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Congratulations to Amy Tanner!! She has been granted continuing faculty status and has been promoted to Associate Teaching Professor.

Congratulations to our majors that graduated this April. Good luck in all your future endeavors!

BYU Mathematics Education department invited Dr. Signe Kastberg from Purdue University to give a colloquium on March 29 on relational teacher education. Dr. Kastberg’s research interests are in mathematics teacher education, specifically relational practice including exploring and illustrating listening, trust, care, and empathy, and the ways in which these sustain and motivate student-teacher collaborations.

BYU Mathematics Education Assistant Professor Kate Johnson co-authored the textbook “Mathematics discourse in secondary classrooms: A practice-based resource for professional learning”. The textbook was published in November 2017 after eight years of researching, writing, and evaluating.

Congratulations to graduate students Haley Jeppson and Emily Hales. They are the winners of our department’s 3MT competition. They moved on to the college competition were they both were awarded honorable mention. Click here for more information from the college.

Congratulations to Emily Hales, Katelyn Pyfer, and Amy Ross for being the winners of their session at the SRC. Great work! For an abstract on their presentation, please click here.

Chelsey Van de Merwe, a student who switched her major to Mathematics Education after her LDS mission was hired 3 months after student teaching at Mountain View High School.

BYU Mathematics Education Graduate Coordinator Dr. Daniel Siebert co-authored the article “Digital Mathematics Literacies,” which was published in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy in March 2017. The paper provides recommendations of best practices for teaching digital literacies in mathematics classrooms.

We would like to congratulate Nathan Smith who was recently named Mathematics Education Outstanding Student for Winter Semester 2018. Nate is student teaching this semester and will graduate in April.

The International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education published a research article by BYU Mathematics Education assistant professor Steven Jones, PhD, in August 2017.