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Mathematics Education Students at the 2026 Montclair State University Student Research Symposium

The Mathematics Department had nine students presenting research at this year’s Student Research Symposium

Posted in: Faculty and Student Research, Presentations, Students and Alumni

Math Education students with their mentors at the University's annual Student Research Symposium
Math Education students with their mentors at the University's annual Student Research Symposium

Undergraduate Student Research

Undergraduate student Noelani Brown presented a poster entitled Bringing Back Belonging: Do Students’ and Faculty’s Perceptions of Student Belonging Align in STEM? (faculty mentor: Dr. Nina Bailey)

Master’s Student Research

Masters student Grace Pomaah Amoako presented a poster entitled TikToks and High School Students’ Statistical Literacy: An Exploratory Case Study (faculty mentor: Dr. Nina Bailey)

Doctoral Student Research

Doctoral student Asja Alić presented two individual posters. The first entitled Patterns of Critical Statistical Literacy Habits of Mind across Preservice Teachers and Adults (faculty mentors: Dr. Nina Bailey and Dr. Karoline Smucker of Eastern Oregon University). The second Examining Descriptive Statistics Tasks in Introductory Statistics Textbooks (faculty mentors: Drs. Nina Bailey and Joseph DiNapoli).


Doctoral student Ariel Bonneau Rodriguez presented a poster entitled Introductory Statistics: How Textbooks Shape Student Learning (faculty mentor: Dr. Joseph DiNapoli).

Doctoral candidate Emily Olson presented a poster entitled The Role of Logic in Motivating In/Direct Proof: Analysis of Proof-Based Curriculum (faculty mentor: Dr. Joseph DiNapoli).


Doctoral student Gabriella Migliore presented a poster entitled Mathematical Modeling in the Big Ideas Blue Book (faculty mentor: Dr. Joseph DiNapoli).

Doctoral students Asja Alić and Ariel Bonneau Rodriguez co-presented a poster entitled Embodied Choreo-graphing of the Polar Coordinate System (faculty mentor: Dr. Steven Greenstein).

Doctoral candidate Amanda Provost, and doctoral students Ariel Bonneau Rodriguez, Michael Frimpong, and Toheeb Olatunji presented a poster entitled Multiplicative Reasoning Through Dynamic Measurement (faculty mentor: Dr. Nicole Panorkou).

We are so proud of you all!

Gabriella Migliore, Asja Alic, and Ariel Bonneau Rodriguez celebrate a successful poster session at the Student Research Symposium