Cooperative Agreement 7200AA20FA00029

This federal Project Grant award of $860,227, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to improve numeracy knowledge in primary school students by leveraging numerical patterns in a modified board game. The project will explore the use of a modified 0-100 number board game with a spatial layout that highlights numeric patterns, compared to a standard board layout. This study will evaluate the impact of this patterning support on students'...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $809,155 project grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a game-based learning environment and conduct research and evaluation from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to improve probability education for high school students by designing artificial intelligence problem-solving activities within a game. Students will learn probability concepts while exploring AI algorithms...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Purdue University received a $788,393 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), effective September 1, 2025, through February 28, 2029. This collaborative research project will design and develop a suite of educational games targeting negative number and integer concepts for students in grades 2-4. The deliverables include game prototypes...

The University of California, San Diego will conduct a multi-year, multi-site collaborative research project on early childhood numeracy development under a $1.165 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The research will involve over 130 sites testing more than 3,000 children ages 2 to 5 years old across the United States and 27 other countries. Two foundational studies will examine how young children perceive and learn about...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary George Fox University received a $343,330 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), effective September 1, 2025, through February 28, 2029. The project delivers the design, development, and evaluation of educational games targeting negative number concepts for second through fourth-grade students. Through an iterative prototyping and...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $299,623 to the University of Florida (UF) and its subgrantee, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), to develop a machine learning-powered tool called MathCollaborate. This tool aims to support mathematics teachers in orchestrating productive collaborative learning activities for their students. The...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $391,091 will fund research at Texas A&M University from August 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024 examining the development of mathematics anxiety and its impact on math learning outcomes. The official federal grant program is the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program under the CFDA number 47.076. The project aims to advance understanding of how mathematics anxiety hinders math achievement through three main studies....

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to gain deeper insights into how undergraduate students in computer science and mathematics approach and comprehend fundamental discrete mathematics concepts. The $175,000 award to the California State University Long Beach Research Foundation will span one academic year from August 2024 to July 2025. The project will utilize a novel analytical approach combining the frameworks of...

This $1,783,246 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to create online curricula and conduct research to prepare future middle and high school mathematics teachers to effectively use web-based dynamic geometry technology tools to facilitate productive classroom discussions on geometric concepts. The project has three key goals: 1) develop online modules to train future teachers on using technology to lead productive...

This $373,993 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study on the cognitive and embodied processes involved in geometry learning. The research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will collect and analyze data on students' body movements, speech, and interactions as they play a mathematics learning game designed to encourage physical engagement. Using AI-powered...