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Congratulations to Erin Carroll who was the recipient of the Mathematics Education Outstanding Student award for Winter Semester 2020. She will be student teaching this semester and will be graduating in April 2020.

In mathematics education, much of what is taught connects to the outside world. However, there are often disconnects between how students learn math in math courses and how they use or apply that math in the real world or in science courses. Past research has shown that this is especially true of calculus content. Dr. Steven Jones chose to study this disconnect from application to other fields by examining the calculus concepts of concavity and inflection points and how they are reasoned qualitatively and quantitatively by students.

We’d like to say “thanks” to Pat Fossat for his two years as a CFA in the Department of Mathematics Education. He is now teaching at Lake Mountain Middle School in Saratoga Springs.

Congratulations to Miriam Beazer who was the recipient of the Mathematics Education Outstanding Student award for Fall Semester 2019. She will be student teaching this semester and will be graduating in December 2019.

Congratulations to Steven Jones!! He has been granted continuing faculty status and has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Dawn Teuscher has been appointed as the new associate chair of the Mathematics Education Department. Her term began August 1, 2019.

On April 3rd, 2019 Professor Dawn Teuscher along with former students Kylie Palsky and Charlie Palfreyman, received the Linking Research and Practice Outstanding Publication Award from NCTM for their co-authored article “Inverse Functions: Why Switch the Variable?” published in the March 2018 issue of Mathematics Teacher.

Congratulations to Kate Johnson!! She has been granted continuing faculty status and has been promoted to Associate Professor.

On March 28th, 2019 Dr. Blake Peterson received the Benjamin Cluff Jr. Excellence in Educator Preparation award. Educator Preparation is the work to teach future K-12 teachers.

Dr. Tanner has consistently excellent student evaluations: students state that they have never taken a better class at BYU. They know she cares about them by how she interacts with them and makes adjustments with pacing as needed. Her peer evaluations note that she is also very organized and reflective about her teaching.