Releasing my first few explanation videos.

NCTM 2019 and JRME 2009 now exist as brief videos.

“It just got Real” – Backing into Social Justice Part 1 (NCTM, 2019)

“It just got Real” – Backing into Social Justice Part 2 (NCTM, 2019)

Prospective Teachers Conception of Number (JRME, 2009)

Article Discussion on Pondering Identities: A Story On Being a Mathematics Educator and a Mother of Three.

Please feel free to discuss and comment on the article.

Link to the article

Winner of AMTE Early Career Award 2015

link to AMTE awards page 

Co-Editor of Special Issue of The Mathematics Enthusiast

Special Issue: The Mathematical Content Knowledge of Elementary Prospective Teachers Guest Edited by Eva Thanheiser & Christine Browning

PME 38 presentations

Co-author of one research report and two short oral presentations

Sigma Xi Award Winner

Sigma Xi Winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award for Math 2014

Published in the Journal for Mathematics Teacher Education

Thanheiser, E. (2014). Developing prospective teachers’ conceptions with well-designed tasks: explaining successes and analyzing conceptual difficulties. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education (online first).

Named Faculty in Residence for Pedagogy at Portland State University

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Collaboration with TaskMasters started

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DRK-12 funded

(Co – Principal Investigator) NSF DRK-12. Enhancing Mathematics Teaching and Learning in Urban Elementary Schools A Cluster-randomized Efficacy Trial of a Novel Professional Development Approach. Co-PIs:  Linda Formeman [Teachers Development Group and Grant PI], Jennifer Noll [PSU], Julie Fredricks [Teachers Development Group], Mike Shaughnessy [PSU – Emeritius]