Carolyn A. Maher is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Education at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education. She has focused her research and scholarship on students' mathematical reasoning and argumentation, supported by the National Science Foundation and other sources, in excess of $16 million. Professor Maher is known internationally for her multi-year longitudinal studies of students’ mathematical learning and student reasoning. She received the 2022 National Council Teachers of Mathematics Lifetime Achievement Award. She has served as Director of the Robert B. Davis Institute for Learning at Rutgers University for over three decades and as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mathematical Behavior for two decades. Professor Maher holds a B.A. in Mathematics, and an Ed.D. in Mathematics Education, from Rutgers University. Faculty Website
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Dr. Arthur B. Powell is Professor in the Department of Urban Education at Rutgers-Newark. He is currently working on two projects. The first is called, "Executive Functions + Mathematics." He is working with middle-school teachers and students in Newark, NJ and Vista, CA. The aim of this project is to provide opportunities for online collaboration through a portal (Virtual Math Team developed by Drexel University), and to engage in problem solving tasks that will engage students in three different topic areas: proportional reasoning, algebra & geometry - in order to help them attain greater identification with Mathematics and help them work collaboratively on problem solving tasks. Currently, the project is are providing online professional development to teachers.
The second is a theoretical project on differences between different historical and philosophical approaches to rational numbers and its implications for youth. Overall, Dr. Powell's research interests focus on writing and mathematics learning; ethnomathematics; development of mathematical ideas, reasoning, and heuristics; teacher professional development in teaching mathematics; and collaborative problem solving in mathematics with technology. He also directs the Research Group on Communication, Technology, and Mathematics Learning and its instructional project, eMath.
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Keith Weber, PhD, is a researcher in mathematics education whose interests are in the mathematical cognition of doing advanced mathematics. He is interested in mathematical proof, including how mathematicians and mathematics majors present, read, understand, and evaluate proofs. He is part of the Proof Comprehension Research Group (PCRG) that investigates the issues described above. Their website, which contains copies of many of his papers, is: Proof Comprehension Research Group, Faculty Website
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