Math Ed Podcast

Amy Hackenberg from Indiana University discusses two articles from the Journal of Mathematical Behavior--"Middle school students at three stages of units coordination learn to make same speeds" (Vol. 72, 2023) and "Decentering to support responsive teaching for middle school students" (Vol. 77, 2025), both co-authored with Aydeniz-Temizer and Borowski. Amy's professional webpage: https://education.indiana.edu/about/directory/profiles/hackenberg-amy-j.html 2023 Student-Focused Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2023.101085  2025 Teacher-Focused Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101205 List of episodes

This episode contains summaries of the articles in the Education Sciences special issue on incremental PD for mathematics teachers. All articles are open access in this special issue and available on the journal website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/YBV49M7Q71  It will soon be collected into a book, as well, from MDPI. [1:35] Otten, S., de Araujo, Z., & Candela, A. G. (2025). The benefits of modesty: Considering incremental professional development for mathematics teachers. Education Sciences, 15(4), 473. [8:57] Arbaugh, F.. (2025). Commentary: Personal transformations and the possibilities of incremental progress in mathematics teacher professional development. Education Sciences, 15(1), 30. [12:36] Leshin, M., LaMar, T., & Boaler, J. (2024). Teachers' mixed implementation of Mindset mathematics practices during and after a novel approach to teacher learning. Education Sciences, 14(11), 1229. [16:45] Bondurant, L. M. (2024). Incremental growth through Professional Learning Co

Julie Nurnberger-Haag returns to the podcast to discuss the article, "Tools, tricks, and topics teachers use for integer arithmetic," published in the Electronic Journal for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (Vol. 29). Co-author: Scott Courtney Article URL: https://ejrsme.icrsme.com/article/view/23771  Julie's Google Scholar page List of episodes

Yusuke Uegatani from Hiroshima University High School (Fukuyama, Japan) discusses the article "Decentralising mathematics: Mutual development of spontaneous and mathematical concepts via informal reasoning," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics (Vol. 118). Co-authors: Hiroki Otani, Taro Fujita. Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-024-10366-w  Yusuke's ORCID scholar page List of episodes

Alina Kadluba from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) discusses the article, "How much C is in TPACK? A systematic review on the assessment of TPACK in mathematics," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics (Vol. 118). Co-authors: Anselm Strohmaier, Christian Schons, Andreas Obersteiner. Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-024-10357-x Alina's professional webpage List of episodes

In this episode, Sam is joined by two separate guests. Sarah Powell (University of Texas) describes the origins and aims of the Science of Math efforts, and Rachel Lambert (University of California, Santa Barbara) shares some critiques and concerns about the Science of Math as it is currently instantiated.Introduction (0:00:00)Origins with Sarah (0:03:12)Critiques with Rachel (0:22:26)Responses with Sarah (1:10:42) The Science of Math website https://www.thescienceofmath.com/ Sarah's professional webpage Rachel's professional webpage Rachel's NCTM webinar https://www.nctm.org/online-learning/Webinars/Details/686  List of episodes

Alan Schoenfeld from the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his career in mathematics education research. Alan's professional webpage Alan's Google Scholar page List of episodes

Jodie Hunter from Massey University (New Zealand) discusses the article, "Weaving together the threads of Indigenous knowledge and mathematics," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics, Volume 116. Co-author: Roberta Hunter Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-023-10256-7  Jodie's professional webpage: https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=463201  List of episodes

For this 200th official episode of the podcast, Samuel Otten from the University of Missouri discusses the main ideas from some of his most highly-cited articles and also from some of his "underrated" articles. Sam's website IJRME article on video vs live lesson observations: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1743727X.2024.2350068  JMB article on citations of Stein and Lane (1996): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0732312316301109  MTMS article on going over homework: https://pubs.nctm.org/view/journals/mtms/21/2/article-p98.xml MT article on why we need to learn math: https://www.nctm.org/Publications/mathematics-teacher/2011/Vol105/Issue1/Cornered-by-the-Real-World_-A-Defense-of-Mathematics/ [FREE PDF VERSION] List of episodes

Drew Nucci (dnucci@wested.org) from WestEd discusses his article, "The role of an online learning environment in teacher care for secondary mathematics students," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics, Volume 117. We also discuss Colleague.AI, which is a curriculum and assessment tool for teachers. WestEd's website Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-024-10350-4  Colleague.AI: https://www.colleague.ai/  List of episodes

Hanan Alyami from Purdue University Fort Wayne discusses her article, "Defining radian: Provoked concept definitions of radian angle measure," published in Research in Mathematics Education (Vol. 25). Article URL: https://journals.scholarsportal.info/details/14794802/v25i0002/154_drpcdoram.xml  Hanan's Professional Webpage: https://www.pfw.edu/about-pfw/who-we-are/directories/hanan-alyami List of episodes

Priya V. Prasad from the University of Texas at San Antonio discusses her NSF-project working with college algebra instructors and previews some research that will be shared at the PME-NA conference in a report entitled "Factors contributing to instructional shifts at the college level," co-author Jessica Gehrtz.Priya's professional webpage https://sciences.utsa.edu/faculty/profiles/prasad-priya.html List of episodes

Jonathan Bostic from Bowling Green State University discusses MathEdMeasures.org and the work of the VM2ED (Validity Evidence for Measurement in Mathematics Education) project, with Erin Krupa and others. https://MathEdMeasures.org/ Jonathan's professional webpage List of past episodes

Sigal-Hava Rotem from Utrecht University (The Netherlands) discusses the article, "Using critical incidents as a tool for promoting prospective teachers' noticing during reflective discussions in a fieldwork-based university course," published in Educational Studies in Mathematics (Vol. 117). Co-authors: Potari and Psycharis Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-024-10336-2  Sigal's professional webpage List of past episodes

Dave Coffey and Kathy Coffey from Grand Valley State University discuss their new book, Designing Math Adventures: Using Design Thinking to Support the Teaching and Learning of K-8 Mathematics, available through Amazon. Book URL: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Math-Adventures-Thinking-Mathematics/dp/B0D36HKT3X/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2 Dave's Delta Scape Blog http://deltascape.blogspot.com/  List of episodes

Travis Weiland from the University of Houston (but soon to be at UNC-Charlotte) discusses the chapter "Preparing teachers of statistics: A critical read of standards, review of past research, and future directions" published in The AMTE Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education (Vol. 5), with chapter co-authors Chris Engledowl and Susan Cannon. Book available from Information Age https://www.infoagepub.com/products/The-AMTE-Handbook-of-Mathematics-Teacher-Education-Vol-5  Travis's Google Scholar Page https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=smeqrnwAAAAJ&hl=en  List of episodes

Zandra de Araujo (University of Florida), Amber Candela (University of Missouri, St Louis), and Paul Wonsavage (University of Florida) join Sam Otten (University of Missouri, Columbia) to discuss their NSF-funded project entitled Practice-Driven Professional Development (PDPD). They share thoughts on why they are pursuing an incremental approach rather than a transformational approach in supporting math teachers. PDPD web articles about incremental PD (URL: https://practicedrivenpd.com/blog/) Mathematics Teacher PD: A Paradox and a Contradiction Walk into the Classroom Why Transformational PD Hasn't Worked at Scale  Why Incremental PD is Worth Trying Sample nudges shared at AMTE 2024 (more coming in Fall 2024) PDPD;s PME-NA article on our foundations of incremental PD Jon Star's essay on incremental changes in instruction Call for submissions to the special issue on incremental PD in Education Sciences (URL: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/YBV49M7Q71) Views expressed here are those

Luis Leyva from Vanderbilt University discusses his article, "Queer of Color Justice in Undergraduate Mathematics Education," published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 71. Article URL https://doi.org/10.1090/noti2875  Episode 1701 with Luis https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mathed/episodes/2017-01-04T12_03_01-08_00  Other related work Black queer students’ counter-stories of invisibility in undergraduate STEM as a white, cisheteropatriarchal space (American Educational Research Journal, 2022): https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312221096455 A queer of color challenge to neutrality in undergraduate STEM pedagogy as a white, cisheteropatriarchal space (Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2022): https://doi.org/10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.2022036586 Undergraduate Latin* queer students’ intersectionality of mathematics experiences: A Borderlands perspective (Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psyc

Melissa Gallagher from the University of Houston (soon to be at U.S. Math Recovery Council) discusses the article, "Adaptive teaching in mathematics: A review of the literature," published in Educational Review, Volume 7. Co-authors: Parsons and Vaughn. Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00131911.2020.1722065 Math with Melissa website https://www.mathwithmelissa.org/  Look for Math with Melissa on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube List of episodes

Nathalie Sinclair from Simon Fraser University in Canada discusses her article, "Knowing as remembering: Methodological experiments in embodied experiences of number," published in Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education.  Article URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40751-023-00132-7 Nathalie's professional webpage https://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/nsinclair.html  List of episodes