Meet the Team

Our team includes psychologists and mathematics educators who have worked with teachers and students for two decades. Since 1998 we have been collaborating with local schools in the Boston, MA, area, to develop innovative new approaches to early mathematics instruction. We view arithmetic and elementary algebra as intimately interwoven.

Do we think second grade students are capable of algebraic reasoning? Absolutely. And our research is all about looking carefully at how young learners express general relationships among numbers and quantities through written notation, tables, and diagrams.

Current Team Members

• Analúcia D. Schliemann, Professor of Education, Tufts University, co-Principal Investigator
• Bárbara M. Brizuela, Associate Professor of Education, Tufts University, co-Principal Investigator
• David W. Carraher, TERC, co-Principal Investigator
• Gabrielle A. Cayton, Ph.D. student, Tufts University
• Mary C. Caddle, Graduate student, Tufts University
• Candice Silberschatz, Graduate student, Tufts University
• Amelia St. Peter-Blair, Project Coordinator

Collaborators

• Mara V. Martinez, Assistant Professor, UIC Mathematics, Statistics, and computer Science
• Camille Burnett-Bradshaw, Graduate Student, Tufts University, Math teacher, Brighton High School
• Darrell Earnest, Graduate student, University of California, Berkeley
• Anne Goodrow, Assistant Professor of Education, Rhode Island College
• Susanna Lara-Roth, Guest Lecturer, Tufts University
• Jerry Karacz, Math Teacher, Pflugerville ISD
• Irit Peled, Haifa University, former Visiting Professor, Tufts University
• Judah L. Schwartz, Professor of Education, Tufts University
• Pat Thompson, Professor of Mathematics Education, Arizona State University
• Michelle Anderson
• Aadina Balti
• Candace Chick
• Karolyn McNeil

Schools

• East Somerville Community School, Somerville, MA
• Samuel W. Mason Elementary School, Boston, MA