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Teaching Middle Grades Mathematics Certificate and MA Programs

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montclair State University offers two graduate programs in Teaching Middle Grades Mathematics.

A team of students compete in the Putnam Exam

Each year around 4000 students take the exam and oftentimes more than half the students who take the exam score a 0 out of 120.

A realization of the stochastic SIS model with seasonality exhibiting an extinction event.

Faculty Publish in SIAM

Drs. Lora Billings and Eric Forgoston found that classical tools from dynamical systems and perturbation theory provide an intuitive way to analyze stochastic epidemiological models with seasonal forcing and predict noise-induced rare events.

Math is in the Air

Juggling brings together a creative campus collaboration

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.

MSU SCUDEM math team

Applied Mathematics Team Competes at the SCUDEM III Challenge

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What would you look like as a dinosaur?

Professors Joseph DiNapoli and Eliza Leszczynski lead an activity at homecoming using paleontology to make sense of proportions.

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Preparing the Effective Elementary Mathematics Teacher

Erin Krupa (PI), Steven Greenstein (Co-PI), Jennifer Robinson (Co-PI), and Diana Aria (Co-PI) received a grant to establish the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, the award provides $1,449,992 and is effective from 4/1/2017 – 3/31/2022

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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