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Category: Mathematics Education PhD

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Students Present at NJECC 34th Annual Statewide Educational Technology Conference

Erell Germia and Toni York delivered the workshop, “Teaching Debugging on Scratch.”

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Congratulations to Dr. Jacqueline Dauplaise

Jacky received her EdD in Mathematics Education on May 21, 2019 at the NJ Performing Arts Center.

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PhD Candidates Present at epiSTEME 8 in Mumbai

Erell Germia and Debasmita Basu presented their research work at the Eighth International Conference to Review Research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (epiSTEME 8) in Mumbai, India in January 2020.

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The Mathematics of Gravity

Debasmita Basu and her advisor Dr. Panorkou just published the article in Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12

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Maker Research Team presents at 41st PME-NA Conference

The team of faculty and students presented their research, “Revealing Teacher Knowledge through Making: A Case Study of Prospective Mathematics Teachers”

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Building a Teacher Knowledge Base for the Implementation of High-quality Instructional Resources through the Collaborative Investigation of Video Cases

This project focuses on the innovative Math for America video library

Debasmita Basu with poster at PME-NA

Student presents at 40th PME-NA Conference

Debasmita Basu, presented her dissertation “Examining the social aspects of the Greenhouse Effect through mathematical modeling” in the poster session at the conference held in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Developing Middle-School Students’ Understandings of Coordinate Systems (Mid-CoS) Project

Teo Paoletti (PI) received the Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant for $50,000. The period runs from 2018 – 2019.

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Meaningful Sketching and Meaningful Struggle in STEM Education

Joseph DiNapoli (Co-PI) received the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Grant for $749,933 effective from 9/1/2018 – 8/31/2020.

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When counting cubes is not enough: Exploring Volume Measurement Dynamically

Nicole Panorkou (PI) received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation fellowship grant for $70,000 effective from 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2019.

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Assimilating Computational and Mathematical Thinking into Earth and Environmental Science

Nicole Panorkou (Co-PI) received the National Science Foundation, STEM + Computing grant for $1,147,085 effective from 9/15/2017 – 08/31/2020

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Engaged Learning through Creativity in Mathematics and Science

Mika Munakata (PI) and Ashwin Vaidya (Co-PI) received a grant from the National Science Foundation: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Program for $299,701 effective from September 2016 – August 2020.