Doctoral Student Wins Third Place Award for Published Paper

Mathematics Education doctoral candidate, Denish Akuom, is first author on a recently published a paper in the Journal of Research in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education along with Associate Professor and Doctoral Program Director, Dr. Steven Greenstein. The paper, The Nature of Prospective Mathematics Teachers’ Designed Manipulatives and their Potential as Anchors for Conceptual and Pedagogical Knowledge, reports on research that examines connections between prospective teachers’ designs of original manipulatives and how their designs mediate their teaching. Denish was also awarded a Bronze Medal by the editors of that journal for this paper.

Congratulations Denish!