Joe Champion
Office: EDUC 443
(208) 426-3497
joechampion@boisestate.edu
About
Dr. Champion joined the mathematics department in 2013. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics from the University of North Dakota, and a Ph.D in Educational Mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado. Previously, he served for 3 years on the mathematics faculty of Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi.
Dr. Champion is a mathematics education specialist. He collaborates with scientists and educators to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics at all levels. His research often draws on large-scale data analysis, addressing academic performance and persistence in mathematics and science, as well as the learning of mathematical and statistical modeling. Joe also builds educational websites and software.
Selected products
- Researching Order of Teaching [ROOT] (2019). NSF-sponsored teacher-researcher alliance, with Michele Carney, Keith Thiede, Ya Mo, and Sam Coskey.
- Using Literature to Engage Students Mathematically, Ohio Journal of School Mathematics (2019), with Ann Wheeler and Holly Dybvig.
- Improving the Accuracy of Teachers’ Judgments of Student Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education (2018), with Keith Thiede, Jonathan Brendefur, Michele Carney, Lindsey Turner, Roger Stewart, and Richard Osguthorpe.
- Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Planned Approaches For Teaching Standard Deviation (2018), Statistics Education Research Journal, with Maryann Huey, Stephanie Casey, and Nicholas Wasserman.
- Statistics as Unbiased Estimators: Exploring the Teaching of Standard Deviation (2017). Research in Mathematics Education, with Nicholas Wasserman, Stephanie Casey, and Maryann Huey.
Selected courses taught
- MATH 211, Geometric Reasoning in the Classroom
- MATH 261, Statistics for the Classroom
- MATHED 547, History of Mathematics
- MATHED 525, Teaching & Learning Calculus
- MATHED 526, Teaching & Learning Statistics