2021 Susan Gay Travel Scholarship Recipient
Hector I. Nieves
Boston University
Biography
Hector is in his second year at Boston University, in the Mathematics Education Ph.D. program. is a former middle and high school mathematics teacher. He is interested in ways of shifting power dynamics in mathematics classrooms with a focus on the ways in which teachers and students co-position themselves and each other through discourse. More specifically, how tracking policies influence/impact perceptions of who is seen as a learner and doer of mathematics.