AAARCC Lunch & Learn Series: Emergence of Spatio-Visual Reasoning in Informal STEM

The AAARCC (Asian American and Asian Resource and Cultural Center) hosts a weekly Lunch and Learn series with a guest speaker every Thursday at 915 5th St. from noon to 1:00pm.

No registration required to attend. In-person seating is limited to the first 60 attendees who plan on attending the presentation for the whole duration. If you are unable to attend in-person for the whole duration, you can watch the Zoom livestream using the link bit.ly/LunchLearnFall24

Speaker: Maria Eloisa (Lisa) Nuguid

This study focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) activities led by mathematics education faculty and graduate students twice a week at Freedom School. Freedom School is a national six-week summer literacy program rooted in the Civil Rights movement and addresses social justice issues through a culturally relevant curriculum. Our research goal for the STEM activities was to understand how children use spatio-visual thinking in mapping tasks developed in coordination with the Freedom School’s literacy curriculum (e.g., community) and social justice focus. We present the cases of two students to illustrate how their contexts shaped their interpretations of space within a series of map drawing tasks.

This Lunch and Learn is co-sponsored by the AAARCC and College of Education: Diversity and Global Engagement.