Areas of Interest

• Inquiry focused discourse in the mathematics classroom.
• Distributed Cognition in mathematics.
• Mathematical argumentation and reasoning.
• Teacher inducation and professional development.

Keyword Interest

• Inquiry and Mathematics
• Argument and Reasoning in Mathematics
• Representation in Mathematics

Current Research Topic/Field-Based Project

Project:
Model Data
• Development of a curriculum to build and foster student learning and reasoning about statistics.
• The design and development of an assessment instrument to measure student learning and reasoning about statistics.

Project:
A program to develop and empirically test a learning progression for modeling that spans the elementary and middle school grades.

Project:
Development of a yearlong first order inquiry-based learning program in a middle school classroom.

Former Experience

• Founded and taught at a public charter school in an urban setting
• High School mathematics instructor in an urban setting

Education

• M.Ed. (2002): Education, University of California, Los Angeles
• B.S. (2001): Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles