About Us
Our Mission
Multiplicity lab was founded at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy to support the teaching of mathematics as an ambitious, expansive, and just pursuit. We connect research in the learning sciences and mathematics education to the daily practices of teaching by providing resources, routines, and tasks worthy of students’ and teachers’ time.
Jen Munson
Jen Munson is an assistant professor of learning sciences at Northwestern University in the School of Education and Social Policy. She is a former mathematics coach and elementary and middle school teacher, having worked in school across the US. She is the co-author, with Jo Boaler and Cathy Williams, of the Mindset Mathematics curriculum series for kindergarten through eighth grade published by Wiley, and the author of In the Moment: Conferring in the Elementary Math Classroom, a professional text for teachers published by Heinemann. Her research focuses on designing for teacher learning and understanding how interactions can support both student and teacher learning in the mathematics classroom.
Meet the multiplicity lab group
Sarah Larison
Sarah Larison is a clinical assistant professor in mathematics education at Purdue University. She did her doctoral work in the learning sciences at Northwestern University. A former elementary school teacher, Sarah is passionate about supporting preservice and in-service teachers in developing pedagogies to elicit, notice, and use student mathematical thinking as the basis for classroom learning.
Daniel Ro
Daniel Ro is a freshman studying Economics at Northwestern University. He loves analytics and finding context behind numbers on a spreadsheet. In his free time, he enjoys watching football and being a member of his Church community.