About

Paola Sztajn is the Dean of the College of Education at NC State University. She is part of the leadership team and holds the W. Dallas Herring Professor of Community College Education title. Her contact information includes a phone number and email address. The page indicates her leadership role within the college but does not provide specific details about her research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Mathematics education
• Business
• Economics
• Market economy
• Mathematics
• Psychology
• Pedagogy
• Philosophy
• Public relations
• Epistemology
• Public economics
• Finance

Selected publications

• Resolução de problemas, formação de conceitos matemáticos e outras janelas que se abrem

  LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2023-05-29

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  In this article, I discuss problem solving in Mathematics education and the consequences of its use for mathematics teaching and learning. The manuscript begins with a brief historical review of problems in the teaching of mathematics. Drawing upon a few authors and their research, I define problems as occurrences that one wants to solve but for which solution one does not have an immediate algorithm. I claim that such problems are necessary for one to form, enrich and reorganize his/her mathematical concepts. Furthermore, during the problem solving process students make mistakes, experience emotions, and have to assess their own cognition. Therefore, I focus on error analysis, afecctive issues and metacognition in Mathematics education as a consequence of teaching via problem solving.

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• Innovation, entrepreneurship, promotion, and tenure

  Science · 2021 · 34 citations

  • Political Science
  • Business
  • Public economics

  Academic incentives must reward broader societal impacts.

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• High-Quality Discourse in Math Classrooms

  Corwin eBooks · 2021

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  • Sociology
  • Mathematics education
  • Mathematics
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• Activating Math Talk: 11 Purposeful Techniques for Your Elementary Students

  Corwin eBooks · 2021-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Decomposing practice in teacher professional development: Examining sequences of learning activities

  Teaching and Teacher Education · 2020 · 12 citations

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  • Mathematics education
  • Psychology
  • Pedagogy
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• Controlled Implementations

  2019-12-04 · 1 citations

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• Learning Trajectories for Teachers: Designing Effective Professional Development for Math Instruction.

  Teachers College Press eBooks · 2019-06-07 · 13 citations

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• Securing Funding: Getting Started

  Research in mathematics education · 2019-01-01

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• Investigating sociopedagogical norms: Teachers' discussions about own and others' instruction

  Teaching and Teacher Education · 2018-02-20 · 8 citations

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• Highlighting Theory to Connect Research and Practice

  Journal for Research in Mathematics Education · 2018-11-01 · 1 citations

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  What role should educational research play in practice and vice versa? What is the role of theory in connecting research and practice? These are some of the questions that readers are invited to consider in Research for Educational Change: Transforming Researchers' Insights Into Improvement in Mathematics Teaching and Learning . Using a novel approach, this book brings these questions to the foreground and examines the links among research, practice, and theory in mathematics education.

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Recent grants

• Project AIM: All Included in Mathematics

  NSF · $2.9M · 2010–2017

• Collaborative Research: An impact study to examine the efficacy of a mathematics professional development program for elementary teachers

  NSF · $1.4M · 2015–2021

• RAPID-System-level Professional Development: Articulating Research Ideas that Support Implementation of PD Needed for Making the CCSS in Mathematics Reality for K-12 Teachers

  NSF · $200k · 2011–2014

• Contextual Research-Empirical--Building a Conceptual Model of Learning-Trajectory Based Instruction

  NSF · $1.6M · 2010–2017

Frequent coauthors

• P. Holt Wilson

  University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  14 shared

• Cyndi Edgington

  North Carolina State University

  11 shared

• Marrielle Myers

  Kennesaw State University

  6 shared

• Lara K. Dick

  5 shared

• Kristen A. Malzahn

  Horizon Research (United States)

  5 shared

• Daniel W. Heck

  4 shared

• Cynthia Edgington

  North Carolina State University

  3 shared

• Jared Webb

  North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

  3 shared

Education

• PhD Mathematics Education, College of Education

  Indiana University Bloomington

  1995

• M.S. , Physics

  Universidade Estadual de Campinas

  1989

• B.S., Physics

  Universidade Federal Fluminense Instituto de Física

  1985