About me
A little bit about me: I have 14 years of experience teaching math, and 8 of those are in Title 1 schools. I have a PhD in math education where I focused on how to consider student thinking and development of specific math concepts, as well as degrees in physics and math. I have taught elementary (3 years), junior high (1 year), high school (5 years), community college (1 year) college math (2 years), and pre-service teachers (2 years), so I am heavily focused on vertical articulation and thinking ahead to what students will need to do in the future. During COVID I was one of the 3 leaders of a project to help adults understand COVID-related statistics, which eventually got an NSF grant. My areas of interest and expertise are:
1) quantitative reasoning: how can we promote thinking about amounts/measurements, instead of disembodied numbers?
2) productive meanings: how can we focus on ways of teaching and thinking that will continue to be productive (useful) in higher grades?
3) structure: how can we encourage ways of calculating with non-count-by-1 strategies, and then use those strategies in algebra and above?
Most of all, I love working with teachers and students in underserved areas. I can't wait to meet you!
