Math Ed Podcast

By Samuel Otten

Interviews with mathematics education researchers about recent studies. Hosted by Samuel Otten, University of Missouri.

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November 14, 2025Episode 2510: Drew Nucci - artificial intelligence and math education
Drew Nucci ([email protected]) from WestEd discusses his team's ongoing work related to generative AI in schools and survey results about math and science teachers' perspectives on GenAI.
WestEd's website
Report on National Survey Results: https://www.amplifylearn.ai/reports/
Colleague.AI: https://www.colleague.ai/
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36min
October 14, 2025Episode 2509: Pamela Weber Harris - developing mathematical reasoning
Pam Harris discusses her new book series Developing Mathematical Understanding (K-12) from Corwin Press and her experiences in professional development with mathematics teachers.
Pam's professional website (Math is FigureOutAble)
Developing Mathematical Understanding book
Developing Mathematical Understanding free workshop
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46min
September 29, 2025Episode 2508: Dan Meyer - career thus far (math ed blogging, Desmos technology, Amplify)
Dan Meyer from Amplify discusses his career thus far in mathematics education, including his work as a teacher, as a graduate student and blogger at Stanford University, and with Desmos instructional technology.
Dan's old dy/dan blog
Set of Three-Act Math Tasks
"Math class needs a makeover" TED talk
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36min
August 05, 2025Episode 2507: Amy Hackenberg - student units coordination and teacher decentering
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
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46min
July 04, 2025Episode 2506: Digest 12 - Special Issue on Incremental Professional Development
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 has also been collected into a book, as well, from MDPI, if you prefer either the free PDF of the collected volume or a physical book.
[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 Communities of math teachers engaged in action research projects. Education Sciences, 14(10), 1104.
[20:17] Marzocchi, A. S., Stone-Johnstone, A., Kurianski, K., & Soto, R. C. (2024). Supporting mathematics instructors' transition to equity-minded active instruction using a community of practice framework. Education Sciences, 14(9), 1001.
[23:05] Lee, H. S., Thrasher, E., Mojica, G. F., Graham, B. M., Lee, J. T., & Kuhlman, A. (2024). Examining teachers' professional learning in an online asynchronous system: Personalized supports for growth and engagement in learning to teach statistics and data science. Education Sciences, 14(11), 1236.
[26:51] Elliott, R., & Roberts, S. A. (2024). Studio as a catalyst for incremental and ambitious teacher learning. Education Sciences, 44(11), 1160.
[32:45] Lesseig, K., & Hoppe, J. (2024). Beyond traditional lesson study: How Mathematics Studio supports generative teacher learning. Education Sciences, 14(12), 1277.
[36:01] Jansen, A., Botello, M., & Silla, E. M. (2024). Rough Draft Math as an evolving practice: Incremental changes in mathematics teachers' thinking and instruction. Education Sciences, 14(11), 1266.
[41:15] Quebec Fuentes, S. (2025). S^3D Approach: Incremental professional development for fostering small-group discourse. Education Sciences, 15(1), 36.
[46:38] Litke, E., Wilson, J., & Hill, H. C. (2025). Equity-focused, rubric-based coaching: An incremental improvement approach to supporting teachers to shift toward more equitable mathematics instruction. Education Sciences, 15(4), 444.
Book containing all the articles: Incremental and Innovative Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers | MDPI Books
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53min
June 03, 2025Episode 2505: Julie Nurnberger-Haag - integer arithmetic in the middle grades
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
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45min
May 22, 2025Episode 2504: Yusuke Uegatani - semi-formal reasoning and negotiation
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
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14min
May 12, 2025Episode 2503: Alina Kadluba - assessing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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
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22min
April 13, 2025Episode 2502: Discussing the Science of Math - Sarah Powell and Rachel Lambert
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
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1h 32min
January 13, 2025Episode 2501: Alan Schoenfeld - career in math education (problem solving, assessment, models of teaching, and math wars)
Alan Schoenfeld from the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his career in mathematics education research.
Alan's professional webpage
Alan's Google Scholar page
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1h 26min

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