Doctoral Student Presents Original Research at NCTM 2022

Doctoral student Amy Daniel recently presented her original research at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual research conference in Los Angeles, CA. Amy’s presentation was entitled “Multiple Representations of Function in a Calculus Open Educational Resource Compared to a Traditional Textbook.” In her research, Amy analyzed and compared student tasks found in an Open Educational Resource (OER) to those in a traditionally-published calculus textbook with respect to whether and how they required students to make connections between multiple representations of functions. This analysis revealed that the OER included a higher percentage of tasks making this requirement, though was less likely than the traditional text to require students to construct a new representation (as opposed to perceiving the connection between two given representations). Amy conducted her research as part of her course project in the MATH 816 doctoral class on Mathematics Curricula with Dr. DiNapoli. Congratulations, Amy!