The American Education Research Association Annual Meeting will occur on April 13-16 in the windy city. Mathematics education graduate students and faculty will travel to Chicago, Illinois to share their findings at the world's largest gathering of education researchers.

The AERA conference is a place where educators showcase their innovative studies. This year the theme of the conference is Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth. Overall, the conference will be filled with rewarding experiences, ideas, engagement, networking, and professional advancement.

Several Michigan State University mathematics education graduate students and faculty are presenting at the AERA Annual Meeting this year. These individuals include Sofia Abreu, Saul Barbosa, Kristen Bieda, Kristen Doherty, Alden Edson, Ashley Fabry, Taren Going, Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Rileigh Luczak, Sheila Orr, Sunyoung Park, and Brady Tyburski.

Of special note, at this year’s AERA conference, PRIME Director Beth Herbel-Eisenmann will accept the Distinguished Scholar Award  from the Special Interest Group for Research in Mathematics Education (SIG/RME) of AERA. Beth is only the second woman ever to receive this prestigious award. The Distinguished Scholar Award “recognizes and celebrates the programmatic research of a distinguished scholar within the field of mathematics education.”

The award is presented to an individual who is active in mathematics education research and nominated by peers as exemplary according to two criteria. From the nomination criteria, the awardee will have:

• designed and carried out programmatic research that has been grounded empirically and has contributed to the theoretical development of the field;
• developed the research capacity of the field, as attested to by the existence of a “school of thought” or intellectual heritage whose constructs and results are used regularly.

Beth will accept this award on Friday, April 14^th, at the Research in Mathematics Education SIG Reception at 7:30 pm. Congratulations, Beth!

Schedules and information for the MSU math ed presentations appear below. Some additional details on one of the presentations is provided here.

Michigan State PRIME Graduate student, Rileigh Luczak elaborated on the research project information she will be presenting along with Kristen Bieda, Sheila Orr, and Brady Tyburski. Rileigh stated, “We will be sharing our work on how providing structured lesson planning support can better prepare preservice teachers (PSTs) to address moments of uncertainty in their teaching that arise when addressing relational aspects of teaching while working to achieve the mathematical lesson goals of the lesson.” Their presentation titled A Tool for Preparing Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers to Navigate Instructional Dilemmas During Whole-Class Discussions will occur on Saturday, April 15. Their poster is number 26 and will take place during the 2:50 – 4:20 pm CDT (3:50 - 5:20 pm EDT) block.

Written by

Liz Havey

 

MSU Presentations

Thursday, April 13

 9:50 – 11:20 am CDT (10:50 am – 12:20 pm EDT), Swissôtel Chicago, Floor: Lucerne Level, Alpine II

Curriculum Coherence Across Elementary Teachers’ Mathematics Lessons

Kristin Doherty, Michigan State University and Marcy Wood, University of Arizona

 

11:40 am – 1:10 pm CDT (12:40 – 2:10 pm EDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V

Teacher Network Use of Digital Curriculum Resources for Teaching Mathematics

Kristen Bieda,  Alden Edson, Ashley Fabry,  Taren Going, and Sunyoung Park, all from Michigan State University

 

Saturday, April 15

 8:00 – 9:30 am CDT (9:00 - 10:30 am EDT), Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: West Tower- Ballroom Level, San Francisco

A Framework for Capturing Mathematics Students’ Inscriptional Practices in Digital Collaborative Environments

Alden Edson,  Sunyoung Park, and Michael Quail, all from Michigan State University

 

2:50 – 4:20 pm CDT (3:50 – 5:20 pm EDT), Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: East Tower- Exhibit Level, Riverside West Exhibition Hall

Questioning Predominant Mathematics Toward Loving Possibilities (Poster 32)

Sofia Abreu and Saul Barbosa, both from Michigan State University

 

2:50 – 4:20 pm CDT (3:50 – 5:20 pm EDT), Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: East Tower- Exhibit Level, Riverside West Exhibition Hall

A Tool for Preparing Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers to Navigate Instructional Dilemmas During Whole-Class Discussions (Poster 26)

Kristen Bieda, Rileigh Luczak, , Sheila Orr,  and Brady Tyburski, all from Michigan State University

 

Sunday, April 16

 11:40 am – 1:10 pm CDT (12:40 – 2:10 pm EDT), Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: West Tower- Ballroom Level, San Francisco

Productive Disciplinary Engagement in Collaboration Work Within Mathematics Classrooms

Kristen Bieda, Alden Edson,  Taren Going, from Michigan State University and Merve Kursav, Dartmouth College