Dr. Math's Education Web site

Welcome to my web page. I am a professor of mathematics education with research interests in quantitative methods as they apply in mathematics education, the role of representation in mathematical sense making, and assessment of teaching and learning. I was invited to be a visiting scholar at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton NJ in 2008. A little ancient history, in 2003, I received the Montague Scholar Award for undergraduate teaching and in 2004 I earned the post of Associate Editor for the American Educational Research Journal. In 2006, I earned the post of associate editor of the School Science and Mathematics journal with Dr. Gerald Kulm as editor and this is coming to a close. I was pursuaded to remain in the post with the new editorial team of Carla Johnson and Shelly Harkness through 2015.

I have been a faculty researcher and Co-PI on several funded projects. I was a researcher on a sub-contract to the American Association for the Advancement of Science grant from the Inter-agency Educational Research Initiative. It was a five-year project lasting until 2007 and resulted in our Middle School Mathematics Project. In August 2006, we founded the Aggie STEM Center with Drs. Jim Scheurich, James Morgan, and Mary Margaret Capraro with a 1.4 million dollar Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics grant. My appointment and confirmation to National Middle School Association's Research Advisory Board was approved November 2006 and has been extended through 2013. I was invited to the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ for a summer fellowship in 2007. I was a Co-PI with Chance Lewis and Steve Carpenter on the 350K (through 2011) grant New Traditions - - things have been quite busy lately. December 2007, I served a short term as Assistant Department Head for Research and Mentoring. In 2010 we received $500,000 to expand the Aggie STEM Center, which now employs four faculty, two staff members, four doctoral students,three undergraduate students and four consultants.

I was on faculty development leave, January 2009 through September 2009, I spent the majority of my spring semester at Rutgers working with the scholars on affective representations in the final stages of the MetroMath Project and examining the relationship between mathematics innovations and student achievement across studies at Johns Hopkins. I guest lecturdr at Bogaziçi University in Turkey.

We took a group of preservice teachers and graduate students on a study abroad trip to Prague Czech Republic for the month of August 2011.

If you are interested in attending graduate school please contact me so we can talk about the benefits of attending Texas A&M with an emphasis in Mathematics Education.