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 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 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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $842,811 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Texas A&M University to create and study an "Equitable and Interactive Mathematical Modeling (EIM2)" program. This four-year project aims to develop an interactive digital platform that empowers 6th and 7th grade students to engage in equitable mathematical modeling, where they can select scenarios based on their interests, experience visuals and animations,...
This $787,042 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a collaborative research project titled "From Stories to Solutions: Engaging Latinx Families as Design Partners to Advance Equitable Informal Engineering Learning Opportunities for Young Children." The project aims to co-design playful, hands-on engineering activities with 90 Latinx caregivers and their 5- to 8-year-old children that leverage oral...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to support faculty and student learning of equity-minded and student-centered pedagogy through iterative curricular co-design. The $399,896 award to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, a non-profit Hispanic-Serving Institution, will implement a professional development model that provides STEM faculty the knowledge, time, and support to design instructional innovations...
The National Science Foundation's STEM Education Program awarded a 5-year, $272,964 Project Grant to Oakland University to conduct research on cultivating and strengthening productive mathematical identities in early childhood and elementary students. The project aims to: 1) identify and document students', families', and communities' funds of knowledge related to mathematics learning, 2) support educators in designing and implementing number talk discussions that leverage these funds of...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $160,350 to Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc. (KSU R&SF) aims to improve preservice elementary teachers' responsive teaching skills in mathematics. The project will develop, enact, evaluate, and refine three instructional modules that utilize AI-based chatbots to provide preservice teachers with extensive opportunities to practice and refine skills such as noticing,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a $257,660 project titled "DIGITAL MATHEMATICS STORYTELLING: FRACTION STORIES FROM URBAN EMERGENT COMMUNITIES" at CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation. The project aims to investigate how elementary students in urban communities can use mobile technology to create digital mathematics stories that connect the math they learn in school to the math they see in their everyday lives. Over 5 years, the project will impact 12 elementary classrooms serving over 700 children. Key activities include developing a digital mathematics storytelling protocol for teachers, understanding the effects on students' mathematical identities and digital literacies, and creating an online community space for teachers to learn this approach. Additionally, a free, online teacher professional development website will be created featuring stories authored by participating students, families, and communities. This project supports NSF's goal of increasing students' knowledge and interest in STEM and ICT careers.