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Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Associate Dean/Director
Division of Science and Mathematics Education
210 N. Kedzie Lab
(51) 432-1490
jferrini@msu.edu
Joan Ferrini-Mundy is associate dean for Science and Mathematics Education in the College of Natural Science, as well as director of the Division of Science and Mathematics Education at Michigan State University.
Her faculty appointments are in mathematics and teacher education. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics education from the University of New Hampshire and was a faculty member in mathematics there from 1983-1999. Dr. Ferrini-Mundy taught mathematics at Mount Holyoke College in 1982-1983, where she co-founded the Summer Math for Teachers program. She served as a visiting scientist at the National Science Foundation, 1989-1991.
She has chaired the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ (NCTM) Research Advisory Committee, served on the NCTM Board of Directors, and chaired the Writing Group for Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
Ferrini-Mundy came to MSU in 1999 from the National Research Council’s Center for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Education where she served as director of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board, and associate director of the Center.
Her research interests are in calculus learning, teacher knowledge and mathematics education reform, K-14. Currently she is PI for PROM/SE, an NSF Comprehensive Mathematics and Science Partnership, and co-PI for MSU’s Teachers for a New Era project, a universitywide effort to improve teacher education, funded by the Carnegie Corporation. She has a research grant with other MSU colleagues to study secondary school teachers’ knowledge for the teaching of algebra.
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