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By Anna Chiang, November 18, 2020 Elise Levin-Güracar is a research associate at SRI International and has been a part of the MPACT team for two years. She moved into education research after teaching 7th grade math. She received her teaching ...

By Anna Chiang, December 4, 2020 Q. Will you tell us a little bit about your professional background? I develop learning activity systems that integrate teacher professional development, curriculum, assessment, and technology to support the learning of critical mathematics. I have been working ...

By Anna Chiang, February 10, 2021 Q. Can you tell us a little bit about your professional background? I am an education policy researcher at SRI International Center for Education Research and Innovation. I work on several studies that seek to inform policies ...

This Fall 5th grade teacher Ellie Schoelen was one of the small group of MPACT teacher fellows to pilot MPACT lessons in their classroom. We caught up with Ellie this week to hear about her experiences teaching MPACT. Some of ...

by Jennifer Knudsen, Hee-Joon Kim, Harriette Stevens, & Elise Levin-Guracar, August 1, 2019 In the MPACT program, fifth grade students are challenged to make the seven pieces of the Soma Cube puzzle. The Soma cube puzzle follows a set of rules ...

by Elise Levin-Guracar, May 7, 2019 Spatial thinking involves imagining, seeing, and drawing space. This includes thinking about the location of objects, their shapes, how they transform, and what they look like in relation to other objects. Picture a flat piece ...

by Satabdi Basu, April 1, 2019 MPACT is not restricted to only math—we also address thinking skills for computer science, and spatial reasoning, a gatekeeper to STEM. Today, we’ll talk about computational thinking, an important aspect of computer science. In today’s increasingly ...

by Jennifer Knudsen, March 4, 2019 Our project combines math and computational thinking with 3D modeling and printing for grades 5-7. We’re now designing a classroom unit where kids use modeling, printing, and more typical making materials to create useful, beautiful ...