Kimberly Cervello
Email: cervello@msu.edu

Website: http://www.msu.edu/~cervello

Kimberly Cervello (Kim) earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics with Secondary Education Certification and a minor in Sociology from the State University of New York at Geneseo, in May of 2005. She then pursued graduate work at Michigan State University (MSU) in the fall of 2005, and achieved her Masters in Mathematics two years later. Continuing her graduate studies at MSU, in the fall of 2007, Kim then transitioned into the Mathematics Education Ph.D. program in the Division of Science and Mathematics Education. In addition to her course work, Kim has had the opportunity to teach mathematics courses for prospective elementary teachers, an undergraduate trigonometry course, and a mathematics capstone course for prospective secondary mathematics teachers. Her research experiences in mathematics were primarily in number theory, graph theory, combinatorics, and algebra. So far, her three main research experiences in mathematics-education were about calculus students' transition from secondary education to tertiary education, high school mathematics teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching reasoning and proof, and mathematics  teaching assistants' mathematical knowledge for teaching the derivative. Kim's current research interests include knowledge and beliefs for teaching mathematics, teacher's decision-making, and professional development, especially at the collegiate level.