Dr. Tami Martin
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies & Professor
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 329C
Office Hours
By appointment
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Selected Research
Current Courses
MAT 599.004 Dissertation
MAT 211.001 Euclidean And Non-Euclidean Geometry
Teaching Interests & Areas
http://math.illinoisstate.edu/tsmartin/
Research Interests & Areas
Reasoning and proof
Role of technology in mathematics education
Geometry
Teaching and learning of secondary mathematics
https://math.illinoisstate.edu/faculty-staff/research-areas/
Grants and Contracts
Graduating Highly Effective Secondary Mathematics Teachers with Emphasis on Recruitment from Under-Represented Groups
McKenzie Alexander Clements, Saad I El Zanati, David Barker, Tami Martin, Michael Plantholt.
National Science Foundation. 2009
Graduating Highly-Qualied Secondary Mathematics Teachers with Emphasis on Recruitment from Underrepresented Groups
Saad I El Zanati, David Barker, McKenzie Alexander Clements, Tami Martin, Michael Plantholt.
National Science Foundation. May 1 2009 - April 30 2013
Conference Proceeding
Affordances of Spreadsheet Simulations in Exploring Randomness
Emmanuel Agyei, Craig Cullen, Tami S. Martin.
Proceedings of the forty-seventh Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, (2025)
Developing directed-length definitions for the tangent and secant functions
Tami S. Martin, Craig J. Cullen, Oscar Chavez, Kyle Kimball.
(2024), https://doi: 10.51272/pmena.46.2024
Exploring trigonometric relationships: Is it a function?
Craig J. Cullen, Tami S. Martin.
(2018)
Presentations
Affordances of Spreadsheet Simulations in Exploring Randomness.
Emmanuel Agyei, Craig Cullen, Tami Martin.
47th Annual Meeting of PME-NA, State College, PA, October 28, 2025
Honoring the Ancients' Legacies: Trigonometric Identities Through a Geometric Lens
Tami Martin, Craig Cullen, Roger Day, John Carter.
104th Annual National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference, Atlanta GA, October 18, 2025
Developing Directed-Length Definitions for the Tangent and Secant Functions
Tami S. Martin, Craig J. Cullen, Oscar Chavez, Kyle Kimball.
PME-NA, Cleveland, OH, November 9, 2024
Developing geometric concept definitions for tangent and secant
Craig Cullen, Tami Martin, Oscar Chavez.
51st Annual Conference of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning, Columbia SC, March 2, 2024
Creative Mathematical Reasoning and Key Curricular Content as an Evaluative Framework for Preservice Task Engagement.
Tami Martin, Craig Cullen.
24th Annual AMTE Conference, Phoenix, AZ, February 6, 2020
The role of creative reasoning in a technology-based task for preservice secondary teachers
Kelsey A Clarkson, Carrie A Lawton, Khadijeh Azimi Asmaroud, Tami S Martin, Craig J Cullen.
41st Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, St. Louis, MO, November, 2019
ISU Mathematics M.S. Program: High School Mathematics Education Sequence
Tami Martin, Gary Lewis.
Group for Education Research in Mathematics (GERM), Normal, IL, November, 2012
A Minute to Win it: Motivating Mathematics Connections
Tami Martin, Roger Day.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2012 Regional Conference and Exposition, Chicago, IL, November, 2012
Reasoning and Proof: Is it true? Convince me!
Tami Martin.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2012 Regional Conference and Exposition, Chicago, IL, November, 2012
A Minute to Win it: Motivating Mathematics Connections
Tami Martin, Roger Day.
S-STEM Scholar Meeting, Normal, IL, November, 2012
EPIC: Engaging Projects in Calculus
Tami Martin, Roger Day.
The School District of Palm Beach County K-12 Preschool Conference: Stepping Toward Common Core, Lake Worth, FL, August, 2012
Raisin’ Expectations: Beyond Measures of Central Tendency in Statistics and Data Analysis
Tami Martin, Roger Day.
The School District of Palm Beach County K-12 Preschool Conference: Stepping Toward Common Core, Lake Worth, FL, August, 2012
A Reason to Reason: Rich Problems and Interactive Tools
Tami Martin, Craig Cullen, Roger Day.
Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2012
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
Tami Martin, Cynthia Langrall.
Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Research Presession, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2012
Motivating Mathematics in Chicago (MMC) using MTWI games
Tami Martin, Roger Day.
Metropolitan Mathematics Club meeting, Chicago, IL, October, 2011
Making Sense of Relationships through Modeling
Tami Martin, Roger Day.
NCTM Interactive Institute on High School Mathematics: Infusing the Classroom with Reasoning and Sense Making, Orlando, FL, July, 2011
Making Sense of Structure through Patterns.
Tami Martin, Roger Day.
NCTM Interactive Institute on High School Mathematics: Infusing the Classroom with Reasoning and Sense Making, Orlando, FL, July, 2011
All algebra all the time: Using Netbooks in Algebra 1
Tami Martin, Roger Day, Ashley Thurnau, Chad Shepherd, Jake Krause.
Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Indianapolis, IN, April, 2011
All algebra all the time: One-to-one computers in Algebra 1
Tami Martin, Roger Day, Ashley Thurnau.
ICTM 61st Annual Meeting and Conference, Springfield, IL, October, 2010
Exploring the teacher’s role in a discourse-rich environment to promote proving in the secondary school
Tami Martin, Gary Lewis, Darshan Jain, Roger Day.
Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Columbus, OH, October, 2010
So You've Got a SMART™ Board: Now What?
Tami Martin, Roger Day, Chad Shepherd.
Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Diego, CA, April, 2010
Thoughts about preparation of secondary mathematics teachers
Tami Martin.
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Science and Mathematics Teachers Preparation Colloquium, Indianapolis, IN, March, 2010
Teachers’ knowledge of algebraic generalization: Its organization for instruction
David Barker, J K Lannin, B E Townsend, Tami Martin, F Arbaugh.
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, March, 2008
The role of representation in developing generalizations
David Barker, J K Lannin, Tami Martin, B E Townsend.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Presession, Atlanta, GA, March, 2007
Teachers affect on students’ understanding of proof
Tami Martin, Sharon McCrone, Cindy Pulley.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 79th Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 6, 2001