Pre-K–8 Preservice Teacher Action Research Grants

Jennifer Bay-Williams Jennifer Bay-Williams Jennifer Bay-Williams, University of Louisville, Kentucky collaborating with Molly Hall, University of Louisville/Wilkerson Elementary School, Louisville, Kentucky and Alison Anderson, Wilkerson Elementary School, Louisville, Kentucky T.I.M.E. for Interviewing

Kelley Elizabeth Buchheister A Program for Success: Integrating Math Talk and Coding Activities with Preschool Children With increased attention to coding technologies designed for young learners, there has never been a more optimal time to integrate developmentally appropriate learning and teaching prac

Samuel Kifle Tsegai Role of representations in the initial fraction learning by fifth-grade students Fractions are an essential foundational skill for future mathematics success (NMAP, 2008). Fraction concepts are an intrigued area of number sense that many elementary and middle school students have been

Ryan M. Higgins Diagnostic Interviews: Analyses of Rising 4th-Graders' Fraction Understanding and Development of Pre-Service Teachers' Higher-Order Questioning Skills A review of literature supports a lack of fractions understanding by children and the lack of use of higher-order questioning skills in th

Mandi J. Wicks "1, 2, 3…Math iJournals for Me!"  The purpose of this proposal is to study the impact iPads have on math journaling in a first grade classroom and the applications that preservice teachers will gain through this research process. Approximately 20 first graders will use iPads for math journa