APS

2023 APS Annual Convention

Fostering Equity, Executive Functions, and Math Conceptual Understanding: A Multi-Year Intervention with Black and Latinx Middle School Students

Friday, May 26, 2023 · Washington, DC

Oral · Social

Mathematical Thinkers Like Me (MLM) is a first-of-its-kind intervention that is implementing an original online collaborative problem-solving and storytelling context to test if it facilitates equity-based psychological and executive function mechanisms underlying math conceptual understanding. This symposium reports and discusses emerging findings that lay the groundwork for MLM’s intervention outcomes.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Luis RiveraChair
    Rutgers University, Newark
  • Stephen WeimarCoChair
    21st Century Partnership for STEM Education
  • Jonathan CookDiscussant
    The Pennsylvania State University

Presentations

  1. Equity-Based Social Psychological Variables Underlying Math Learning and PersistenceSophie Kuchynka, Luis Rivera
  2. Executive Function Contributions to Challenging Mathematical ConceptsMiriam Rosenberg-Lee, Roberto Abreu-Mendoza
  3. Teacher Practices That Foster Equity, Conceptual Understanding, and Executive Functions in Online Collaborative Problem SolvingK. Ann Renninger, Ana Michels, Maria DeDios, Maeve Hogan, Stephen Weimar