Merav Weingarden is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics Education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Hampshire, United States.
She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Her research interests include improving the communication about teaching mathematics among researchers, teacher educators and teachers.
More specifically, she focuses on developing pedagogical mediators for improving pre-service teacher learning to teach mathematics.
She is currently working on a long-term project that investigates beginning teachers' expertise to teach mathematics via reasoning and proof.
Her work focuses on the socio-cultural aspects of this process and on developing a conceptual framework to theorize, based on the commognitive theory, learning opportunities for reasoning and proving.
In her P.hD. research, Merav developed a novel tool – The Realization Tree Assessment (RTA) tool for improving the communication about Teaching Mathematics for Explorative Participation.
Merav graduated M.Sc. in Mathematics Education (Summa cum laude) in 2017 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
She served as a professional development instructor for secondary mathematics teachers and was a high school mathematics teacher.
