Mathematics Education Research Group

Mathematics Education Research seminar meets Wednesdays 11-12 in Carnegie 103, unless stated otherwise. It is organized by Joanna Masingila.
Research group calendars can be found at http://math-internal.syr.edu/.
Group Members

Nicole Fonger
Assistant Professor
Email: nfonger@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1499

Duane Graysay
Assistant Professor
Email: dtgraysa@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1485

Joanna Masingila
Professor
Email: jomasing@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.6234

Charlotte Sharpe
Assistant Professor
Email: cjsharpe@syr.edu
Graduate Students

Kingsley Adamoah
Graduate Student in Mathematics Education
Email: kyadamoa@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3195

Keshab Adhikari
Graduate Student in Mathematics Education
Email: kradhika@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.5386

Nigar Altindis
Graduate Student in Mathematics Education
Email: naltindi@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1582

Joash Geteregechi
Graduate Student in Mathematics Education
Email: jmgetere@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.5386

Abbie Miller
Graduate Student in Mathematics Education
Email: amille49@syr.edu

Emmanuel Nsadha
Graduate Student in Mathematics Education
Email: ensadha@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1582

Gabriel Oduro-Boamah
Graduate Student in Mathematics Education
Email: godurobo@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3195

Darrion Stringer
Graduate Student in Mathematics Education
Email: dmstring@syr.edu
Recent Research Presentations
Mathematics education graduate students present their research at the 2022 Research and Creative Scholarship Showcase in Bird Library. Photo credit: Martin Walls

Students discuss a poster

Student presents his poster.

Group discussion in front of a poster.
Recent Publications
- Meaningfulness in representational fluency (Nicole L.Fonger)
- Professional learning through teacher-researcher collaborations (Jennifer M. Mayer, Mary Ann Huntley, Nicole L. Fonger, Maria S. Terrell)
- How do teachers develop and enact a disciplinary view of literacy in mathematics (Codruta Temple, Helen M. Doerr)
- Instructional supports for representational fluency in solving linear equations with computer algebra systems and paper-and-pencil (Nicole L. Fonger, Jon D. Davis, Mary Lou Rohwer)
- Implementing a framework for early algebra (Maria Blanton, Bárbaras M. Brizuela, Ana Stephens, Eric Knuth, Isil Isler, Angela Murphy Gardiner, Rena Stroud, Nicole L. Fonger, Despina Stylianou)
- Mathematical knowledge for teaching teachers: knowledge used and developed by mathematics teacher educators in learning to teach via problem solving (Joanna O. Masingila, Dana Olanoff, Patrick M. Kimani)
- Students’ interpretations and reasoning about phenomena with negative rates of change throughout a model development sequence (Jonas B. Ärlebäck, Helen M. Doerr)
- Examining interactions between problem posing and problem solving with prospective primary teachers (Jinxia Xie, Joanna O. Masingila)
- The role of probability in developing learners' models of simulation approaches to inference (Hollylynne S. Lee, Helen M. Doerr, Dung Tran, Jennifer N. Lovett)
- Preserving pelicans with models that make sense (Tamara J. Moore, Helen M. Doerr, Aran W. Glancy, Forster D. Ntow)