Mathematical Behavior
Carolyn A. Maher is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Education in 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 the Ed.D. in Mathematics Education, both from Rutgers University Faculty Website
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Arthur B. Powell, Jr. is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Urban Education at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Faculty Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Robert B. Davis Institute for Learning of the Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick. He received his B.A. in mathematics and statistics from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA; M.A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and Ph.D. in mathematics education from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. Dr. Powell’s research interests focus in the following areas where he has published extensively: writing and mathematics learning; ethnomathematics; development of mathematical ideas, reasoning, and heuristics; teacher professional development in the mathematics for teaching; and collaborative problem solving in mathematics with technology. At present, he directs the Research Group on Communication, Technology, and Mathematics Learning that is engaged in an investigative and instructional project, called eMath. To fund his collaborative research, Dr. Powell has garnered funding from local, national, and international agencies.
Arthur B. Powell, Jr. is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Urban Education at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Faculty Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Robert B. Davis Institute for Learning of the Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick. He received his B.A. in mathematics and statistics from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA; M.A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and Ph.D. in mathematics education from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. His research interests focus in the following areas where he has published extensively: writing and mathematics learning; ethnomathematics; development of mathematical ideas, reasoning, and heuristics; teacher professional development in the mathematics for teaching; and collaborative problem solving in mathematics with technology. At present, he co-chairs SIG/Research in Mathematics Education of the American Educational Research Association. Also, he directs the Research Group on Communication, Technology, and Mathematics Learning that is engaged in an investigative and instructional project, called eMath. To fund his collaborative research, Dr. Powell has garnered funding from local, national, and international agencies.
In Haiti, last year, along with a graduate of Rutgers University-Newark, he developed a professional development project for teachers of elementary schools, focused on the materials and pedagogy developed and popularized by the Egyptian-born psychologist and mathematician, Caleb Gattegno.
In the United States, Dr. Powell works to further Gattegno's ideas on the subordination of teaching to learning. In collaboration with a small group of other educators, in 2003, he co-founded the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, where Gattegno's approach to the teaching of reading, world languages, social studies, science, and mathematics are practiced and where he directs the professional development of teachers in mathematics.Faculty Website
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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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Victoria Krupnik is a research consultant for RBDIL. Her research focuses on the development of mathematical reasoning in children. She is also a math coach for K-8 and teaches part-time with the Math Department at Rutgers University.