Les Steffe from the University of Georgia talks about his career in mathematics, including graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, the theory of radical constructivism, and research on students' understanding of number.
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Episode 1708: Les Steffe

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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 workBlack queer students’ counter-stories of invisibility in undergraduate STEM as a white, cisheteropatriarchal space (American Educational Research Journal, 2022): https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312221096455A 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.2022036586Undergraduate 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 Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022): https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED630414.pdfList of past episodes

Episode 2404: Luis Leyva - Queer of Color Justice in STEM

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/10.1080/00131911.2020.1722065Math with Melissa website https://www.mathwithmelissa.org/ Look for Math with Melissa on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTubeList of episodes

Episode 2403: Melissa Gallagher - adaptive teaching and math on social media

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/s40751-023-00132-7Nathalie's professional webpage https://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/nsinclair.html List of episodes

Episode 2402: Nathalie Sinclair - methodological experiments with embodied number

In this digest episode we hear summaries from Kelly Demirjian, Joshua Pope, Loella Lapat, and Samuel Otten about the following articles:[01:00] Stephan, M., Register, J., Reinke, L., Robinson, C., Pugalenthi, P., & Pugalee, D. (2021). People use math as a weapon: Critical mathematics consciousness in the time of COVID-19. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 108(3), 513-532. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-021-10062-z[06:38] Faulkner, V. N., Stiff, L. V., Marshall, P. L., Nietfeld, J., & Crossland, C. L. (2014). Race and teacher evaluations as predictors of algebra placement. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 45(3), 288-311. https://pubs.nctm.org/view/journals/jrme/45/3/article-p288.xml[11:10] Brand, B. R., Glasson, G. E., & Green, A. M. (2006). Sociocultural factors influencing students' learning in science and mathematics: An analysis of the perspectives of African American students. School Science and Mathematics, 106(5), 228-236. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1949-8594.2006.tb18081.x[16:08] Amorós-Poveda, L., & Bernárdez-Gómez, A. (2023). Edutuber and Gender in STEM. Education Sciences, 14(1), 40. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14/1/40Special Issue on Incremental PD for Math Teachers, accepting articles through August 31: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/YBV49M7Q71 List of episodes

Episode 2401: Digest 11 - critical math consciousness, algebra placement, African American perspectives, math and science YouTubers

Higinio Dominguez from Michigan State University discusses the article, "Young philosophers: Fifth-grade students animating the concept of space," published in ZDM Mathematics Education. Co-authors: Abreu and Peralta.Higinio's professional webpage https://education.msu.edu/people/dominguez-higinio/List of episodes

Episode 1708: Les Steffe

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