Professor of Mathematics Education, Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Ed.D, Mathematics Education, University of Georgia

Dr. Thompson joined the ASU faculty in 2005 after serving at Vanderbilt University, San Diego State University, Illinois State University and the University of Georgia. He is an editor of the journal Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education and associate editor of the journal Cognition and Instruction…CV

Research Interests

• Uses of technology to support mathematics teaching and learning
• Longitudinal development of mathematical concepts from arithmetic to calculus
• Relationship between teachers’ mathematical understandings and instructional practices

• Radical Constructivism: Reflections and Directions
• Didactic Objects and Didactic Models in Radical Constructivism
• Intricacies of Statistical Inference and Teachers' Understanding of Them
• The Design of Tasks in Support of Teachers' Development of Coherent Mathematical Meanings
• The Concept of Accumulation in Calculus

Journal Affiliations

• Cognition and Instruction
  
• Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education