Dr. Mahtob Aqazade
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 313
Office Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00 PM - 2:00 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
152.004Dimensions Of Mathematical Reasoning
130.005Dimensions Of Numerical Reasoning
152.002Dimensions Of Mathematical Reasoning
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
Bofferding, L. & Aqazade, M. (in press). Changes in students' descriptions of spatial movements on a grid.
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.
Aqazade, M., Ekmekci, A., & Papakonstantinou, A. (2022). Master teaching fellows’ perceptions of teacher leadership. In Lischka, A. E., Dyer, E. B., Jones, R. S., Lovett, J., Strayer, J., & Drown, S, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 958–962). Middle Tennessee State University. https://doi.org/10.51272/pmena.44.2022
Aqazade, M. (2021). Exhibiting integers’ conflict and resolution using a mathematics storybook: The case of four fifth graders. In Olanoff, D., Johnson, K., & Spitzer, S. M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 318–322). Philadelphia, PA.
Journal Article
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
Bofferding, L. & Aqazade, M. (2023). “Where does the square go?” Reinterpreting shapes when solving a Tangram puzzle. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 112, 25–47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-022-10166-0
Bofferding, L., Chen, L., Kocabas, S. & Aqazade, M. (2022). Early elementary students’ use of shape and location schemas when embedding and disembedding. Education Sciences, 12(83). https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12020083
Aqazade, M. & Bofferding, L. (2021). Second and fifth graders’ use of knowledge-pieces and knowledge-structures when solving integer addition problems. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 7(2), 82–103. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.6563
Aqazade, M. (2022). The role of interactive features within a mathematics storybook in interpreting a conflict and conflict resolution: The case of three fifth graders. Education Sciences, 12(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12120879