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Dr. Hwa Young Lee

  • Associate Professor - Mathematics

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Mathematics Education

University of Georgia, 2017

Master's Degree

MA in Mathematics

University of Georgia, 2017

Master's Degree

MED in Mathematics Education

Ewha Womans University, 2009

Bachelor's Degree

BS in Mathematics Education

Ewha Womans University, 2004

Research Interests

  • Lee, Hwa Young. CAREER: Reframing students' graph literacy with a focus on students' thinking (GLi-ST), NSF, Federal, $972301. (Submitted: July 2022, Funded: February 15, 2023 - January 31, 2028). Grant.
  • Lee, Hwa Young (Principal), Hardison, Hamilton Lee (Co-Principal), Zolt, Holly Marie (Other), Bui, Mai Thanh Thi (Other), Rygaard Gaspard, Brandi Renea (Other), Ford, Lucinda Louise (Other). Collaborative Research: Middle School Students' Graphing From the Ground Up (MS-GGU), NSF, Federal, $293841. (Submitted: October 2021, Funded: June 2022 - May 2025). Grant.
  • Lee, Hwa Young (Principal), Hardison, Hamilton Lee (Supporting). Undergraduate elementary prospective teachers' conceptions of angle measure: A study of an intervention, REP, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2019, Funded: January 2020 - May 31, 2021). Grant.
  • Lee, Hwa Young. Constructing spatial coordinate systems: A study of undergraduate elementary pre-service teachers, Texas State University, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 25, 2017, Funded: January 2018 - May 31, 2019). Grant.
  • Paoletti, T., Lee, H. Y., Hardison, H. L., Zolt, H. M., Olshefke-Clark, A., Bui, M. T. T., & Margolis, C. (2025). “We’ve been… trying to learn communication and kind of like coordinates”: One student’s developing meanings for coordinate systems and reference frames. Mathematical Thinking and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986065.2025.2595714
  • Lee, H. Y. (2024). Researching coordinate systems using genetic epistemology constructs. In Piaget’s genetic epistemology in and for ongoing mathematics education research.
  • Paoletti, T., Lee, H. Y., Rahman, Z., Vishnubhotla, M., & Basu, D. (2020). Comparing graphical representations in mathematics, science, and engineering textbooks and practitioner journals. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2020.1847336
  • Lee, H. Y. (2020). Tell me where they are. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Pre-K-12, 113(11), e78–e84. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2019.0125
  • Lee, H. Y., Hardison, H. L., & Paoletti, T. (2020). Foregrounding the Background: Two Uses of Coordinate Systems. For the Learning of Mathematics, 40(2), 32–37.
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  • Award / Honor Nominee: 2023 Departmental Excellence in Research Award (at Associate professor/professor level). 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellence in Research Award (assistant professor, senior lecturer, & lecturer level), Department of Mathematics. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, The Texas State Alumni Association. May 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellence in Teaching Award (Assistant Professor Level), Department of Mathematics. December 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Office of Instruction, University of Georgia. 2017
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    Awards Committee

  2. Member

    Colloquium

  3. Reviewer / Referee

    Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

  4. Reviewer / Referee

    Cognition and Instruction

  5. Member

    Library Committee

  6. Reviewer / Referee

    NCTM Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Pre-K-12

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