Associate Professor Michelle Chamberlin

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Contact Information

mchambe5@uwyo.edu

Ross Hall 221

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Education

Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction with an Emphasis in Mathematics Education, Purdue University, 2002
M.S. Mathematics, Colorado State University, 1999
B.S. Mathematics, Colorado State University, 1997

About Dr. Chamberlin

Michelle T. Chamberlin is an Associate Professor of mathematics education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.  Her teaching responsibilities include mathematics classes for education majors and practicing teachers as well as graduate level mathematics education courses. Her various service activities include coordinating the mathematics classes for elementary education majors, leading the departmental assessment committee, serving as an invited reviewer for various mathematics education journals, and mentoring graduate students on mathematics education theses and dissertations.

She conducts research in mathematics teacher education.  Specifically, she examines ways to enhance the effectiveness of mathematics and educational learning experiences for prospective and practicing teachers. Some of her recent professional publications follow.

Representative publications

  1.  Chamberlin, M. T. (accepted). Formative assessment in a geometry for teachers’ course: Supporting student learning objectives for prospective teachers.  In N. Miller, L. Pyzdrowski, A. Brown, P. Herbst, & B. Reynolds, The GeT Course: Resources and Objectives for the Geometry Courses for Teachers.
  2. Flavin, E., Lee, J. H, Chamberlin, M. T., & Powers, R. A. (2024). GPS: Artificial intelligence image processing. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Pk-12, 117(11), 848-852. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2024.0103
  3. Powers, R. A., & Chamberlin, M. T. (2024). GPS: Counting Goldfish Crackers: Three-act math tasks. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Pk-12, 117(10), 758-764. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2024.0164
  4. Chamberlin, M. T., & Powers, R. A. (2024). GPS: Fractions as measures. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Pk-12, 117(7), 524-527. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2024.0073
  5. King, Audrey, & Chamberlin, M. T. (2023). Continuing Terry Wood’s legacy of theory informing practice: Inspiring new teachers. Theory into Practice, 62(1), 39-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2022.2135931
  6. Chamberlin, M. T. (2022). Lesson experiment cycles: Examining factors that affect prospective teachers’ learning of area measurement. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 17(1), Article em0665.  https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/11469  
  7. Chamberlin, M. T. (2019). Enhancing prospective teachers’ views of doing mathematics: Documenting and reflecting on mathematical investigations. Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 11(2), 103-119.  https://doi.org/10.1080/19477503.2017.1400937