Math in the Making
The Math in the Making project asks the question: Can we leverage participation and success in making to help someone who thinks they aren’t very good at math come to see themselves as mathematically competent?
ESSIL: Extracting Salient Scenarios from Interaction Logs
Extracting Salient Scenarios from Interaction Logs helped students understand the principles of complex systems by developing a new type of education technology to support their learning and participation in the multi-person immersive simulation.
Framing Research on Activities as Mathematical Experiences (FRAME)
FRAME investigated strategies to enhance the mathematics in museum-based making and tinkering activities and laid the foundation for a full research study on broadening family participation in mathematics through making.
Designing Biomimetic Robots
Designing Biomimetic Robots created and studied an interdisciplinary learning environment for middle school students, by having students study the natural world and use what they learned to design their own robots.
Data Clubs for Middle School Youth
Developed data science materials and activities for after-school and summer experiences.