Dr. Teo Paoletti
Principal Investigator
University of Delaware
Dr. Paoletti is an assistant professor specializing in mathematics education in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. The primary goal of his research agenda is to explore student understanding of mathematical ideas at various levels (e.g., middle school through post-secondary). He leverages design-based methods to explore ways in which students can leverage reasoning about relationships between quantities to construct and reason about critical mathematics concepts. His recent work entails designing task sequences that leverage various dynamic mathematical software (e.g., GeoGebra, Desmos, GSP) to support middle-school students in developing meanings for various function classes, graphs, and inequalities.
Prior to receiving his doctorate at the University of Georgia, Dr. Paoletti was a middle and high school mathematics teacher at a public school in New Jersey. He taught classes ranging from 7th-grade mathematics through AP Calculus BC.
Claudine Margolis
Collaborator
University of Michigan
Claudine is a Mathematics Education Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan. Claudine’s research is focused on how digital mathematics tasks can be designed to support students’ development of particular forms of mathematical reasoning.
Allison Gantt
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Delaware
Allison is a Ph.D. in Education candidate in the Mathematics Education specialization at the University of Delaware. Before beginning the program, she taught secondary mathematics for seven years, primarily in her hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
Allison’s experiences motivated her current research interests, which center around how secondary students learn algebra in classrooms through peer collaboration and other interactions. She has investigated the development of students’ algebraic thinking through the specific lenses of quantitative reasoning, covariational reasoning, and representational activity.
Allison has significant experience and interest in linking research to teaching practice. Throughout her studies, she continues to work with the local community of mathematics teachers through organizations like the Delaware Mathematics Coalition to facilitate professional development opportunities. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Educational Studies from Swarthmore College.
Osmond Asiamah Amponsah
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Delaware
Osmond is a Ph.D in Education student at the University of Delaware.
Allison Olshefke-Clark
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Delaware
Allie is a Ph.D. in Education student specializing in Mathematics Education in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. She is interested in calculus learning, particularly the definite integral.
After graduating from The University of Notre Dame with a B.S. in Physics, Allie taught twelfth-grade math and received an M.Ed. through Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education Teaching Fellows program. After leaving the classroom, she worked as both the Curriculum Developer and Evaluation & Research Assistant for a National Science Foundation Small Business Technology Transfer Project focused on integrating STEM and music in a 3rd-grade virtual camp setting. Before beginning the Ph.D. program at UD, she worked as the Associate Research Director for the ACE Ascent Program in Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives.