About Me
I am Susan Empson, a professor of Science and Mathematics Education at The University of Texas at Austin. I study the teaching and learning of mathematics, especially the mathematics of the number strand (such as fractions), and teacher-student interactions in elementary and middle-school classrooms. My current work focuses on the relationship between teaching practices and student engagement and on how teachers help struggling students in particular learn mathematics with understanding and confidence. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation, and published in such journals as Cognition and Instruction, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Teaching Children Mathematics, and Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education. I earned my PhD in Mathematics Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I worked for seven years on the Cognitively Guided Instruction project (not all as a graduate student, for those of you wondering just how long it takes to get a PhD). Before going back to graduate school, I was a high school mathematics teacher in inner city New York at A. Philip Randolph High School, and in the Peace Corps, in Morocco.
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