Thank you for your interest in having your students participate in our research study on math learning! We look forward to working with you. 

In this study, students will solve order-of-operations problems in an online platform during their classroom time. The study will be conducted in 4 math class periods across the span of approximately 8 weeks. If you have any questions or want to learn more about what students will be doing in the activity, you can email us anytime for help or clarification (erottmar@wpi.edu or perceptualcues@gmail.com). 

how to participate & Questions

If you are interested in having your 6th grade math classrooms participate, please complete this form: 

https://tinyurl.com/perceptualcuesmath

After you complete the consent form, our research team  (Dr. Erin Ottmar, erottmar@wpi.edu) will follow up with an email with more information including a parent letter for you to send home to the families of your students informing them of this research project. 

A week after you send the letter home and parents have had the opportunity to opt out, you can assign the first activity. Each Friday, we will send you an email with the links, instructions, or timelines for the following week. For those teachers who have consented, below is a proposed timeline for your class.

For new teachers, we will follow up with your updated timeline by email once you have consented.  

Feel free to email our research team at erottmar@wpi.edu or perceptualcues@gmail.com with any questions you may have!