Congratulations to Haley Barton and Diantha Lemon! They were the recipients of the Outstanding Student Award for Fall Semester 2020. They will be doing their student teaching this semester and graduating in December 2020.
Keith R. Leatham has been appointed as the new chair of the mathematics education department. Keith is replacing Blake E. Peterson who served as chair for six years. Dawn Teuscher will continue to serve as the associate chair. Click here for more information.
Dawn Teuscher recently published an article with some colleagues. The article was titled "Discontinuity in Enacted Scope and Sequence of Middle Grades Mathematics Content" in the Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership. Dawn has answered a few questions about this article below: Who were your co-authors on this article? Lisa Kasmer, Travis Olson, and Shannon Dingman Who would you say is the target audience for this article? State and district mathematics leaders What is the big problem you hoped to address with this article? The purpose of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics was to assist states in teaching similar content across states. With the intention of students learning similar content regardless of the state they lived in. However, what we found is that although students may be learning similar…
