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Joan Ferrini-Mundy is Associate Dean for Science and Mathematics Education and Outreach in the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University. Her faculty appointments are in mathematics and teacher education. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics education from the University of New Hampshire and was a faculty member in mathematics there from 1983-1995. Dr. Ferrini-Mundy taught mathematics at Mount Holyoke College in 1982-1983, where she co-founded the Summer Math for Teachers program. She served as a visiting scientist at the National Science Foundation, 1989-1991. She has chaired the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM) Research Advisory Committee and the American Education Research in Mathematics Education (AERA) Special Interest Group for Research in Mathematics Education, and was a member of the NCTM Board of directors. She came to MSU in 1999 from the National Research Council's Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education where she served as director of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board. Her research interests are in calculus learning and mathematics education reform, K-14. Currently she chairs the writing Group for Standards 2000, the revision of the NCTM Standards.
Mathematics reform
Student Learning in math
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