MSU Math Ed at 2023 RUME Conference

Release Date: Feb 15, 2023
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RUME logo The 2023 Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME) Conference will occur on February 23-25. This conference will be held in a hybrid format so individuals will have the option to attend the conference online or travel to Omaha, Nebraska to share their work.

The conference is focused on the following themes: 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.

Michigan State University faculty and graduate students attending and presenting at the RUME Conference are Sarah Castle, Jihye Hwang, Brady Tyburski, and Kristen Vroom.

Jihye Hwang shared, “My talk will be about one multilingual student’s experience in her mathematics education to talk about existing deficit perspective toward multilingual students in mathematics education. In the narrative built using narrative inquiry, I share how Jia used both of her languages, Chinese and English, used as resources in her mathematics learning and how difficult environment can be for multilingual students during the groupwork.”

This session is titled One Multilingual International Student’s Experience in Collegiate Mathematics Classrooms and it will occur on Saturday, February 25^th from 9:50 – 10:20 am.

Kristen Vroom will be giving two different presentations that will both take place on Thursday February 23^rd. She said, “I will be presenting work from the ASPIRE in Math project with some colleagues. Part of this project involves designing curriculum materials that engages students in mathematical practices (e.g., defining) to support them in their transition to advanced mathematics.”

Her first presentation is titled What are instructors doing to initiate refinements of students’ definitions? Kristen stated, "We started this project because it is challenging for teachers to build on student thinking in general and we have noticed (from our own experiences, as well as talking with other instructors) this to be especially the case when refining students’ definitions. We will share what we learned from analyzing classroom-level data of instructors across four courses who guided their students’ refinements of one definition."

Kristen continued, "The second presentation is a preliminary report titled Ongoing Efforts to Develop an Assessment Tool for Students’ Participation in Defining. This project was motivated by a practical problem we faced as we developed ASPIRE in Math curriculum materials - the lack of an appropriate assessment tool to reveal students’ activity in mathematical practices. During the talk we will discuss how Model Eliciting Activities guided our (re)design of such an assessment for the case of defining.”

Kristen Vroom's Thursday presentations will be from 2:50 – 3:20 pm and from 4:00 – 4:30 pm.

Below is a detailed schedule of all the Michigan State University presentations that will take place at the RUME Conference.

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Liz Havey