Math Ed Podcast

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

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

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

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 Psyc

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

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

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.co

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

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

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

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_44-07_00 List of episodes

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 Jenny's Professional Webpage https://education.uoregon.edu/directory/faculty/all/jruef List of Math Ed Podcast episodesTeaching Math Teaching podcast

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/DC2023_Annual_Program.pdf List of episodes

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

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 Math Ed Podcast

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

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

Record a 3-6 minute audio summary of some math ed research, either your own or something you've read that you think is worth sharing. Send your audio file to ottensam@att.net and put Math Ed Digest in the subject line.Within your audio summary, please introduce yourself and also give credit to all co-authors of the work. To hear examples of past digest episodes, see the list of episodes and look for those marked Digest.

Anne-Sophie Supply from the University of Leuven (Belgium) discusses the article, "It is probably a pattern: Does spontaneous focusing on regularities in preschool predict reasoning about randomness four years later?" published in Educational Studies in Mathematics, Volume 112. Co-authors: Wijns, Van Dooren, & OnghenaArticle URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-022-10187-9 List of episodes

Gladys Krause from William & Mary, Melissa Adams-Corral from U Texas Rio Grande Valley, and Luz Maldonado Rodríguez from Texas State discuss their article, "Developing awareness around language practices in the elementary bilingual mathematics classroom," published by the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, Volume 15. Article URL (free): https://jume-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/JUME/article/view/462  Gladys's professional webpage Melissa's professional website Luz's professional webpage List of episodes