Dr. Neet Priya Bajwa
Associate Professor
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
MAT 130.005 Dimensions Of Numerical Reasoning
MAT 402.001 Instructional Strategies For The Middle School Teacher
Ph D Mathematics Education
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL
MS Curriculum and Instruction
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL
BS Elementary Education
University of Delhi
Delhi, India
Faculty Impact Award
Illinois State University
2019
Service, Teaching, & Research (STaR) Fellow
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
2018
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Dissertation Research Grant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2016
Hardie Dissertation Award
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2015
Grants and Contracts
The Utilizing Number to Initative Fravtion Inquiry (UNIFI) for Students with Learning Disabilities
Beth L. MacDonald, Allison Kroesch, Jessica Hunt, Jeffrey Barrett, Neet Priya Bajwa, Jennifer Tobias, Julien Corven.
Illinois State University. 2023 - 2024
Book, Chapter
Transitioning to Online Teaching
Shuai Wang, Neet Priya Bajwa, Richard Tong, Hannah Kelly.
(2021), 177-188, 10.1007/978-981-15-7869-4_12, Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, Springer Singapore
Conference Proceeding
Fourth report: Working group on mathematics curriculum recommendations for elementary teacher preparation
Joseph DiNapoli, Tuyin An, Neet Priya Bajwa, Daniel Clark, Julien Corven, Kim Johnson, Bona Kang, Sara Kirschner, Kristy Litster, Valerie Long, Dana Olanoff, Jennifer Tobias, Hartono Tjoe, Jennifer Ward, Corey Webel, Nicole Wessman-Enzinger.
(2025)
Mathematics curriculum recommendations for elementary teacher preparation: Research colloquium
Joseph DiNapoli, Julien Corven, Tuyin An, Neet Priya Bajwa, Daniel Clark, Kim Johnson, Bona Kang, Kristy Litster, Valerie Long, Dana Olanoff, Jennifer Tobias, Nicole Wessman-Enzinger.
(2025)
Reimagining the emergent perspective within research-practice learning communities
Beth L. MacDonald, Amanda L Cullen, Allison M Kroesch, Neet Priya Bajwa, Edward Mooney, Julien Corven.
University of Nevada, Reno, 1, 910-915, (2023)
Developing prospective teachers’ representational fluency of whole number multiplication using array representations
Neet Priya Bajwa, Jennifer Tobias, Dana Olanoff, Rachael M. Welder.
PMENA, 10.51272/pmena.42.2020-272
Presentations
An analysis of recommendations for mathematics content courses for prospective elementary teachers
Dana Olanoff, Nicole Wessman-Enzinger, Jennifer Tobias, Neet Priya Bajwa, Kim Johnson.
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Annual Conference, University Park, PA, October, 2025
Navigating policy recommendations and their alignment for mathematics content courses for elementary teacher preparation
Nicole Wessman-Enzinger, Jennifer Tobias, Kim Johnson, Dana Olanoff, Neet Priya Bajwa.
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Reno, NV, February, 2025
Building elementary students’ multiplicative reasoning through arrays
Neet Priya Bajwa, Jennifer Tobias.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Chicago, IL, October, 2024
Arrays as Quick Images to Elicit Early Multiplicative Ideas
Neet Priya Bajwa, Jennifer Tobias.
International Congress on Mathematical Education, Sydney, Australia, July, 2024
Primary Students’ Use of Counting Strategies in Supporting Their Understanding of Arrays
Jennifer Tobias, Neet Priya Bajwa.
International Congress on Mathematical Education, Sydney, Australia, July, 2024
Reflecting on prospective teachers’ responses to understand task effectiveness and inform task modifications
Dana Olanoff, Rachael Welder, Neet Priya Bajwa, Jennifer Tobias.
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Orlando, FL, February, 2024
Reflecting on and evaluating tasks: What happens when learning goals are not met?
Dana Olanoff, Neet Priya Bajwa, Jennifer Tobias, Rachael Welder.
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Reno, NV, October, 2023
Developing Prospective Teachers’ Representational Fluency of Whole Number Multiplication Using Array Representations. North
Neet Priya Bajwa, Jennifer Tobias, Dana Olanoff, Rachael Welder.
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Annual Conference, Online, October, 2021
Using Arrays to Develop Students’ Strategies for Whole Number Multiplication
Jennifer Tobias, Neet Priya Bajwa, Dana Olanoff.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Online, April, 2021
Deepening Prospective Teachers’ Understandings by Focusing on Reflective Analysis Within Task Design
Jennifer Tobias, Neet Priya Bajwa, Dana Olanoff.
. Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Online, February, 2021
Tasks for Teachers: Approaches to the Design of Tasks for Preservice and Inservice Learners
Chandra Orrill, Dana Olanoff, Melissa Boston, R Brown, Jennifer Tobias, Neet Priya Bajwa, Eva Thanheiser, Rachael Welder, Amber Candela, Ziv Feldman.
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ, February, 2020
Solving Word Problems: Fostering Conceptual Understanding and Problem-Solving Skills.
Neet Priya Bajwa, Evthokia S Saclarides.
The Annual Meeting and Conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Diego, CA, April, 2019
Fostering Representational Fluency: Deepening Prospective Teachers’ Understanding of Multiplication
Neet Priya Bajwa, Rachael Welder, Ziv Feldman, Dana Olanoff, Jennifer Tobias, Eva Thanheiser.
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, February, 2019
Fostering Representational Fluency: Deepening Prospective Teachers’ Understanding of Multiplication.
Neet Priya Bajwa.
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, February, 2019
Using the Array Model to Develop Prospective Teachers’ Understanding of Multiplication and Its Properties
Dana Olanoff, Neet Priya Bajwa, Ziv Feldman, Eva Thanheiser, Rachael Welder, Jennifer Tobias.
Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Greenville, SC, November, 2018