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Sofia Abreu

abreusof@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2019

Research interests: Sofia is interested in researching effective teaching with a holistic approach and the effect on students’ math interest. She is also interested in research at the undergraduate level, and wants to make math more accessible to all.


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José Saul Barbosa

barbos15@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2021

Research interests: Saul is interested in improving and better understanding the teaching of underrepresented undergraduate mathematics students, and to make mathematics more accessible, inclusive, and equitable for undergraduate students while allowing the opportunities to students of all levels of education to participate in research. A couple of his interests involve the use of language in the mathematics classrooms along with tutors and tutoring centers.


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Jose Contreras

contr121@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2023

Research interests: Jose's research interests are in equitable practices, ethnomathematics, and first-generation students in first-year undergraduate math courses. He wants to research the impact of public policy on learning environments and experiences of students who are often marginalized in math; equitable practices in K-16 mathematics education, governmental policy and its effect on math curriculum, non-western pedagogies, and ethnomathematics.


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Maria Cruciani

cruciani@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2023

Research interests: Maria's research interests include the teaching and learning of statistics, student-centered teaching, and inquiry-based learning. She would like to conduct research which measures the effects of these interventions for undergraduate mathematics and statistics students, as well as research that supports development of new curricular materials for K-16 statistics students.


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Catherine Davis

davis555@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2023

Research interests: Catherine's research interest is in researching, developing and teaching transition to proof curriculums. They also have a secondary interest in designing and teaching more accessible early undergraduate mathematics courses.


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Anthony Dickson

dickso90@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2021

Research interests:  Anthony is interested in researching and utilizing art-based and aesthetic approaches in (mathematics) education. This can allow us to see education in a new light and help students, especially those who have been failed by the traditional academic system, in their personal educational journeys.


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Ashley Fabry

fabryash@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2021

Research interests: Ashley would like to research ways to bring more relevance to math classrooms to improve students’ math identity and give them a sense of belonging and empowerment. She is also interested in literacy in mathematics and curriculum. She has been conducting teacher action research on how to use relevant, real world data to improve students’ math identities.


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Tim Hansen

hanse202@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2019

Research interests: Tim is interested in statistics/statistics education, and preparing future teachers—specifically, how people understand and interact with statistical ideas, statistical information and writing, including how their understanding develops over time. 


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Ahmad Wachidul Kohar

koharahm@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2023

Research interests: Ahmad has been conducting research on teacher knowledge and beliefs in mathematics and its teaching and learning and has developed teacher professional development programs on mathematical literacy and creative thinking. He is also interested in the level of context use in math tasks. He would like to conduct research on developing learning-trajectory-based interventions that can improve teachers' or pre-service teachers' problem-posing skills on context-based math tasks.


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Claire Lambert

clamb@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2022

Research interests: Claire is interested in different mechanisms, contexts and environments for learning and applying those to mathematics, as well as state and national policy issues related to the improvement of K-12 math ed. She is also interested in understanding how white teachers engage in culturally responsive pedagogy in the mathematics classroom.


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Rileigh Luczak

luczakri@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2018

Research interests: Rileigh's research interests include: student motivation, autonomy, and choices; social-cognitive development in mathematics; equity in the availability of quality math programs outside of the classroom; and the translation of concepts found in non-classroom math experiences to math classrooms and even to other subjects.


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Alicia Matthews-Johnson

matth325@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2020

Research interests: Alisha is interested in cognitive development and learning, with a goal of teaching college level developmental mathematics and providing instructional support for current and future mathematics teachers. 


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Michael Quail

quailmic@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2020

Research interests: Mike is interested in researching the mathematical knowledge required for teachers to effectively educate their students, and how students acquire an understanding of new mathematical concepts. 


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Miguel Rodriguez Mejia

rodr1190@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2023

Research interests: Miguel's research interests are centered on exploring ways to bring mathematical modeling to a particular educative context as a rual school or population with differential social conditions. He is also interested in exploring ethnomathematics, critical mathematics, socio-epistemological theory of mathematics education, and an onto-semiotic approach for research in math education.


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Sasha Rudow

rudowsas@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2023

Research interests: Sasha is interested in how students best learn mathematics, how inquiry-based learning influences mindset, and how a teacher can effect student learning.


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Ishan Santra

santrais@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2023

Research interests: Ishan is interested in the politics of mathematics education and society—addressing the critical political and social nature of mathematics school level assessments, and how they interact and reinforce the existing social structures. He works with informal learning spaces where 'space' is conceptualized based on certain practicing principles of care, healing, and freedom (un-)related to mathematics learning and teaching. His country of origin is, and the research spaces he has been a part of, are India. His previous research interests centered around professional practices of mathematics in different out-of-school setups and engaging with a persisting uneasiness with methods and methodological paradigms in (mathematics) education research. Some of his writings can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ishan-Santra.

 


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Valerie Sosnowski

sosnow39@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2023

Research interests: Valerie is interested in student-centered approaches to teaching and learning—more specifically, how the attitude of the student towards the teacher, the subject, their classmates, and their role or standing in the class affects their performance.


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Brady Tyburski

tybursk2@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2019

Research interests: Brady's research interests are primarily in undergraduate mathematics education and specifically the mathematical thinking of students in intermediate to upper level courses. In particular, he is interested in the connections students make between different types of functions and how they develop a so-called “unified” notion of function. He has also conducted research concerning calculus students’ understanding of fractions and improving the training of graduate teaching assistants.


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Samantha Wald

waldsama@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2023

Research interests: Samantha's research interests center around how culturally responsive teaching and equity-based practices impact the student-teacher and student-student relationship and how that affects motivation and classroom performance. She is also interested in the impact of these practices on disciplinary infractions in the classroom and overall student achievement.


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Kathryn Westby

westbyka@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2020

Research interests: Katie plans to conduct research related to positioning and authority in mathematics classrooms as they segregate—albeit not always physically—SWD (Students With Disabilities) and the effects of this positioning in the development of SWD’s identities.


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Sabrina Zarza

zarzasab@msu.edu

Began: Fall 2022

Research interests: Sabrina is interested in curriculum design, influencing math interest in the classroom, especially in communities where careers in STEM fields are lacking, and creating equitable classrooms.