My scholarship is focused on supporting students' learning in middle school and high school. I study student reasoning, particularly as it relates to algebra, generalization, and proof, as well as teachers' pedagogical practices aimed at fostering meaningful student engagement. More recently, I have started studying playful math, and how to support students' playful engagement in mathematical ideas.

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I have received fifteen grants from national and state organizations including the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences. I currently serve as the PI on two projects. One is an NSF-funded project investigating classroom practices that foster mathematical generalizations. This work includes scaling up findings from twelve years of teaching experiment studies to the whole-classroom level, in which my colleagues and I work with teachers to support their implementation of research-based units in algebra.

 

The second project is supported by an internal grant investigating what happens when we playify classroom math tasks. I maintain a strong interest in issues of equity and social justice, which informs my work with students, teachers, and districts.