John P. (Jack) Smith III
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education
509C Erickson Hall
(517) 353-6397 ( office )
Email: jsmith@msu.edu

 Website: http://jsmith.wiki.educ.msu.edu/

Jack Smith is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in CEPSE. His principal research interests concern the nature and development (i.e., long-term learning and change) of people's mathematical understandings, particularly around topics that students typically encounter in the middle years, grades 5 through 9, especially spatial measurement, algebraic expression and argument, and rational numbers. Other interests include mathematics use in workplaces, the relation of epistemology to learning, the role of intuitive understanding in learning mathematics and science, and the nature of teaching mathematics. His current research work focuses on analyzing the capacity for current elementary mathematics curricula (as written) to support students' learning of spatial measurement and working with practicing and pre-service teachers to understand measurement more deeply and teach it more effectively. He is the Principal Investigator of Strengthening Measurement, Curriculum, Teaching, and Research (STEM II).