Professor of Mathematics

Gave the research presentation

"Adaptive Tuning of Innovation Weight Parameters: Formulation and Results with
NAVDAS-AR/NAVGEM"

to the Joint World Climate Research/ World Weather Research Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis, held fully virtual, on September 13-18, 2021.

Professor of Mathematics Education

Published “How Do I Know I Learned Something? Reflecting on Learning by Using Video-Recorded Interviews to Battle Hindsight (‘I-Knew-It-All-Along’) Bias” in Developing Mathematical Proficiency for Elementary Instruction.

Professor of Mathematics Education

Received a $940,534.00 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for “Connecting Elementary Mathematics Teaching to Real-World Issues.”

Abstract: There are long-standing calls to make mathematics more meaningful, relevant, and applicable both inside and outside of the K-12 classroom. In particular, there is a growing recognition that mathematics is a valuable tool for helping students understand important real-world issues that affect their lives and society. Further, mathematics can support students in becoming mathematically literate and engaged democratic citizens. Despite the increased interest in connecting mathematics to real-world issues in the classroom, many teachers feel unprepared to do so. This project will engage students and teachers in rich, real-world math tasks; will support future teachers and mathematics educators in adapting, designing, and implementing similar tasks; and will provide a basis for further research on the most effective ways to design and implement real-world tasks in the mathematics classroom.

The three goals of the Connecting Elementary Mathematics to the World project are: (1) To explore how mathematics teachers adapt, design, and enact tasks that connect mathematics to the real world. We will study the teaching practices of the project team as they engage in this work in two summer camps and in elementary classrooms at two sites. (2) To develop a collection of exemplar tasks and rich records of practice for each task. These records of practice will detail the mathematical and real-world learning goals, background knowledge needed for both goals, common student responses, and videos or vignettes of the task in progress. A team of six teachers at two sites will be recruited to collaborate with the team throughout the project. Teachers will provide input and feedback on the design of, appropriateness of, and relevance of the tasks and the support materials needed to implement the real-world tasks. Initial tasks will be field tested with elementary students and additional tasks will be developed for subsequent week-long summer camps and for teaching in elementary classrooms. (3) To research both the development and enactment of these tasks. We will develop a theoretical framework for creating and implementing real-world tasks that can inform future practice and research in this area. The research products of this project will result in (a) an understanding of effective teaching and design practices for connecting mathematics to real-world issues, (b) a theoretical framework of how these practices are interconnected, and (c) how these practices differ from practices when teaching typical school mathematics tasks.

The Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

Professor of Mathematics Education

publish "Torsion and curvature in a continuously defective solid crystals" in Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, https://doi.org/10.1478/AAPP.991A3

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

Workshop presentation titled "Adapting Engineering Design Practices to
Mathematical Methods in Quantum Computing" in the Solution Architecture for Quantum Hardware & Software Development Workshop, part of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering held virtually October 12-16 , 2020. Joint work with Professor Marek Perkowski of PSU's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

Organized Workshop on Solution Architecture for Quantum Software and Hardware Development for 2020 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering held virtually October 12-16, 2020.

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

published "Geometric characterization of continuously defective elastic crystals" in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids.

Mau Nam Nguyen, Professor of Mathematics, received a 2021 Best Paper Award from Journal of Global Optimization (Springer) for the paper “Solving k-center problems involving sets based on optimization techniques.

Professor of Mathematics

Mau Nam Nguyen, Professor of Mathematics, published a book titled "Convex Analysis and Beyond" (co-authored Boris Mordukhovich) in the Operations Research and Financial Engineering book series of the Springer Publisher.