Laurie Rubel

Education:

Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University - 2002 (Mathematics Education)

M.Phil., Teachers College, Columbia University - 2000 (Mathematics Education)

M.A., Tel Aviv University - 1996 (Mathematics Education)

B.Sc., Haverford College - 1992 (Mathematics)

Books and Publications

"Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth: Learning Together About Our Students and Their Communities." Professional Collaborations in Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Seeking Success for All (NCTM 2012 Yearbook). Eds. J. Bay-Williams and R. Speer. Reston, Va: NCTM. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2012

Rubel, Laurie H. and H. Chu. "Reinscribing Urban: High School Mathematics Teaching in Low-income Communities of Color." Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education 12.1: 39-52. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012

Rubel, Laurie, Michael Driskill and Lawrence Lesser. "Decennial Redistricting: Mathematics in Context." Mathematics Teacher. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012

Rubel, Laurie H., H. Chu and L. Shookhoff. "Learning to Map and Mapping to Learn." Mathematics Teacher 104.8: 587-91. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011

"Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth: Equity Pedagogy in Action." Mathematics Teaching and Learning in K-12: Equity and Professional Development. Ed. M. Foote. New York: Palgrave. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2010

"Is 7/10 Always Equivalent to 700/1000?" Mathematics Teacher September. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

Chu, H. and L. Rubel. "Learning to Teach Mathematics in Urban High Schools: Untangling the Threads of Interwoven Narratives." Journal of Urban Mathematics Education 3.2: 57-76. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

"Middle and High School Student Thinking About Effects of Sample Size: An In and Out of School Perspective." Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Eds. S.L. Swars, D.W. Stinson and S. Lemons-Smith. Atlanta: Georgia State University. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

Calabrese Barton, Angela, Laurie Rubel, Melina Furman and Maria-Alicia Lopez-Freeman. "Preparing Science Teachers for Diverse Audiences: Race, Class and Social Justice." The Continuum of Secondary Science Teacher Preparation: Knowledge, Questions and Research Recommendations. Eds. A. Collins and N. Gillespie. Rotterdam, the Netherlands / Taipei, Taiwan / Boston: Sense. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009

"Teaching With Games of Chance: A Review of The Mathematics of Games and Gambling." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2008

Enyedy Noel, Laurie Rubel, Viviana Castellon, Shiuli Mukhopadhyay, Indigo Esmonde and Walter Secada. "Revoicing in a Multilingual Classroom." Mathematical Thinking and Learning. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

"Middle and High School Students' Probabilistic Thinking Across Coin Tasks." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 38.5: 531-56. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

"The Availability Heuristic: A Redux." Journal of Statistics Education 15.2. http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v15n2/rubel.html. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

Rubel, Laurie H. and Betina Zolkower. "Arranging Blocks, Climbing Stairs and Beyond: Learning About Mathematical Representations." Mathematics Teacher 101.5: 340-44. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

"M&M's, Rhinos, Cockroaches and Cooperative Learning." Mathematics Teacher 100.2: 152-56. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

"Students' Probabilistic Thinking Revealed: The Case of Coin Tosses." Thinking About Reasoning and Chance. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2006 Yearbook. Ed. Burrill. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006

"Good Things Come in Threes: Three Cards, Three Prisoners and Three Doors." Mathematics Teacher 9.6. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"The Mathematics of Lotteries." Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers. Eds. Eric Gutstein and Bob Peterson. Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005

Rubel, Laurie and M.E. Meyer. "Deciding for Equity: The Pursuit of Mathematics for All." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 10.9: 479-83. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

NSF-funding for "CAREER: Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth" project. Principal investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012

Principal investigator of "Learning Mathematics Of the City In the City (LMCITY^2)," a collaboration with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and M.I.T., funded by NSF's DRK-12. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012

Principal investigator, NSF-funded Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010

Principal investigator, NSF-funded Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation. (Awards and Honors) 2008

National Science Foundation CAREER grant, for "Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth." 2008-13. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008

National Science Foundation, for "Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth." $625,137. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008

Brooklyn College Excellence in Teaching Award. (Awards and Honors) 2007

Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Young Scholar Award, 2006-08. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

PSC-CUNY Research Award. $6,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

Chu, A. and L. Rubel. Presentation at Mathematics Education & Society 7 Conference. Scheduled for April in Cape Town, South Africa. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

Chu, H. and L. Rubel. Conference presentation at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Pre-session. Scheduled for April in Denver. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

Rubel, L. and A.J. Stachelek. "Culturally Relevant Mathematics Pedagogy and Standards-based Instruction: Research of Practice." Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013

Rubel, L. and A.J. Stachelek. Presentation as part of research symposium at Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association. Scheduled for April in San Francisco. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

I presented my work at a research symposium about equity and participation in mathematics at the 2012 NCTM Research Presession in Philadelphia. My collaborators were Victoria Hand of the University of Colorado, Indigo Esmonde and Lesley Dookie of OISE, and Scott Monroe of UCLA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

Rubel, Laurie, Scott Monroe, Indigo Esmonde, Lesley Dookie and Victoria Hand. "Equity and Participation in School Mathematics." Research symposium at Research Presession of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

I presented my work at the 2011 NCTM Research Presession in Indianapolis, in a symposium about critical and culturally relevant mathematics curriculum and teaching, with Janine Remillard and Rico Gutstein. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

Rubel, Laurie and Haiwen Chu. "Putting the City Back in Urban: High School Mathematics Teaching in Low-income Communities of Color." Annual Meeting of Psychology of Mathematics Education - North America. Columbus, Ohio. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

Rubel, Laurie, Haiwen Chu and Lauren Shookhoff. "Learning and Mapping for Social Justice in Mathematics Classrooms" workshop. Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference. Long Island University. Brooklyn, N.Y., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

"Becoming a K-12 Teacher of Mathematics." Bryn Mawr College. Bryn Mawr, Pa. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

"Becoming a K-12 Teacher of Mathematics." Haverford College. Haverford, Pa. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

Psychology of Mathematics Education - North America Annual Meeting. Atlanta, September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

Rubel, Laurie, Hanna Haydar, Michael Meagher and Betina Zolkower. Research talk. NCTM Research Pre-session. Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Mathematics Education: Battlefields and Beyond." Mathematics Colloquium. Haverford College. Haverford, Pa., Feb. 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

"Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth." Urban Ethnography Forum. Philadelphia, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth: Teacher Learning." Center for Mathematics Education's Colloquium Series. University of Maryland. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

Edwards, Ann, Rogers Hall and Laurie Rubel. "Developing Technical Practices for Video Case Analysis and Their Implications for Research on Diversity in Mathematics Education." Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

Rubel, Laurie and Brooklyn Teacher Research Group. "Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth." Symposium at Creating Balance in an Unjust World. Long Island University. Brooklyn, N.Y., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Connecting Families and Communities to Improve Mathematics Learning." National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Pre-session. St Louis. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"Making Mathematics Relevant in an Urban Setting" poster. Annual Meeting of the Psychology of Mathematics Education--North American. Mexico, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

Hall, Rogers and Laurie Rubel. "Analysis of Work With a Corpus of Video Recordings from a 'Last Chance' Algebra Classroom." Diversity in Mathematics Education Annual Meeting. Univeristy of California-Berkeley. July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

Professional Leadership

Director, Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth Summer Institute. Thirteen teachers from 12 New York City schools participated in this program. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2012

Member, advisory committee, National Science Foundation DRK12 2012 PI meeting. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012

Member, CUNY Pathways Committee in the Area of Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012

Member, editorial panel, Mathematics Teacher, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics journal for high school mathematics teachers. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2012

Member, CUNY-wide committee to review PSC-CUNY proposals for grants in educational research. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011

Director, Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth Summer Institute, Aug. 24-28, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2009

Member, invited review board, AERA's Division K Teaching & Teacher Education Section 1 Science, Teaching, Engineering & Mathematics. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009

Member, invited review board, American Educational Research Association's Division K Teaching & Teacher Education. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2009

Member, review panel, National Science Foundation, and conducted an ad-hoc review for them. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009

Member, review panel, National Science Foundation, February. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2009

Member, review panel, National Science Foundation, October. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2009

Co-chair, American Education Research Association's Division C Teaching & Learning Section 3 Mathematics, 2007-08. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007

Member, Brooklyn College Institutional Review Board. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007

Community Activities

Reviewer, C3IRG program. 2012

Reviewer, conference and session proposals for AERA (SIGRME and Urban Teaching & Learning) and NCTM. 2012

Other Professional Activities

Attendee, National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12 Principal Investigators Meeting, Washington, D.C., November. 2009

Member, review panel, National Science Foundation, March. 2008