2013 Conference Proceedings - University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Participants included 18 inservice teachers in a southern state in the United States. During the2011-2012 academic year, two of the three teachers of the class recruited participants from twoarea public schools. Participants were selected based on deficiencies in one or more of thefollowing areas: not certified to teach mathematics, less than 24 hours of college levelmathematics, little or no college level geometry exposure, alternative certification coupled withless than 3-5 years of teaching experience, and/or less than 1-2 mathematics pedagogy classes.(See Table 1 for more information about participants.)Table 1Participant InformationPseudonym # of years of teaching experience Teaching certificationDanielle .5 Math 4-8Addison 1 Math 4-8Drew 1 Generalist 4-8Matt 2 Math (Probationary)Ava 2 Math 4-8Brianna 3 NoneKatelyn 3.5 Math 4-8Kyla 3.5 Math 4-8/8-12, Generalist 4-8Melody 5 Generalist PK-6/4-8, SpecialEducation (SPED) K-12Ella 5 Math/Science 4-8Martha 5 Generalist 4-8Rachel 6 Math 4-8, ESLMonique 11 Generalist 4-8Harry 14 Math 4-8/8-12, SPED K-12Sydney 15 SPED K-12Maria 15 Math 4-8Heather 26 Elementary Math 1-8Jasmine 26 Generalist 1-8Proceedings of the 40 th Annual Meeting of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning 2013 127