All posts by Eva Thanheiser

Eva Thanheiser, Ph.D., Eva Thanheiser, is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Portland State University. She teaches content courses for elementary and middle school teachers as well as courses for PhD students in mathematics education. Her research interests include (1) developing preservice elementary teachers’ MKT with a particular emphasis on the following areas (a) motivation and engagement in the university classroom, (b) number and operation, and (c) connecting the university classroom to the K-12 environment and (2) studying inservice teacher professional development experiences.
Presentations

2013 PME-NA: Task Design in Mathematics Content Courses for Preservice Elementary Teachers: A Collaborative Approach

Thanheiser, E., Hillen, A., Olanoff, D., Feldman, Z., Welder, R. M., & Tobias, J. M. (November 2013). Task Design in Mathematics Content Courses for Preservice Elementary Teachers: A Collaborative Approach. Presentation at the 35th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Chicago, Illinois.

Slides (PME-NA 2013)
Handout (PME-NA 2013)
Publications

Task design in mathematics content courses for preservice elementary teachers: A collaborative approach

Thanheiser, E., Hillen, A., Olanoff, D., Feldman, Z., Welder, R. M., & Tobias, J. M. (2013). Task design in mathematics content courses for preservice elementary teachers: A collaborative approach. In M. V. Martinez & A. Castro Superfine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 893-896). Chicago, IL: University of Illinois at Chicago.