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Marta T. Magiera is a Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Marquette University. She is interested in the mathematical cognition of doing mathematics and conducts research in both theoretical and applied aspects of mathematics education and mathematics teacher education. Her primary work focuses on the nature of mathematical thinking, teaching, and learning and addresses practicing and pre-service mathematics teachers’ development in the area of mathematical reasoning and proof, problem-solving, and mathematical modeling.

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Marta T. Magiera is a Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Marquette University. She is interested in the mathematical cognition of doing mathematics and conducts research in both theoretical and applied aspects of mathematics education and mathematics teacher education. Her primary work focuses on the nature of mathematical thinking, teaching, and learning and addresses practicing and pre-service mathematics teachers’ development in the area of mathematical reasoning and proof, problem-solving, and mathematical modeling.

Present	Professor, Marquette University ‐ Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
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Science and Mathematics Education, Teacher Education and Professional Development, and Mathematics

algebraic thinking, reasoning and proof, mathematical modeling, teacher education and mathematics and computer science education

Journal Articles (13)

Connecting mathematical modeling and social justice through problem posing

Mathematical Thinking and Learning (2023)

Hyunyi Jung and Marta T. Magiera

Exploring prospective 1-8 teachers’ number and operation sense in the ...

Journal of Mathematics Education (2021)

Marta T. Magiera and Leigh A. van den Kieboom

Prospective teachers’ noticing of student justifications and generalizations in the ...

International Journal of STEM Education. (2021)

Marta T. Magiera and Vecihi S. Zambak

Background: This paper contributes to current discussions about supporting prospective teachers (PSTs) in developing skills of noticing students’ mathematical thinking. ...

Supporting grades 1-8 PSTs’ argumentation skills: Constructing mathematical arguments in ...

International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (2020)

Vecihi S. Zambak and Marta T. Magiera

We report on a teaching experiment with pre-service teachers (PSTs) intended to support their understanding of the validity of mathematical ...

Exploring prospective teachers’ ability to generate and analyze evidence-based explanatory ...

International Journal of Research in Education and Science (IJRES) (2020)

Marta T. Magiera and Vecihi S. Zambak

In this paper, using written responses of 37 PSTs preparing to teach grades 1-8 mathematics, we examined explanations they constructed ...

Pre-service K-8 teachers’ professional noticing and strategy evaluation skills: An ...

EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (2018)

Vecihi S. Zambak and Marta T. Magiera

This study sheds light on three teaching competencies: Pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) professional noticing of student mathematical reasoning and strategies, their ...

K-8 pre-service teachers’ algebraic thinking: Exploring the habit of mind ...

Mathematics Teachers Education and Development Journal (2017)

Marta T. Magiera, Leigh A. van den Kieboom and John C. Moyer

In this study, we examined the ability of grades 1-8 pre-service teachers (PSTs) to engage in thinking about patterns, relationships, ...

Exploring the relationship between K-8 prospective teachers’ algebraic thinking proficiency ...

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education (2014)

Leigh A. van den Kieboom, Marta T Magiera and John C. Moyer

In this study, we explored the relationship between prospective teachers’ algebraic thinking and the questions they posed during one-on-one diagnostic ...

An exploratory study of pre-service middle school teachers’ knowledge of ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics (2013)

Marta T Magiera, Leigh A. van den Kieboom and John C. Moyer

Using algebraic habits of mind as a framework, and focusing on thinking about functions and how they work, we examined ...

Model eliciting activities: A home run

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (2013)

Marta T Magiera

A proposal for a problem-driven mathematics curriculum framework

The Mathematics Enthusiast (2013)

Marta T. Magiera, Judith S. Zawojewski and Richard Lesh

A framework for a problem-driven mathematics curriculum is proposed, grounded in the assumption that students learn mathematics while engaged in ...

Cultivating Algebraic Representations

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (2012)

Leigh A. van den Kieboom and Marta T Magiera

Characterizations of Social-Based and Self-Based Contexts Associated With Students' Awareness ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (2011)

Marta T Magiera and Judith S. Zawojewski

This exploratory study focused on characterizing problem-solving situations associatedwith spontaneous metacognitive activity. The results came from connected casestudies of a ...

Contribution to Book

Explanatory writing: A window into K-8 prospective teachers’ reasoning about ...

Illuminating and advancing the path for mathematical writing research (2024)

Marta T. Magiera and Mohammad Al-younes

This chapter contributes to broader research on mathematical discourse and its multimodal forms that reveal how students interpret, make meanings ...

Contribution to Book

Supporting pre-service teachers’ argumentation-focused visions of mathematics teaching and learning ...

Global perspectives and practices in reform-based mathematics teaching (2022)

Marta T. Magiera, Vecihi S. Zambak and Hyejin Park

This chapter describes the design of integrated learning spaces (ILS) for prospective teachers (PSTs) tosupport PSTs’ learning about reform-based teaching ...

Contribution to Book

Principles for designing research settings to study spontaneous metacognitive activity

Affect in mathematical modeling (2019)

Marta T. Magiera and Judith S. Zawojewski

Drawing on current theories about the development of individuals’ metacognitive ability, a framework is proposed for designing fruitful environments for ...

Contribution to Book

Learning to notice student thinking about the equal sign: K-8 ...

Teacher noticing – Bridging and broadening perspectives, contexts, and frameworks (2017)

Leigh A. van den Kieboom, Marta T Magiera and John C. Moyer

In this chapter, we present our work and research related to preservice teacher (PST) noticing, describing how we provide PSTs with ...

Contribution to Book

Developing Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical and Pedagogical Knowledge Using an Integrated ...

Mathematics teaching: Putting research into practice at all levels (2010)

Leigh A. van den Kieboom and Marta T. Magiera

This paper describes how an integrated mathematics content and early field-experience course provides opportunities for preservice elementary teachers to develop ...

Prospective elementary school teachers’ perceptions of STEM thinking and their ...

Proceedings of the forty-fifth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (2023)

Marta T. Magiera and Mohammad Al-younes

The story of VCAST-SIG: Collaborative approaches that enhance MTEs' professional ...

Proceedings of the forty-fifth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (2023)

Nirmala Naresh, Marta T. Magiera, Kanita DuCloux, Laurie O. Cavey, et al.

Preservice teachers' learning about elementary students' mathematical reasoning

Proceedings of the forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (2021)

Marta T. Magiera and Park Hyejin

We report on a study with 23 PSTs preparing to teach grades 1-8 who were engaged in analyzing a series ...

Pre-service teachers’ interpretations of mathematical reasoning

Mathematics Education Across Cultures: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (2020)

Hyejin Park and Marta T. Magiera

Calls for teaching school mathematics with a focus on mathematical reasoning (MR) are included incurricular documents across the world, but ...

Prospective K-8 teachers’ problem-posing: Interpretations of tasks that promote mathematical ...

Mathematics Education Across Cultures: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (2020)

Marta T. Magiera

This study examines pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) views of tasks that engage students inmathematical argumentation. Data were collected in two different ...

Pre-service teachers’ conceptions of mathematical argumentation

2019 Proceedings of the forty-first annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (2019)

Hyejin Park and Marta T. Magiera

Drawing on a situated perspective on learning, we analyzed written, open-ended journals of 52pre-service teachers (PSTs) concurrently enrolled in mathematics ...

Working together: A cross-cultural study addressing mathematics anxiety in K-8 ...

The Mathematics Education for the Future Project, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference. Theory and Practice: An Interface or a Great Divide? (2019)

Heidi B. Hansen and Marta T Magiera

This study presents data from research on K-8 pre-service teachers’ math anxiety across three universities: one public, one private and ...