Research
Recent Grants
2021-2023, Principal Investigator, Transitioning Secondary to Tertiary Educators' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching ($286,181), National Science Foundation Grant No. 2125969. The project website can be found here.
Select Publications and Articles
A.M. Ho, N. Borchelt, & S. Despeaux (2024). "Math Camp for Teachers." MathCircular, Spring 2024, 4-10. https://mathcircles.org/
C. Beckford, N. Burns, E. Campbell, J. Kingsley, & A.M. Ho (2023). "Nontraditional Pathways to Teaching Postsecondary Math: A Qualitative Study on Educators Between the Boundaries of High School and College." Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on RUME. Omaha, NE. http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/Site/Proceedings.html
A.M. Ho, J.J. McCauley, & T.T. Craig (2022). "Revisiting Prejudiced Polygons: Adapting a Familiar Activity During a Time of Unknowns." Journal of Math Circles, 2:2, 17-35. https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/mathcirclesjournal/vol2/iss2/3/.
S. Hill-Lindsay, A.M. Ho, M.E. Pilgrim, E.R. Miller (2022). "How Students Learn Math Best: Tutors’ Beliefs about Themselves Versus Their Tutees." Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on RUME. Boston, MA. http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/Site/Proceedings.html.
S.A. Fleming, J. Lind, & A.M. Ho (2021). "Status Updates: Increasing Communication through Calculus Pre-Reading Assignments." PRIMUS, 32:8, 843-857. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511970.2021.1940402.
A.M. Ho & M.E. Pilgrim (2020). “Communication and community: GTA perceptions on a professional development program.” Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on RUME, 1108-1113. Boston, MA. http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/Site/Proceedings.html.
A.M. Ho (2018). “Unlocking Ideas: Using escape room puzzles in a cryptography classroom.” PRIMUS, 28:9, 835-847. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511970.2018.1453568.
A.M. Ho & T.T. Craig (2017). “Polygons and Prejudice: Using a mathematical framework to guide a conversation about social issues.” MTCircular, Summer/Autumn 2017, 8-9. https://mathcircles.org/math-circular-magazine/.
Collaborators
Select Presentations
January 2024 - Invited speaker for the math education seminar at Florida International University
December 2023 - Invited speaker for the STEM Education Seminar Series at the University of Tennessee
June 2023 - Invited plenary speaker for North Carolina Network of Math Teachers’ Circles Summer Math Camp
February 2023 - "Nontraditional Pathways to Teaching Postsecondary Math: A Qualitative Study on Educators Between the Boundaries of High School and College." (with Charlotte Beckford, Nathan Burns, Emily K. Campbell, and Jessica L. Kingsley) - RUME
August 2022 - "High School vs. College Teaching: Perspectives from Math Educators with Experience in Both" (with Nathan Burns, Charlotte Beckford, Emily K. Campbell, and Jessica L. Kingsley) - MAA MathFest
April 2022 - Invited (virtual) talk on "Prejudiced Polygons ver 2.2" for Math Teachers' Circle at Hawaii
February 2022 - "How Students Learn Math Best: Tutors’ Beliefs about Themselves Versus Their Tutees" (with Sloan Hill-Lindsay, Mary E. Pilgrim, and Erica R. Miller) - RUME
October 2021 - Invited (virtual) panelist for the Diversity in Graduate Mathematics Education (paraDIGMS) conference
July 2021 - Invited plenary speaker for North Carolina Network of Math Teachers’ Circles Summer Math Camp
April 2021 - Invited (virtual) colloquium speaker on "Status Updates: Increasing Communication in Calculus Pre-Reading Assignments" for California State University, Chico - Department of Mathematics and Statistics
April 2021 - Invited (virtual) speaker on "Choose Your Own Math Education Adventure" for University of Chicago - Department of Mathematics
October 2020 - Invited (virtual) panelist for "Math Circles in Times of Physical Distancing" hosted by the Journal of Math Circles and the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival
Student Research
At the University of Tennessee, I advised Emily K. Campbell on her master's project, "Exploring the Autonomy of Instructors of High School and College Math" (2022). I was also on Dr. Shande King's dissertation committee in 2020. Dr. King worked with Professor Lynn Hodge (Theory and Practice in Teacher Education) on "The Effects of Small-Group Discourse in Collective Argumentation on Secondary Students' Mathematical Arguments and Mathematical Identities."
At Coastal Carolina University, I mentored four undergraduate students on their senior capstone projects. In 2017, I worked with Haley Bass ("Visual Cryptography with Applications to Banking") and Kahli Spencer ("Encrypting a Message to Ciphertext Using Single Stranded DNA"). In 2016, I worked with Kyle Eckhardt ("Visual Cryptography") and Sasha MacRobbie ("The Zombie Infection").