Current Projects

NetStat. Converting software created for single users into distributed, collective activity infrastructures. Focusing on the impact of group-centered activity design not only for probability, statistics and data modeling, but also expanding to all of secondary mathematics using GeoGebra’s representational affordances. Partners: Isaac Litton Middle Prep, Donelson Middle Prep, West End Middle Prep, the University of California at Davis, GeoGebra.

GbCC. Developing a highly programmable collective learning tool for STEM subjects with a focus on a complex systems lens. Leveraging the multi-agent representational infrastructure and programmability of NetLogo to offer classrooms a flexible environment for modeling across the curriculum. Partners: Isaac Litton Middle Prep, Donelson Middle Prep, West End Middle Prep, East Nashville Magnet High School, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Northwestern University, GeoGebra, NetLogo

SAIL+CTM. Building a year-long curriculum for 5th grade science, focusing on integrated scientific modeling and language learning, with an emphasis on the enrichment of the classroom as a learning community through the participation of emergent bilingual learners. Design-based research in Tennessee on extended multi-modal modeling units on ecology and on space systems. Partners: Poplar Grove Middle School, New York University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Calgary, StarLogo NOVA.

CAMPS. Exploring the intersections of computational thinking, mathematics, and artistic expression. Offering intensive summer experiences of programming for artistic effect, and exploring the connection of these experiences with engagement in classroom settings, both in class and after school. Partners: Antioch Middle School, Isaac Litton Middle School, the University of Calgary.

Model Assessment. Supporting teacher communities in enriching the practice of K-5 mathematics teaching with rich feedback, and connecting the high-density, high-value flow of assessment information achieved through classroom observation and interactions with the stream of data from more standardized forms of assessment. Partners: Monitor Elementary, Shaw Elementary, the University of California at Berkeley.

Cálculo Para Todos. Providing a cost effective, open-source hardware and software solution for using data generation and collection as a means of democratizing calculus and the mathematics of change and variation.

Models and Modeling Working Group. Pursuing research in the Models and Modeling perspective, focusing on mathematics learning that involves students in mathematizing realistic situations, for real or imagined clients.