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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded through the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076), provides $763,859 over four years to the University of Illinois to support teachers in designing and implementing geometry lessons using a human-centered design (HCD) approach. The project will engage mathematics teachers in lesson study to develop and implement problem-based geometry lessons that integrate HCD principles. Key project...
This $750,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve mathematics education for pre-service K-8 teachers at Arizona State University. The project will integrate visual computing technology and the engineering design process into an upper-division mathematics methods course, engaging approximately 180 pre-service teachers per year. Research will study the effectiveness of this interdisciplinary approach in...
This $149,983 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop, implement, and evaluate web-based AI-driven classroom simulation tools that will improve evidence-based mathematics teaching practices. The project will create a suite of open-source simulations to support pre-service teachers in fostering rich mathematical discourse in their classrooms. It will also produce open data sets of mathematical dialogue and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings provides $526,437 to the University of Maine System under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2027. The award funds a project to investigate the educational potential of representing and interacting with three-dimensional geometric figures through extended reality technologies...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $849,931 to support a collaborative research project that aims to help middle school teachers customize an integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum unit. The project will work with 18 teachers and up to 4,800 students to understand how teachers can adapt next-generation STEM+CS curricular materials to their local school and community contexts. Key outcomes...
This is a Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) totaling $632,122. The award aims to improve programs that prepare the next generation of college mathematics instructors by: Developing curricular packages for teaching providers (faculty members) on how to deliver effective teaching-focused professional development (TPD) to novice college math instructors. Building understanding of the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $1,662,312, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The goal of the project is to enhance elementary school teachers' content and pedagogical content knowledge of numbers and operations using an AI-based interactive professional development program. The program aims to create a personalized, active learning environment for teachers to improve their understanding of foundational math...
This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of four curricular modules to foster STEM thinking and integration in mathematics courses for elementary education majors at Marquette University. The modules aim to provide authentic problem-solving experiences for pre-service teachers related to quantitative relationships using ratios, proportions, scaling, measurement and estimation. Informed by the Next Generation Science Standards, Standards for Technological...
This $916,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to advance knowledge on how students can learn robust algebra skills. The project, led by North Carolina State University, will develop an innovative "constructive tutee inquiry" technology that uses large language models to engage students in a question-and-answer dialogue to help them build conceptual and procedural connections in algebra. Classroom evaluation studies...