Presentations

Stevens, I. E. (2024, March). What does A=2rh tells us?: The role of multiplicative objects in students’ reasoning with formulas. Invited presentation at the Texas State University Mathematics Education Seminar. San Marcos, TX (online). 

Stevens, I. E. (2020, May). Dissertation and beyond: A reflection on the end of graduate school. Invited seminar leader for the Montclair University Department of Mathematics Dissertation Proposal Seminar.

Stevens, I. E. (2020, April). Supporting students developing meanings for variable. Invited seminar leader for the Montclair University Department of Mathematics Dissertation Proposal Seminar.

Stevens, I. E. (2020, February). The role of multiplicative objects in a formula. Invited presentation at the Joint National Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. Denver, CO.

Stevens, I. E. (2018, April). Exploring Preservice Teachers’ Imagery and Construction of Formulas. Online presentation for the Clemson University Department of Teaching and Learning First Year Seminar. Clemson, SC.

Moore, K. C. & Stevens, I. E. (2016, October). Broadening students' graphing experiences. Invited presentation at the 57th Georgia Mathematics Conference. Eatonton, GA. Oct. 20, 2016. 

Moore, K. C., Stevens, I., LaForest, K. (2014, October). Functions as relationships and quantitative reasoning. 55th Georgia Mathematics Conference. Eatonton, GA.

Moore, K. C., Tasova, H. I., Stevens, I. E., & Liang, B. (2024, Nov.) Competing meanings, perturbations, and engendering shifts in (prospective) teachers meanings. Presented at the Forty-sixth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Kent State University, Columbus, OH. 

Stevens, I. E., Hardison, H., & Brown, A. (2024, Nov.). High school students’ figurative and operative thought when reasoning about distances. Presented at the forty-sixth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Kent State University, Columbus, OH. 

Stevens, I. E. (2024, July). What A=2rh tells us: A framework for multiplicative objects with formulas. Operationalizing re-presentation to investigate and support students’ covariational reasoning. Paper presented at the 47th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. PME. Auckland, New Zealand.

Moore, K. C., Wood, E., Yasuda, S., Liang, B., Stevens, I. E., Tasova, H. (2024, July). Operationalizing re-presentation to investigate and support students’ covariational reasoning. Paper presented at the 47th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Auckland, New Zealand.

Stevens, I. E. (2024, July). Lessons learned from teaching experiments to support covariational reasoning with formulas. Presented at the 15th International Congress on Mathematics Education. Sydney, Australia.

Moore, K. C., Stevens, I. E., Waswa, A., & Yasuda, S. (2024, February). The Precalculus Concept Assessment (PCA) and prospective secondary teachers. Poster presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. Omaha, NE.

Pratt, J., Google, A., & Stevens, I. E. (2024, March). Reconceptualizing inclusivity in introductory STEM undergraduate education. Presented at the University of Rhode Island’s Office for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning’s Innovative Education Conference. Virtual. 

Stevens, I. E., Tolchinsky, J., & Robillard, M. (2024, February). What is the correct amount of change? Understanding the impact of Kala’s covariational reasoning when selecting amounts of change. Paper presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. Omaha, NE. 

Stevens, I. E. (2023, October). Implications of faster/slower language on undergraduate precalculus students' graphing. Paper presented at 2023 forty-fifth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Reno, NV.

Schwarts, G., Herbst, P., Stevens, I. E., & Brown, A. (2023, April). Beyond correctness: What do teachers notice about student work produced in problem-based lessons. Paper presented as round table at the 2023 Annual Meeting for the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Chicago, IL.

Stevens, I. E. (2023, February). Magnitude Bars and Covariational Reasoning. Paper presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (SIGMAA on RUME) Conference. Omaha, NE.

Stevens, I. E. (2023, January). Active learning of covariational reasoning in an undergraduate precalculus course. Abstract presented at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings. Boston, MA.

Schwarts, G., Stevens, I. E., Herbst, P., & Brown, A. (2022, November). “It’s a different mindset here”: Facilitation challenges in a practice-based professional development. Paper presented at the 2022 forty-fourth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Nashville, TN.

Stevens, I. E. (2022, October). The value of covariational reasoning in Introductory STEM courses. Presentation at the 6th Northeast Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (NE RUME) Conference. Virtual. 

Stevens, I. E. (2022, September). Using magnitude bars to support students’ representations of dynamic objects. Presentation at the 2022 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Annual Meeting and Exposition. Los Angeles, CA.

Stevens, I. E. (2022, February). “A=2πrh is the Surface Area for a Cylinder”: Figurative and Operative Thought with a Formula Re-presenting Relationships in Dynamic Geometric Contexts. Paper presented at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (SIGMAA on RUME) Conference. Boston, MA.

Stevens, I. E., Boileau, N., Bridges, S., Brown, A., & Herbst, P. (2022, February). Timing as a Complexity in Teaching. Paper presented as round table at the 2022 Annual Meeting for the American Educational Research Association (AERA). San Diego, CA.

Herbst, P., Brown, A., Stevens, I. E. (2022, February). The evolution of StoryCircles: An online professional learning approach to attend to practice in context. Paper presented as round table at the 2022 Annual Meeting for the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.

Herbst, P., Milewski, A., Stevens, I. E., Huhn, C., Lorenz, R. & Strickland, S. (2022, February). Supporting synchronous and asynchronous study of secondary mathematics lessons among colleagues: Designs, technologies, and facilitation. Paper presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.

Stevens, I. E. & Herbst, P. (2021, October). “What got flipped?”: Teacher’s use of contrasting conceptions to support students’ development of inverse functions . Presented at the 43rd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Philadelphia, PA.  

Stevens, I. E., & Boileau, N. (2021, October). Understanding student behaviour as evidence of student conceptions and instructional norms. Presented at the 43rd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Philadelphia, PA. 

Spiteri, A., Stevens, I. E., & Herbst, P. (2021, October). Supporting the construction of variables in an inverse function context through targeted questions. Presented at the 43rd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Philadelphia, PA. 

Stevens, I. E. (2021, June).“Solving versus relating”: Pre-Service Teachers’ Conflicting Images of Formulas and Dynamic Contexts. Paper presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico.

*Recording of presentation available upon request. 

Stevens, I. E., Ko, I., Paoletti, T., Boileau, N., & Herbst, P. (2021, June). Introducing inverse function to high school students: Relating convention and reasoning. Paper presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico.

*Recording of presentation available upon request. 

Stevens, I. E. (2021, February). Multiple ways of understanding geometric formulas via covariational reasoning. Paper presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. (virtual conference)

Stevens, I. E., Herbst, P., Bardelli, E., & Milewski, A. (2020, March). Supporting Discussions About Teachers’ Practical Knowledge via StoryCircles. Presentation at the 2020 Annual Michigan Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference: Conversations Among Colleagues. Ann Arbor, MI. 

Moore, K. C.,  Liang, B., Stevens, I. E., Tasova, H. I., Paoletti, T., & Ying, Y. (2020, February).  A Quantitative Reasoning Framing of Concept Construction. Paper presented at the Twenty-Third Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (SIGMAA on RUME) Conference. Boston, MA.

Stevens, I. E. (2020, February). Elementary School Geometry to University Level Calculus: Building Upon Learning Trajectories Rooted in Covariational Reasoning with Area Contexts to Support Covariational Reasoning Related to Implicit Differentiation. Poster presented at the Twenty-Third Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (SIGMAA on RUME) Conference. Boston, MA.

Herbst, P., Stevens, I. E., Milewski, A., Ion, M., & Ko, I. (2020, January). State of the undergraduate Geometry courses for secondary Teachers: Curriculum, instructional practices, and student achievement. Abstract presented at the Joint National Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. Denver, CO.

Moore, K. C., Liang, B., Tasova, H. I., & Stevens, I. E. (2019, November). Abstracted quantitative structures. Paper presented at the 41st annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. St. Louis, MO.

Stevens, I. E. (2019, February). The role of multiplicative objects in a formula. Paper presented at the Twenty-Second Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (SIGMAA on RUME) Conference. Oklahoma City, OK.

Stevens, I. E. (2019, February). Using a dynamic geometric context to support students’ constructions of variables. Paper presented at the Twenty-Second Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (SIGMAA on RUME) Conference. Oklahoma City, OK.

Moore, K., Stevens, I. E., Liang, B., & Tasova, H. (2019, January). Concept construction and abstracted quantitative structure. Abstract presented at the Joint National Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. Baltimore, MD. 

Tasova, H. I., Liang, B., Stevens, I. E., Moore, K. C. (2019, January). Characterizing two undergraduate students’ quantitative comparisons of covarying quantities’ magnitudes. Abstract presented at the Joint National Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. Baltimore, MD. 

Stevens, I. E. (2018, November). The parallelogram problem: Supporting covariational reasoning in the construction of formulas. Paper presented at the 40th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Greenville, SC. 

Liang, B., Stevens, I. E., Tasova, H. I., & Moore, K. C. (2018, November). Magnitude reasoning: Characterizing a pre-calculus student's quantitative comparison between covarying magnitudes. Paper presented at the 40th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Greenville, SC.  

Tasova, H. & Stevens, I. (2018, October). A special content knowledge task on functions and rate of change. Abstract presented at the 59th annual Georgia Mathematics Conference. Eagleton, GA.

Liang, B., Stevens, I. E., & Tasova, H. I. (2018, March). Documenting college students’ meanings for partitioning activity. Poster presented at the 2018 College of Education Research Conference at University of Georgia. Athens, GA.

Stevens, I. E. (2018, February). Insights into students' images of a geometric object and its formula from a covariational reasoning perspective. Paper presented at the Twenty-First Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. San Diego, CA.

Tasova, H. I.,  Stevens, I. E., & Moore, K. C. (2018, February). A framework for analyzing written curriculum from a shape-thinking and (co)variational reasoning perspective. Paper presented at the Twenty-First Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. San Diego, CA. 

Stevens, I. E. (2018, January). How a pre-calculus student was able to reason about rates of change using magnitudes. Abstract presented at the Joint National Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. San Diego, CA.

Stevens, I. E. & Moore, K. C. (2017, October). The role of quantification and operative thought in a students' all-encompassing meaning for a graph. Presentation at the 11th Annual Georgia Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Eatonton, GA.

Stevens, I. E. & Liang, B. (2017, October). Exploring linear relationships using various coordinate systems. Presentation at the 58th Georgia Mathematics Conference. Eatonton, GA.

Hardison, H., Stevens, I. E., Lee, H. Y., & Moore, K. C. (2017, October). Lydia's circle concept: The intersection of figurative thought and covariational reasoning. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Indianapolis, IN.

Stevens, I. E. & Moore, K. C. (2017, October). The intersection between quantification and an all-encompassing meaning for a graph. Paper presented at the 39th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Indianapolis, IN.

Stevens, I. E. (2017, July). A critical examination of the critiques of radical constructivism as an epistemology for education. Paper presented at the 41st Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Singapore.

Tasova, H. I. & Stevens, I. E. (2017, April).An analysis of U.S. and Turkish textbooks through a shape thinking perspective: Linear functions. Poster presentation at the University of Georgia's College of Education Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference. Athens, GA.  

Stevens, I. E., Paoletti, Moore, K. C., Liang, B., & Hardison, H. (2017, February). Principles for designing tasks that promote covariational reasoning. Paper presented at the Twentieth Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. San Diego, CA.

Stevens, I. E. & Moore, K. C. (2017, January). A case study: When graphs contain everything Abstract presented at the Joint National Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. Atlanta, GA.

Stevens, I. E. (2017, January). Topological data analysis of students’ responses to MAA surveys on college calculus. Abstract presented at the Joint National Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. Atlanta, GA.

Stevens, I. E. & Moore, K. C. (2016, November). The ferris wheel and justifications of curvature. Paper presented at the 38th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Tucson, AZ.

Stevens, I. E. & Liang, B. (2016, October). Exploring mathematical relationships of an amusement park ride. Presentation at the 57th Georgia Mathematics Conference. Eatonton, GA.

Stevens, I. E., & Liang, B. (2016, October). Exploring the mathematics of ferris wheels. Presentation at the 10th Annual Georgia Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Eatonton, GA. 

Paoletti, T., Moore, K. C., & Stevens, I. E. (2016, July). Task-design principles for covariational reasoning. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME). Hamburg, Germany.  

Stevens, I. E., & Moore, K. C. (2016, July). Undergraduate students’ graphing habits. Poster presented at the Thirteenth International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME). Hamburg, Germany. 

Stevens, I. E., & Moore, K. C. (2016, April). “I think I’m missing something”: How habits of graphing can impact students’ representations. Poster presentation at the University of Georgia's College of Education Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference. Athens, GA.

Hobson, N. L. F., Moore, K. C., Stevens, I. E., Liang, B., & Mauldin, K. D. (2016, March). Providing students experiences to model novel situations. Abstract presented at the American Mathematics Society Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting at the University of Georgia. Athens, GA.

Moore, K. C., Paoletti, T., Stevens, I. E., & Hobson, N. L. F. (2016, February). Graphing habits: “I just don’t like that”. Paper presented at the Nineteenth Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. Pittsburgh, PA.

Stevens, I. E., Hobson, N. L. F., Moore, K. C., Paoletti, T., LaForest, K. R., & Mauldin, K. D. (2015, November). Changing cones: Themes in students' representation of a dynamic situation. Paper presented at the 37th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. East Lansing, MI.

Paoletti, T., Mauldin, K. D., Moore, K. C., Stevens, I. E., Hobson, N. L. F., & LaForest, K. R. (2015, November). Changing cones: Students’ images of a dynamic situation. Paper presented as a poster at the 37th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. East Lansing, MI.

Stevens, I. E.,  LaForest, K. R., Hobson, N. L. F.,  Paoletti, T., & Moore, K. C. (2015, November). Undergraduate students’ inverse strategies and meanings. Paper presented as a poster at the 37th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. East Lansing, MI.

Stevens, I. E. (2015, October) Changing cones and covariational reasoning. Presentation at the 56th Georgia MathematicsConference. Eagleton, GA.

Paoletti, T., Stevens, I. E., Hobson, Natalie L. F., LaForest, K. R., & Moore, K. C. (2015, February). Pre-service teachers' inverse function meanings. Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. Pittsburgh, PA.

Mauldin, K. D., Paoletti, T., Moore, K. C., LaForest, K. R., Stevens, I. E., Hobson, N. L. F. (2015, February). Changing cones: Students’ images of a dynamic situation. Poster presentation at the University of Georgia's College of Education Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference. Athens, GA. 

Stevens, I. E., LaForest, K. R., Mauldin, K. D., Hobson, N. L. F., Paoletti, T., Moore, K. C. (2015, February). Making sense of inverses: Preservice teachers’ inverse meanings. Poster presentated at the University of Georgia's College of Education Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference. Athens, GA. 

(* indicates invited address)

*Stevens, I. E. (2023, May). How do Students Make Sense of Mathematical Formulas?. Invited panelist at the University of Rhode Island 2023 Academic Showcase. Kingston, RI.

*Stevens, I. E. (2023, March). What is Mathematics Education Research?. Invited guest lecturer for the University of Rhode Island Feinstein College of Education and Professional Studies EDC 586: College Teaching.

*Stevens, I. E. (2022, November). Researching student learning and teacher decision making in mathematics. Invited speaker for the University of Rhode Island Office for the Advancement for Teaching and Learning’s Scholarship on Teaching & Learning (SOTL) Reading Group. Kingston, RI.

*Stevens, I. E. (2019, December). What Happens When Students Get the "Right" Answer but Don't Think They Do? An Exploration of Students' Conflicting Images and Their Relation to Covariational Reasoning and Formulas. Presented at the EMST Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop. Ann Arbor, MI.

*Stevens, I. E. (2019, March). What research has taught us about undergraduate calculus students. Presented at the University of Georgia Street Mathematics and Related Topics (SMARTS) Seminar. Athens, GA. 

*Stevens, I. E. (2018, January). Exploring preservice teachers’ imagery and construction of formulas. Presentation at the University of Georgia Department of Mathematics and Science Education Graduate Student Presentations and Faculty Panel. Athens, GA. 

Stevens, I. E., & Liang, B. (2016, October). Exploring mathematical relationships of an amusement park ride. Presentation at the University of Georgia Mathematics Education Graduate Student Seminar. Athens, GA.

Stevens, I. E. (2016, April). A Proposed Study into Preservice Teachers’ Meanings for Symbolic Representations. Poster presentation at the University of Georgia's First Annual EMAT 9640 and ESCI 9630 Presentations. Athens, GA.

*Paoletti, T., Stevens, I. E., Hobson, N. L. F., LaForest, K. R., & Moore, K. C. (2015, January). Undergraduate students’ inverse strategies and meanings. Presentation at the University of Georgia Mathematics Teaching Seminar. Athens, GA.  

Stevens, I. E. (2012, July). Statistical Modeling of Gene Duplication. Poster presented at the First Annual Charlotte Research Scholars Symposium. Charlotte, NC.