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Dr. Paul Christian Dawkins

  • Chair - Professor - Mathematics
Portrait of Dr. Paul Christian Dawkins
  • Melhuish, Kathleen Mary (Principal), Lew, Kristen Marie (Co-Principal), Sigley, Robert (Other), Morey, Susan (Supporting), Dawkins, Paul Christian (Co-Principal), Bishop, Jessica Lynn (Supporting). Orchestrating Discussions Around Proof, National Science Foundation, Federal, $299847. (Submitted: May 1, 2018, Funded: November 1, 2018 - October 31, 2022). Grant.
  • Dawkins, Paul Christian (Principal), Melhuish, Kathleen Mary (Co-Principal), Lew, Kristen Marie (Co-Principal), Roh, Kyeong Hah (Co-Principal). Generating a research-informed Transition to Mathematical Proof curriculum focused on reading and appreciating mathematical proofs, National Science Foundation, Federal, $600000. (Funded: August 2022 - August 2025). Grant.
  • Dawkins, Paul Christian (Principal). Comprehending Conditional Claims’ Proofs Organically (C3PO), Federal, $404416. (Submitted: September 2019, Funded: October 2020 - August 2024). Grant.
  • Dawkins, Paul Christian. “Investigating Students’ Moment-by-Moment Reading of Mathematical Proofs”, NIU Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language & Literacy, $1700. (Funded: 2017 - 2018). Grant.
  • Czocher, J. A., Dawkins, P. C., & Weber, K. (2024). Using Values and Norms to Explain the Rationality of Rejecting Probabilistic Proofs. Logique et Analyse, 261, 19–40. Retrieved from https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=3293133&journal_code=LEA
  • Dawkins, P. C., Oehrtman, M., & Reed, Z. (2024). Advanced students’ actions for operationalizing multiply quantified relationships. International Journal for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s40753-024-00236-4
  • Dawkins, P. C., & Roh, K. H. (2024). Unitizing predicates and reasoning about the logic of proofs. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 55, 76–95. https://doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc-2020-0155
  • Dawkins, P. C., Hackenberg, A. J., & Norton, A. (Eds.). (2024). Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology for Mathematics Education Research. Switzerland: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47386-9
  • Dawkins, P. C., Roh, K. H., Eckman, D., & Cho, Y. K. (2023). Theo’s reinvention of the logic of conditional statements’ proofs rooted in set-based reasoning. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 70, 101043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2023.101043
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Research Award (Associate/Full), Department of Mathematics. December 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Selden Prize, Mathematics Association of America. 2019 - 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Research Award (Associate/Full), Department of Mathematics. December 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Reviewer, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Meritorious Citation Paper Award, RUME Conference. 2017
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  1. Editorial Review Board Member

    Journal of Mathematical Behavior

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    ZDM Mathematics Education

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    Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

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    International Journal for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education

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    Educational Studies in Mathematics

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    For the Learning of Mathematics

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