Dr. Mahtob Aqazade
Assistant Professor
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 313
Office Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM and by appointment
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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
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
Grants and Contracts
Collaborative Research: Design and Development of Integer Games to Reduce Barriers to Algebra
Mahtob Aqazade.
National Science Foundation. 2025 - 2029
Book, Chapter
Research highlights about predicting TPACK and impact of professional development for K-12 mathematics teachers
Adem Ekmekci, Mahtob Aqazade, Anne Papakonstantinou.
(2024), Research highlights in technology and teacher education, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Voices in debriefing mathematics methods teaching
Signe Kastberg, Lizhen Chen, Mahtob Aqazade, Sue Ellen Richardson.
(2023), Pausing at threshold: Opportunity through, with, and for self-study of teacher education practices, Equity Press
The effect of play and worked examples on first and third graders' creating and debugging of programming algorithms
Laura Bofferding, Sezai Kocabas, Mahtob Aqazade, Ana-Maria Haiduc, Lizhen Chen.
(2022), 19-29, 10.1145/3507951.3519284, Computational thinking in PreK-5: Empirical evidence for integration and future directions. A Special Research Publication, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. and Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund
Playing with integer concepts: A quest for structure.
Laura Bofferding, Mahtob Aqazade, Sherri Farmer.
(2018), Exploring the integer addition and subtraction landscape: Perspectives on integer thinking, Springer International Publishing AG
Conference Proceeding
Leveraging ChatGPT for mathematical task design: A case study of two elementary preservice teachers.
Mahtob Aqazade, Sebnem Atabas, Matthew Mauntel.
Proceedings of the 47th annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 667-675, (2025)
Changes in Students' Descriptions of Spatial Movements on a Grid
Laura Bofferding, Mahtob Aqazade.
Proceedings of the 46th annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 442-451, (2024)
Interactive storybooks for mathematical learning: What worked and what did not?
Mahtob Aqazade, Laura Bofferding.
General Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 27-31, (2023)
Voices from the field: Teachers’ perceptions of who teacher leaders are and what they do
Mahtob Aqazade, Adem Ekmekci.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023, 1800-1802, (2023)
Making sense of integer story-interpretation problems
Mahtob Aqazade.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022, 163-170, (2022)
Exhibiting integers’ conflict and resolution using a mathematics storybook: The case of four fifth graders
Mahtob Aqazade.
Proceedings of the 43rd annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 318-322, (2021)
Journal Article
Empowering mathematics teacher educators: Exploring Artificial Intelligence‐driven mathematical tasks
Mahtob Aqazade, Matthew Mauntel, Sebnem Atabas.
School Science and Mathematics, (2025), 10.1111/ssm.18339
From skepticism to integration: Mathematics teacher educators’ perspectives and practices of using AI technologies
Mahtob Aqazade, Sebnem Atabas, Matthew Mauntel.
Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics, 35 (3), 607-632, (2025), 10.29275/jerm.2025.35.3.607
Measuring teachers’ motivation, beliefs, leadership engagement, and networks: validation of instruments for teacher education and professional development programs
Adem Ekmekci, Mahtob Aqazade, David J. Gibson, Gregory Rushton.
Professional Development in Education, 1-25, (2025), 10.1080/19415257.2025.2580333
Using human, social, structural, and positive psychological capital to explore science and mathematics teacher retention
Adem Ekmekci, Mahtob Aqazade, Rebecca McGraw, Greg Rushton, David Gibson, Cathy Cerosaletti, Mike Daely, Burak Kucuk.
International Journal of STEM Education, 12 (14), (2025)
Developing mathematics teachers into leaders for high-need urban schools
Mahtob Aqazade, Adem Ekmekci, Anne Papakonstantinou.
Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 8 (2), 1-24, (2024)
Mathematics education researchers’ practices in interdisciplinary collaborations: Embracing different ways of knowing
Elizabeth Suazo-Flores, William S. Walker, Signe E. Kastberg, Mahtob Aqazade, Hanan Alyami.
Mathematics Education Research Journal, 37 (2), 239-256, (2024), 10.1007/s13394-024-00489-x
A call for exploring mathematics education researchers’ interdisciplinary research practices.
Elizabeth Suazo-Flores, Hanan Alyami, William S Walker, Mahtob Aqazade, Signe S Kastberg.
Mathematics Education Research Journal, 35, (2023)
Using Incorrect Worked Examples to Investigate the Consistency of First and Third Graders’ Measurement Conceptions
Laura Bofferding, Ana-Maria Haiduc, Mahtob Aqazade, Lizhen Chen, Sezai Kocabas.
International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 21 (6), 1913-1934, (2023), 10.1007/s10763-022-10334-x
“Where does the square go?” Reinterpreting shapes when solving a Tangram puzzle
Laura Bofferding, Mahtob Aqazade.
Educational Studies in Mathematics, 112, 25-47, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-022-10166-0
Early elementary students’ use of shape and location schemas when embedding and disembedding
Laura Bofferding, Lizhen Chen, Sezai Kocabas, Mahtob Aqazade.
Education Sciences, 12 (83), (2022), https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12020083
The role of interactive features within a mathematics storybook in interpreting a conflict and conflict resolution: The case of three fifth graders
Mahtob Aqazade.
Education Sciences, 12 (12), (2022), https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12120879
Second and fifth graders’ use of knowledge-pieces and knowledge-structures when solving integer addition problems
Mahtob Aqazade, Laura Bofferding.
Journal of Numerical Cognition, 7 (2), 82-103, (2021), https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.6563