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Dr. Hwa Young Lee

  • Associate Professor - Mathematics

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.
  • 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.
  • Hardison, H. L., & Lee, H. Y. (2020). Funky Protractors for Exploring Angle Measure. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 113(3), 229–232. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2019.0214
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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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    Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

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    Cognition and Instruction

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

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