Jae Baek
Instructional Assistant Professor
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Biography
Dr. Baek is a mathematics educator, whose primary teaching and research interests are in teaching and learning mathematics with understanding. She teaches math contents and methods courses for pre- and in-service teachers at elementary and middle levels, and conducts research on how children and teachers make sense of mathematics.
Current Courses
MAT 130.001 Dimensions Of Numerical Reasoning
MAT 201.003 Teaching Mathematics In The Elementary School
MAT 201.004 Teaching Mathematics In The Elementary School
Research Interests & Areas
Children's mathematical thinking in Numbers, Operations, and Algebra
Ph D Mathematics Education
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Grants and Contracts
Mathematical Concept Development through Measurement for teachers of Grades 1 through 5
Jeffrey Barrett, Craig Cullen, Jennifer Tobias, Jae Baek.
Illinois Mathematics and Science Partnerships Program. June 2012 - October 2012
Formative Assessment Improving Teachers' Instructional Practices
Jeffrey Barrett, Craig Cullen, Jae Baek, Jennifer Tobias.
Illinois State Board of Education. 2011 - 2013
Getting to the core: Grades 3-5 math & science partnership
Jae Baek, Shannon Dingman.
University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. September 2011 - August 2014
Formative Assessment Improving Teachers' Instructional Practices
Jeffrey Barrett, Craig Cullen, Jae Baek, Jennifer Tobias.
Mathematics and Science Partnerships (Illinois State Board of Education). - March 2011
Book, Chapter
Children’s Measurement Project: Sharing Trajectories with Teachers
Jeffrey Barrett, Megan Wickstrom, Jennifer Tobias, Craig Cullen, Amanda Cullen, Jae Baek.
(2019), Learning Trajectories for Teachers: Designing Effective Professional Development for Math Instruction
Numerical reasoning: Making sense of numbers and operations through multiplication in grades 3-5
Jae Baek.
Reasoning and sense making in grades 3-5, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Journal Article
Preservice teachers' pictorial strategies for a multistep multiplicative fraction problem.
Jae Baek, Megan Wickstrom, Jennifer Tobias, Amanda Cullen, Elif Safak, Nicole Wessman-Enzinger, J Vince Kirwan.
(2017)
Preservice teachers’ algebraic reasoning and symbol use on a multistep fraction word problem
Amanda Cullen, Tobias, Elif Safak, Nicole Wessman-Enzinger, Megan Wickstrom, Jae Baek.
International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 18 (1), 109-131, (2017)
Preservice teachers’ algebraic reasoning and symbol use on a multistep fraction word problem.
Amanda Cullen, Jennifer Tobias, Elif Safak, J Vince Kirwan, Nicole Wessman-Enzinger, Jae Baek, Megan Wickstrom.
(2017)
Preservice teachers’ pictorial strategies for a multistep multiplicative fraction problem
Jae Baek, Megan Wickstrom, Jennifer Tobias, Amanda Miller, Elif Safak, Nicole Wessman-Enzinger, J. Vince Kirwan.
Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 45 (1), 1–14, (2017), doi:10.1016/j.jmathb.2016.10.005
Teachers' Noticing of Children's Understanding of Linear Measurement.
Megan H Wickstrom, Jae Baek, Jeffrey Barrett, Craig Cullen, Jennifer Tobias.
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, (2012)
Presentations
Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Whole and Set/Area Models for Fractions
Jae Baek, Elif Safak, Jennifer Tobias.
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Irvine, CA, January, 2016
Preservice Teachers’ Understandings of Sizes of Wholes in Fraction Multiplication
Jae Baek, Jennifer Tobias, Megan Wickstrom, Elif Safak.
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Orlando, FL, February, 2015
Transitioning in Fractions from Pictures to Algebra
Jennifer Tobias, J Vince Kirwan, Jae Baek.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, New Orleans, LA, April, 2014
The effects of learning trajectory based professional development on teachers' noticing
Megan H Wickstrom, Jae Baek, Jeffrey Barrett, Craig Cullen, Jennifer Tobias.
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Online, November, 2013
Understanding mathematics embedded in students' strategies for multidigit multiplication
Jae Baek.
Cognitively Guided Instruction 7th Biennual National Conference, Des Moines, IA, July, 2013
Teachers' Noticing of Children's Understanding of Linear Measurement
Megan Wickstrom, Jae Baek, Jennifer Tobias, Craig Cullen.
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, January, 2013
A ten-day workshop series for a summer institute with Peoria District 150 elementary teachers through the Formative Assessment project
Jeffrey Barrett, Craig Cullen, Jae Baek, Jennifer Tobias.
Online, 2012
Teacher’s Noticing of Children’s Understanding of Linear Measurement
M H Wickstrom, Jae Baek, Craig Cullen, Jeffrey Barrett, Jennifer Tobias.
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Annual Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, November, 2012
Teachers' Learning of Learning Trajectories
Jeffrey Barrett, Jae Baek, Craig Cullen.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2012 Research Presession, Philadelphia, PA, April 24, 2012