Mathematics and Statistics Education Research

Justin Dimmel

Justin Dimmel, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine

Current Research & Interests

  • His research is based on a mixed-methods study of the communication practices that are used by teachers and students when doing proofs in high school geometry.
  • He has broad interests in how people learn to represent mathematics and communicate their mathematical ideas to others.

Recent Publications

Robert Franzosa

Franzosa

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Franziska Peterson

Franziska-Peterson

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Natasha Speer

Natasha Speer, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Current Research

  • Currently, she is working on video cases for novice college mathematics instructor professional development and the project “On The Job Learning: Graduate Student Instructors’ Development of Knowledge for Teaching,” which seeks to study newly formed teaching-related knowledge in novice college physics instructors.
  • Examining the influence that mathematical knowledge for teaching has on college mathematics instructors’ teaching practices.

Recent Publications

  • Speer, N., Smith, J., & Horvath, A. (2010). Collegiate mathematics teaching: An unexamined practice, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 29(2), 99-114.
  • Speer, N. & Wagner, J. (2009). Knowledge needed by a teacher to provide analytic scaffolding during undergraduate mathematics classroom discussions, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 40(5), 530-565.
  • Kung, D. & Speer, N. (2009). Teaching assistants learning to teach: Recasting early teaching experiences as rich learning opportunities, Studies in Graduate and Professional Student Development, 12, 133-152.