Sheree Sharpe is an assistant professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Hampshire. She received a B.A. in Mathematics and Business Administration from Wesleyan College, and a Master’s in Mathematics from the University of Georgia. She then pursued a PhD in Teaching and Learning specializing in Mathematics Education at the University of Miami. Following her PhD, she spent a year teaching mathematics at Seminole Ridge High School (Palm Beach County, Florida). Next, she spent three years as a postdoctoral research associate in mathematics education under the mentorship of Analucia Schliemann and Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas at Tufts University. At UNH, Sheree teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and advises both undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Sheree research interest range from exploring middle school students’ arithmetic and algebraic representations when solving mathematics word problems to the relationship between teacher knowledge and mathematics achievement to her current project. Her current project focuses on understanding what factors (such as malleable characteristics of parents, students, teachers, and/or schools) relates to secondary school students’ mathematics achievement. She explores these relationships using large-scale nationally representative datasets of the United States population.
Exploring factors related to High Schoolers’ Algebra achievement:
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- A systematic review of studies using High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) data: This project explored what factors at the parent, student, teacher, and school levels are statistically significant related to 9thand 11thalgebra achievement.
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- Data analysis using HSLS:09 dataset: This project will create and test a model that resulted from the systematic review completed in part A using the HSLS:09 data.
- Using large-scale written assessment to assess students’ mathematical thinking and learning of algebra word problems
- Examining the impact of mathematical knowledge for teaching on students’ mathematical learning
- Statistics Education
