Dr. Mahtob Aqazade
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 313
Office Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM and by appointment
Office Phone
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Biography
Dr. Mahtob Aqazade received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Mathematics Education from Purdue Univerity. She also has two graduate certificates in Integrated STEM and Qualitative Research. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology. After completing her graduate degree, Dr. Aqazade was a postdoctoral research associate at Rice University for two years and a faculty member at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi for one year.
Current Courses
MAT 130.004 Dimensions Of Numerical Reasoning
MAT 201.002 Teaching Mathematics In The Elementary School
MAT 130.005 Dimensions Of Numerical Reasoning
MAT 585.001 Topics In Mathematics Education Seminar
Teaching Interests & Areas
Teaching Mathematics Content and Pedagogy in Elementary School
Research Interests & Areas
Exploring Elementary Students' Understanding of Numbers and Operations
Designing and Developing Cross-Curricular Instruction to Improve Elementary Students' Learning and Interest in Mathematics
Exploring Factors Influencing Mathematics Teachers' Retention Including Knowledge, Teacher Leadership, and Professional Learning Programs
PhD Mathematics Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
MS Mathematics Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
BS Industrial Mathematics
Sharif University of Technology
Tehran, Iran
Service, Teaching, and Research for Early Career Mathematics Educators (STaR) Fellow
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
2024
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
Purdue University
2020
Book, Chapter
Ekmekci, A., Aqazade, M., & Papakonstantinou, A. (2024). Research highlights about predicting TPACK and impact of professional development for K-12 mathematics teachers. In M. N. Ochoa, D. Gibson, & Y. Jin (Eds.), Research highlights in technology and teacher education (pp. 99–105). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). https://www.learntechlib.org/p/223858/
Kastberg, S. E., Chen, L., Aqazade, M., & Richardson, S. E. (2023). Voices in debriefing mathematics methods teaching. In A. Cameron-Standerford, B. Bergh, & C. Edge (Eds.), Pausing at threshold: Opportunity through, with, and for self-study of teacher education practices. Equity Press. Voices in Debriefing Mathematics Methods Teaching (equitypress.org)
Bofferding, L., Aqazade, M., & Farmer, S. (2018). Playing with integer concepts: A quest for structure. In L. Bofferding & N. M. Wessman-Enzinger (Eds.), Exploring the integer addition and subtraction landscape: Perspectives on integer thinking (pp. 3–25). Springer International Publishing AG.
Conference Proceeding
Aqazade, M., Atabas, S., & Mauntel, M. (in press). Leveraging ChatGPT for mathematical task design: A case study of two elementary preservice teachers.
Aqazade, M. & Bofferding, L. (2024). Use of children’s literature in mathematics teaching and learning. In Kosko, K. W., Caniglia, J., Courtney, S., Zolfaghari, M., & Morris, G. A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 2113–2115). Kent State University.
Bofferding, L. & Aqazade, M. (2024). First and third graders’ interpretations of an equality incorrect worked example. In Kosko, K. W., Caniglia, J., Courtney, S., Zolfaghari, M., & Morris, G. A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 134–135). Kent State University.
Aqazade, M. & Bofferding, L. (2023). Interactive storybooks for mathematical learning: What worked and what did not? In Slotta, J. D. & Charles, E. S. (Eds.), General Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 27–31). Montreal, Canada: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Aqazade, M. (2022). Making sense of integer story-interpretation problems. In Chinn, C., Tan, E., Chan, C., & Kali, Y. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022 (pp. 163–170). Hiroshima, Japan: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Journal Article
Aqazade, M., Atabas, S., & Mauntel, M. (2025). From skepticism to integration: Mathematics teacher educators’ perspectives and practices of using AI technologies. Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics, 35(3), 607–632. https://doi.org/10.29275/jerm.2025.35.3.607
Aqazade, M., Mauntel, M., & Atabas, S. (2025). Empowering mathematics teacher educators: Exploring AI-driven mathematical tasks. School Science and Mathematics, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssm.18339
Ekmekci, A., Aqazade, M., McGraw, R. Rushton, G, Gibson, D, Cerosaletti, C, Daley, M, & Kucuk, B. (2025). Using human, social, structural, and positive psychological capital to explore science and mathematics teacher retention. International Journal of STEM Education, 12(14). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-024-00523-1
Aqazade, M., Ekmekci, A., & Papakonstantinou, A. (2024). Developing mathematics teachers into leaders for high-need urban schools. Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. 8(2), 1–24.
Suazo Flores, E., Walker, W. S., Aqazade, M., Alyami, H., & Kastberg, S. E. (2024). Mathematics education researchers’ practices in interdisciplinary collaborations: Embracing different ways of knowing. Mathematics Education Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13394-024-00489-x
Grants & Contracts
Collaborative Research: Design and Development of Integer Games to Reduce Barriers to Algebra. National Science Foundation. Federal. (2025)