Speaker: Devin Hensley (Auburn University)

 

Title: Unmapped Territory for Topological Data Analysis: Mathematics Education

 

Abstract: Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME) has been around for decades and is a diverse field within the discipline-based education research (DBER). In this talk, I will discuss the evolution of RUME and its relation to the DBER community. I will describe my work, utilizing tools from algebraic topology, to model and analyze students' reasoning. This perspective treats mathematics as the framework for inquiry, giving a new way to represent and understand educational data.