MSU Math Ed at 2024 AERA Conference

Mathematics education faculty and doctoral students will gather to present their research and findings at this year’s annual American Education Research Association (AERA) conference. The 2024 AERA conference will be taking place on April 11-14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Math ed faculty and doctoral students presenting include Kristen Bieda, Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Jermaine Howell, Claire Lambert, Sheila Orr, Lee Melvin Peralta, Kathryn Westby, and Sabrina Zarza.  

This year’s theme is “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action.” This theme prompts education researchers to participate and contribute to a global conversation on race and racism and to think deeply about personally, lived experiences and how they are connected to work, and research being done.

Director of PRIME, Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, will have two presentations at this year's conference. Her first presentation, which will take place on Friday, April 12 as part of the Friday Roundtable Sessions is titled Exploring Incongruities Between Local Maps, Data, and Students’ Sense of Place and outlines how “the use of local data in statistics and mathematics environments can introduce unexpected challenges." This presentation will take place from 7:45-9:15 am at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Level 200, Exhibit Hall B.  

Her second presentation is based on the research and work with her Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project. Beth is co-PI along with Joanne Marciano from the Department of Teacher Education. Several MSU students contributed to this research being presented, including math ed doctoral student, Sabrina Zarza. The presentation is on Sunday at 11:25 am and is titled “I Don’t Have a Place, I have People”: Fostering Neplantlero in Welcoming and Affirming Environments. 

Schedules and information for the MSU math education presentations are provided below.

Written by

Ansley Duke

 

MSU Math Ed Presentations

Friday, April 12 

 

 7:45 – 9:45am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B 

 Exploring Incongruities Between Local Maps, Data, and Students’ Sense of Place 

 Beth Herbel-Eisenmann and Lee Melvin M. Peralta, Michigan State University, and others 

 

11:25am – 12:55pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B 

 What Might a Disabled Education Research Paradigm Support? Learning About Research from Disabled Researchers 

 Katie Westby, Michigan State University 

 

3:05 – 4:35pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A 

Elementary Mathematics Teachers’ Perspective of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to Support and Enhance Black Students’ Learning (Poster 27) 

Jermaine R. Howell, Michigan State University 

 

Saturday, April 13 

9:35 – 11:05am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A 

Educational Research Dissemination and Coloniality: Imagining a Decolonial Conference (Poster 13)

Claire Lambert and Sabrina Zarza, Michigan State University

 

9:35 – 11:05am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 105A 

 Conceptualizing Mentoring for Critical Math Consciousness  

 Sheila Orr, Michigan State University 

 

Sunday, April 14 

 7:45 – 9:15am, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Salon 1 

 Exploring the Intentions Behind Contradictions in Prospective Teachers’ Imagined Enactment of Humanizing Pedagogies 

 Sheila Orr, Michigan State University 

 

11:15am – 12:55pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115B 

Mentoring Prospective Teachers to Disrupt Racial Injustices in Secondary Mathematics  

Classrooms (Poster 5) 

Sheila Orr, Michigan State University 

 

11:25am – 12:55pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 3, Room 305 

A Co-Inquiry to Promote Access, Agency, and Justification Activity in Algebra II Classrooms 

 Kristen Bieda, Michigan State University, and others 

 

 11:25am – 12:55pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 111A 

 “I Don’t Have a Place, I have People”: Fostering Neplantlero in Welcoming and Affirming Environments 

 Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Audriyana Jaber, Ismel Jaber, Joanne E. Marciano, and Sabrina Zarza, all from Michigan State University