Sam Otten
Email: ottensam@msu.edu

Website: https://www.msu.edu/~ottensam/

Sam received his secondary teaching certificate in mathematics from Grand Valley State University in 2006 and his master's degree in mathematics from Michigan State University in 2008. He served as a teaching assistant in the mathematics department at MSU for four semesters and is currently working as a research assistant for a discourse project with Beth Herbel-Eisenmann and an induction project with Ralph Putnam. His personal research interests have to do with mathematical processes (e.g., reasoning, proof, problem solving) at the middle school level and their relationship with classroom discourse.