Rebecca Ambrose
Associate Professor of Education
Phone: (530) 754-4831
Email: rcambrose@ucdavis.edu
After teaching middle school math for ten years, I decided to pursue a PhD to get a fresh perspective on the issues I observed every day in my classroom and thought that maybe I could help develop remedies that would help other teachers, as well.
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Expertise
Elementary Education; Gender and equity issues in mathematics education; In-service and preservice teacher learning; Mathematics education
Education
- Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin, Madison - 1998
Awards and Honors
- Markham Mathematics Collaborative, Improving Teacher Quality Grant from California Post-Secondary Education Commission, 1/04-6/06.
- Scholarship and Creativity Award. SDSU College of Education. 2000-2001.
- Scholarship and Creativity Award. SDSU College of Education. 1999-2000.
Associations, Boards & Committees
- Representative for School of Education, Library Committee, 2005-present.
- Presenter. Children’s Geometry Thinking, California Mathematics Council, Southern Conference. Palm Springs, CA. 2006.
- Facilitator. Markham Elementary School Mathematics Collaborative, Vacaville, CA. 2003-2006.
- Presenter. Seminar on Children’s Geometry Thinking. Minneapolis, MN. 2004.
- Reviewer, Sex roles: A Journal of Research, 2003.
- Presenter. Cognitively Guided Instruction National Conference. Minneapolis, MN. 2002.
- Presenter. Cognitively Guided Instruction National Conference. Phoenix, AZ. 2000.
- Member. San Diego Unified School District Math Specialist Initiative. San Diego, CA. 2000.
- Reviewer, Teaching Children in Mathematics, 1997-present.
- Reviewer, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1998-present.
- Presenter. Cognitively Guided Instruction National Conference. Madison, WI. 1995.
Funded Research
- NSF Funded Research Projects
- Associate Researcher, Integrating Mathematics and Pedagogy (IMAP), San Diego State University.
- http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/CRMSE/IMAP/main.html