Curriculum Vitae
Biography
I am a Chilean assistant professor at the University of North Dakota. I document ways people know mathematics and teach mathematics content and pedagogy in academic and non-academic contexts. I am interested in mathematics teacher educators' experiences preparing teachers and collaborating with researchers from other disciplines. I love working on research projects that address research questions such as: How do teachers build from their experiences to teach mathematics? How do mathematics teacher educators build from their experiences to prepare mathematics teachers? In what ways do people bring mathematics to activities? In what ways do mathematics education researchers engage in interdisciplinary collaborations?Suazo-Flores, E., & Alyami, H. (2023 in-press). Transcending school mathematics and science while making art. In Harper, S. & Cox D. (Eds.). Math in action: Grades 9-12. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Suazo-Flores, E., & Roetker, L. (2023 in-press). Building painted cubes. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12.
Meir, E., Gardner, S.M., Maruca, S., Suazo-Flores, E., Abraham, J.K. (2023). Building a performance-based assessment of graph construction using evidence-centered design. In Spector, M.J., Lockee, B.B., Childress, M.D. (Eds.), Learning, design, and technology. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17727-4_187-1
Suazo-Flores, E., & Roetker, L. (2021). Pack a truck: Decontextualizing and contextualizing a task. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 6(114), 468-472. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2020.0289
Suazo-Flores, E., Alyami, H., Walker, W. S., III, Aqazade, M., & Kastberg, S. E. (2021). A call for exploring mathematics education researchers’ interdisciplinary research practices. Mathematics Education Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13394-021-00371-0
Gardner, S., Suazo-Flores, E., Abraham, J. K., Karippadath, A., Meir, E., & Maruca, S., (2021). Biology undergraduate students’ graphing practice in digital versus pen-and-paper graphing environments. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 30, 431-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-020-09886-w
Siverling, E., Moore, T., Suazo-Flores, E., Mathis, C., & Guzey, S. (2021). What initiates evidence-based reasoning?: Situations that prompt students to support their design ideas and decisions. Journal of Engineering Education, 10(2), 294-317. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20384
Chapman, O., Kastberg, S. E., Suazo-Flores, E., Cox, D., & Ward, J. (2020). Mathematics teacher educators’ inquiry into their practice. In Beswick, K. & Chapman, O. (Eds.), International handbook of mathematics teacher education, 2nd Edition. Volume 2: The mathematics teacher educator as a developing professional (pp. 157-187). Brill-Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004424210_008
Siverling, E. A., Suazo-Flores, E., Mathis, C. A., Moore, T. J. (2019). Students’ use of STEM content in design justifications during engineering design-based STEM integration. School Science and Mathematics Journal, 119(8), 457-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssm.12373
Kastberg, S. E., Suazo-Flores, E., & Richardson, S. E. (2019). Mathematics educator teacher stories. Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa (Auto) Biographical, 4(10), 48-67. https://doi.org/10.31892/rbpab2525-426X.2019.v4.n10.p48-67
Kersey, E., Max, B., Akarsu, M., Bloome, L., Suazo, E., & Hoffman, A. J. (2019). Use of written curriculum in applied calculus. International Journal of Research in Education and Science (IJRES), 5(2), 457-467.
Suazo-Flores, E. (2018). Students’ understanding of area: Combining practical and mathematical knowledge with a real world task. International Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 8(1), 23-37.
Conference Proceedings
Suazo-Flores, E., Walker, W. S., III, Alyami, H., Kastberg, S. E., & Aqazade, M. (2022). Mathematics education researchers' practices in interdisciplinary collaborations: Embracing ways of knowing. In Lischka, A., Strayer, J., Lovett, J., Jones, R., & Dyer, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the forty-four annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (968-975). Middle Tennessee State University. http://www.pmena.org/pmenaproceedings/PMENA%2044%202022%20Proceedings.pdf
Suazo-Flores, E., Kastberg, S., Grant, M., & Chapman, O. (2022). Philosophical underpinnings of mathematics teacher educators' work. In Lischka, A., Strayer, J., Lovett, J., Jones, R., & Dyer, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the forty-four annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (2184-2185). Middle Tennessee State University. http://www.pmena.org/pmenaproceedings/PMENA%2044%202022%20Proceedings.pdf
Suazo-Flores, E., Walker, W. S., III, Alyami, H., Aqazade, M., & Kastberg, S. E. (2021). Conceptualizing practices in interdisciplinary groups from a mathematics education researcher's perspective. In D. Olanoff, K., Johnson, & S.M., Spitzer (Eds.), Proceedings of the forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 824-828). Philadelphia, PA. http://www.pmena.org/pmenaproceedings/PMENA%2043%202021%20Proceedings.pdf
Suazo-Flores, E., Kastberg, S., Grant, M., Ward. J., Richardson, S. E., & Chapman, O. (2021). Using self-based methodologies to unpack mathematics teacher educators' work. In D. Olanoff, K., Johnson, & S.M., Spitzer (Eds.), Proceedings of the forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 1907-1910). Philadelphia, PA. http://www.pmena.org/pmenaproceedings/PMENA%2043%202021%20Proceedings.pdf
Zhou, L., Suazo-Flores, E., Sapkota, B., Mbewe, R., & Newton, J. (2021) Image of mathematics in- and out-of-school: A case study of two original participants in an afterschool STEM club-girls excelling in math and science (GEMS). In D. Olanoff, K., Johnson, & S.M., Spitzer (Eds.), Proceedings of the forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 1210-1219). Philadelphia, PA. http://www.pmena.org/pmenaproceedings/PMENA%2043%202021%20Proceedings.pdf
Richardson, S. E., Suazo-Flores, E., & Rice, M. (2021). Developing STEM identity: Beyond STEM content knowledge in an informal STEM club. In D. Kollosche (Ed.), Exploring new ways to connect: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Mathematics Education and Society Conference (Vol. 3, pp. 839–848). Tredition. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5457236
Suazo-Flores, E., & Walker, W., Alyami, H., Aqazade, M., & Kastberg, S. (2021). Understanding practices in an interdisciplinary group from a case study. In D. Kollosche (Ed.), Exploring new ways to connect: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Mathematics Education and Society Conference (Vol. 3, pp. 986-994). Tredition. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5457236
Suazo-Flores, E., Richardson, S. E., & Zhou, L. (2021). GEMS research projects. In W. S. Walker, III, L. A. Bryan, S. S. Guzey, & E. Suazo-Flores (Eds.), Proceedings of the sixth annual Indiana STEM Education Conference. West Lafayette, IN. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/instemed/2021/posters/
Suazo-Flores, E. (2020). A Mathematics teacher’s curricular decisions. In Sacristan, A.I., Cortes-Zavala, J.C. & Ruiz-Arias, P.M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 181-184). Cinvestav / AMIUTEM / PME-NA. https://doi.org/10.51272/pmena.42.2020
Suazo-Flores, E., Ward. J., Richardson, S. E., Grant, M., Cox, D., Kastberg, S., & Chapman, O. (2020). Mathematics teacher educators using self-based methodologies. In Sacristan, A.I., Cortes-Zavala, J.C. & Ruiz-Arias, P.M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 19181). Cinvestav / AMIUTEM / PME-NA. https://doi.org/10.51272/pmena.42.2020
Suazo-Flores, E., Walker, W. S., III, Aqazade, M., Alyami, H., & Kastberg, S. E. (2019). Mathematics education researchers’ interdisciplinary collaboration practices. In Otten, S., de Araujo, Z., Candela, A., Munter, C., & Haines, C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. University of Missouri. http://www.pmena.org/pmenaproceedings/PMENA%2041%202019%20Proceedings.pdf
Suazo-Flores, E., Kastberg, S. E., Cox, D., E., Ward, J., Chapman, O., & Grant, M. (2019). Mathematics teacher educators’ exploring self-based methodologies. In Otten, S., de Araujo, Z., Candela, A., Munter, C., & Haines, C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 2012-2019). University of Missouri. http://www.pmena.org/pmenaproceedings/PMENA%2041%202019%20Proceedings.pdf
Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum and Instruction—Mathematics Education
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
December 2017
Master’s Degree in Mathematics
University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile
October 2007
Bachelor’s Degree in Education
University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile
January 2004
Secondary Mathematics Teacher
University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile
January 2004