Faculty Profile for Brandi Renea Rygaard Gaspard

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Brandi Renea Rygaard Gaspard
Doctoral Research Assistant — Mathematics
DERR 207
phone: (512) 245-4749

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Rygaard Gaspard, B. R., Lee, H. Y., Bui, M. T. T., Hardison, H. L., Paoletti, T., Tarigan, S. I., … Zolt, H. M. (2024). Middle School Students’ Reasoning Through Graphing Conventions. In Proceedings of the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference (PME 47) (Vol. 1, p. 265). Retrieved from https://www.igpme.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Vol-1-PME47-01-07-2024.pdf
  • Zolt, H. M., Rygaard Gaspard, B. R., Lee, H. Y., Paoletti, T., Hardison, H. L., Ford, L. L., … Bui, M. T. T. (n.d.). Modeling students’ strategies when creating a graph: A focus on reference frames and coordinate systems. In Proceedings of the 46th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
  • Lee, H. Y., Paoletti, T., Zolt, H. M., Bui, M. T. T., Hardison, H. L., Gantt, A., & Rygaard Gaspard, B. R. (2023). A framework for designing graphing tasks from the ground up. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 1, pp. 88–89). Reno, Nevada.
  • Patterson, C. L., Bui, M. T. T., Guajardo, L. R., Acevedo, C. I., Rygaard Gaspard, B. R., & McGraw, R. (2023). Worthwhile problems: How teachers evaluate the instructional suitability of contextual algebra tasks.

Selected Grants

  • 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.