UGA Department of Mathematics and Science Education

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Doctoral student Jenna Menke is looking to understand how prepared graduates of UGA's mathematics education program feel to teach upon graduation and what aspects of UGA's mathematics education program contribute to this preparedness. If you graduated UGA's secondary mathematics education program between Spring 2015 and Spring 2018 and would like to participate, please watch the following 2-minute video, which explains what a Q sort is and how to complete it https://youtu.be.../kswd0RFKlfI Then you can go to the following link to complete the Q sort. The Q sort should take approximately 30 minutes to complete. https://application.qsortware.net/user/jennamenke/ Thank you for your participation!

Congratulations to Doctoral Student Biyao Liang and faculty member Kevin Moore on their new publication in MTL. They extend their recent work to explore a student's partitioning activity as it relates to their covariational reasoning. https://www.tandfonline.com//full/10/10986065.2020.1789930

Check out the June 2020 issue of Mathematics Teacher: Learning & Teaching PK12! Dr. Allyson Hallman-Thrasher and Dr. Denise A. Spangler discuss purposeful questioning in the context of high cognitive-demand tasks. https://pubs.nctm.org//journals/mtlt/113/6/article-p446.xml

Congratulations to Carlos Nicolas Gomez and AnnaMarie Conner for their most recent publication in JRME, in which they explore the influence of Cooney, Shealy, and Arvold's infamous Belief Structures work. https://pubs.nctm.org/vi/journals/jrme//4/article-p468.xml

Congratulations to Dan Capps on winning the University of Georgia Mary Frances Early College of Education Ocie T. Dekle Excellence in Teaching Award!