Invited Speakers

Dr. April Ström is a mathematics professor at Chandler–Gilbert Community College in Arizona, where she has taught for almost 30 years and currently directs the Arizona Mathematics Partnership (AMP) program. Ström’s research background in mathematics education includes investigating students’ and teachers’ ways of thinking about precalculus and calculus ideas, with intense focus on multiplicative reasoning, exponential functions, and function covariation. She is currently a member of the National Academies of Sciences Mathematical Sciences Education Board, and has served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction and the Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education. In support of the mathematics professional societies, Ström served as Vice President of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and Southwest Vice President for the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC). Ström has also served as PI and co-PI on various NSF-funded projects focused on both research in mathematics education and professional learning for K–14 instructors. She co-led the writing of the Classroom Practices chapter of the MAA Instructional Practices Guide and served on the steering committee for the AMATYC IMPACT Guide, both of which aimed to elevate active learning in mathematics in higher education. Ström received her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction (emphasis in Mathematics Education) from Arizona State University, and she holds M.A. and B.A. degrees in Mathematics from Texas Tech University.

Dr. Judith Canner received her Ph.D. in Biomathematics and Zoology from North Carolina State University. She joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Department at California State University, Monterey Bay in 2010 and has since established the Statistics Minor, Data Science Minor and the Statistics & Data Science Major. Dr. Canner is a board member of the California Alliance for Data Science Education, and past chair of the ASA–MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics and Data Science Education, the Special Interest Group of the MAA on Statistics and Data Science Education, and Posters and Beyond for the electronic and United States Conference on Teaching Statistics. Her goal is to support the development of statistics and data science training for all students so that they are prepared for the modern workforce. She currently serves as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at CSUMB.