MSU at 2025 RUME Conference
The 27th Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Conference, the 2025 RUME Conference, is hosted by the Virginia Tech Department of Mathematics in Alexandria, Virginia (the Metro Washington DC area) from February 27th to March 1st. This year's conference theme revolves around results of current research, contemporary theoretical perspectives and research paradigms, and innovative methodologies and analytic approaches as they pertain to the study of undergraduate mathematics education.
This conference provides a platform for researchers in collegiate mathematics education to present their findings on topics related to the learning and teaching of undergraduate mathematics. It will focus on several key themes: current research outcomes, modern theoretical frameworks and research paradigms, and innovative methodologies and analytical techniques in the field of undergraduate mathematics education. The program will feature plenary sessions, contributed paper presentations, and preliminary paper discussions, which will be offered both in-person and virtually.
Presenters at RUME from the MSU math ed group include Jose Contreras, Catherine Davis, Sara Elakesh, Taylor McNeill, and Kristen Vroom.
Sessions of MSU math ed faculty and graduate students presenting at the RUME conference are highlighted below:
MSU Presentations
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Taylor McNeill
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM, Wright Room
“I only have one Black student… With a sample size of one, it’s hard to say”: A critical analysis of epistemology in mathematicians’ racial sensemaking
Kristen Vroom, with co-speaker from University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
2:30 PM – 3:20 PM, Bell Room
Eliciting Students’ Informal Ideas about Series: The Partial Sum Sequence Game
Friday, February 28, 2025
Catherine Davis
9:10 AM – 9:40 AM, Wright Room
Does Everything Have to be Gay? Queer Pedagogy in the Undergraduate STEM Classroom
Jose Contreras, with co-speakers from San Diego State University and Cal Poly Pomona
1:40 PM – 2:10 PM, Wright Room
Meta-Analysis of How Race is Discussed in RUME Proceedings from 2019 – 2024
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Sara Elakesh, with co-speakers from Cal Poly Pomona
11:30 AM – Noon, Whitney Room
“It all started when...”: Insights from Students' Math Life Stories
