Izsak, Andrew

Associate Professor
Mathematics Education

Research Interests:

The psychology of mathematical thinking, teachers' and students' understanding and use of representations, the development of mathematical knowledge in and out of classrooms

Featured Publications:

Izsák, A. (2005). "You have to count the squares": Applying knowledge in pieces to learning rectangular area. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 14(3), 361-403.

Izsák, A. (2004). Students' coordination of knowledge when learning to model physical situations. Cognition and Instruction, 22(1), 81-128.

Izsák, A. (2004). Teaching and learning two-digit multiplication: Coordinating analyses of classroom practices and individual student learning. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 6(1), 37-79.

Izsák, A. (2003). "We want a statement that is always true": Criteria for good algebraic representations and the development of modeling knowledge. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 34(3), 191-227.

Izsák, A. (2000). Inscribing the winch: Mechanisms by which students develop knowledge structures for representing the physical world with algebra. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 9(1), 31-74.

Education:

Ph.D., Science and Mathematics Education, U.C. Berkeley, 1999

M.Ed., General Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1993

S.M., Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992

B.A., Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley, 1987