III from the University of Arizona delivers his plenary at PME-NA in Reno, NV. "Preparing teachers to engage students for equitable mathematics education." Robert's Professional Webpage https://provost.arizona.edu/person/robert-q-berry-iii YouTube video of this presentation https://youtu.be/jb9iPyalz4E?si=PEiPzb79rzlbBMre PME-NA Proceedings http://www.pmena.org/proceedings/ Recap of the other PME-NA plenaries https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mathed/episodes/2023-10-16T09_15_44-...
Nov 27, 2023•15 min•Season 2023Ep. 2310
Kathy Sun from Santa Clara University and Jennifer Ruef from the University of Oregon discuss their article, " Examining and conceptualizing the relationship between teacher praise and the co-construction of mathematical competence in classrooms ," published in the Journal of Mathematical Behavior , Volume 71. Article URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0732312323000354 Kathy's Professional Webpage https://www.scu.edu/ecp/faculty/educationfaculty/kathy-liu-sun-phd/sun.html...
Nov 20, 2023•38 min•Season 2023Ep. 2309
This episode includes information about the 3 plenary presentations at the 2023 NCTM Annual Meeting and 2 summaries from presenters -- Gail Burrill from Michigan State University, Amanda Huffman-Hayes from Purdue University, and Lindsay Gold from the University of Dayton. The NCTM Annual Meeting and Research Conference were held in Washington, DC. NCTM Website https://www.nctm.org/ 2023 Program https://www.nctm.org/uploadedFiles/Conferences_and_Professional_Development/Annual_Meetings/DC2023/DC2...
Nov 09, 2023•13 min•Season 2023Ep. 2308
Summaries of PME-NA presentations by Mitch Nathan, James Middleton, Lisa Lunney Borden, José Luis Cortina, Theodore Chao, Amy Parks, Melissa Gresalfi, Nathaniel Bryan, Naomi Jessup, Tran Templeton, and others. PME-NA 2023 was held in Reno, NV, led by Teruni Lamberg. http://www.pmena.org/ http://www.pmena.org/proceedings/ List of episodes...
Oct 16, 2023•18 min•Season 2023Ep. 2307
Jeffrey Choppin from the University of Rochester discusses the article, " The role of instructional materials in the relationship between the official curriculum and the enacted curriculum ," published by Mathematical Thinking and Learning , Volume 24. Co-authors: Amy Roth McDuffie, Corey Drake, Jon Davis Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10986065.2020.1855376 Jeff's Professional Webpage: https://www.warner.rochester.edu/directory/jeffrey-choppin List of episodes of the M...
Sep 25, 2023•32 min•Season 2023Ep. 2306
Michael Little-Crow from Arizona State University discusses his dissertation study, "Professional Development for Math Educators Podcast: Amplifying, Hearing, and Understanding the Voice of Community Educators," under the direction of Andrea Weinburg. Mike's Professional Webpage https://search.asu.edu/profile/1722986 As the Little Crow Flies podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/as-the-little-crow-flies/id1643415571 List of episodes of the Math Ed Podcast...
Jun 26, 2023•38 min•Season 2023Ep. 2305
Julie Nurnberger-Haag discusses the article " Simplest shapes first! But let's use cognitive science to reconceive and specify what "simple" means ," co-authored with Clarissa Thompson and published in Mind, Brain, and Education , Volume 17. Article URL (open access) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mbe.12338 Julie's ResearchGate Reach out to Julie directly julie.nurnberger.haag@gmail.com List of episodes...
May 11, 2023•36 min•Season 2023Ep. 2304
