"If you wake up thinking about writing, you're a writer."
In my current projects on linking research and practice in mathematics education I am called to create illustrations and visual manifestations of ideas. I have also found this lens to be supportive in my teaching. In reading student papers, where ideas are still forming, I ask: Can you draw this idea? Create a sketch to illustrate […]
Read More Can you draw it? Sketchnotes 101Across all of my research I seek to better understand students’ meaningful learning of mathematics and the nature of supports for that learning. Lately I’ve been playing with new framings of ideas, pushing the boundaries of my comfort zone. Below is a list of my current projects (and the stage they are in, last updated […]
Read More Current Projects.For a while now, perhaps ever sense I was introduced to a “lab” model of scientific and education research, I’ve wondered, what is a lab? How do I build my own “lab”? In working on this, I came to the following conclusions: I am the leader of my own lab. My lab is focused on […]
Read More Dr. Nicky. The Scientist.Linking research and practice through video sketchnotes. My aim is to support meaningful math learning.
Read More Research and practice: representational fluencyWhat is at the intersection of mindfulness and mathematics?
Read More Making sense of experience.Meaning involves… Creation. Interpretation. Connection.
Read More Seeking connection.Today I sat down to write and found myself sketching out ideas for how the ground the revision of a paper. I found myself then re-reading an article on publishing by 3 amazing women in #mathed that further inspired my learning Here is what I am learning about playing the publishing game… Contribution. You have something […]
Read More Keys to playing the publishing game.One powerful lens that I find fascinating and incredibly rich is to take the stance of a student. Based on interacting with a student–listening to what they say, watching intently as the do, draw, or create something–and ultimately wondering, based on what I know about this student (history), the context we are in (situation), what might […]
Read More Student thinking as a source of insight.