Biography

Dr. Irma Stevens is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematical Sciences at URI. She earned her B.S. in Mathematics at the UNC-Charlotte, and she earned her Masters in Mathematics and her PhD in Mathematics Education at the University of Georgia. She also completed a postdoc at the University of Michigan. She is a mathematics education researcher, and her primary research interests are on undergraduate instruction and students’ mathematical thinking, with an emphasis on quantitative and covariational reasoning with formulas at the precalculus and calculus level. She has published findings from her research in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Educational Studies in Mathematics, School Science and Mathematics, and Mathematics Teacher and in book chapters in Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology for Mathematics Education Research, Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics and Science Education, Online Learning in Mathematics Education and Teaching, Technology and Teacher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stories from the Field.