2022-2023 Winner

The Mathematical Discourse Teaching Simulator

United States of America
Track:
Teacher Development
Award Level:
Catalyst Award

Project Description

The Mathematical Discourse Teaching Simulator (MDTSim) is a web-based multi-modal chat tool designed to provide mathematics teachers with opportunities to develop high-leverage teaching practices. Users of the tool adopt the role of a teacher and interact with a virtual student by exchanging written text, visualizations, graphs, or other virtual manipulatives. At the end of the conversation, the tool provides automated formative feedback. The tool supports a wide range of use cases, with customizable scenarios and virtual students played by human actors or AI-chatbots.

Meet Our Team

Jim Bywater

Assistant Professor, James Madison University

Jennie Chiu

Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Don Brown

Professor, University of Virginia

Phase III results for the Building an Adaptive & Competitive Workforce track will be released in late May. Meet the finalists for all other tracks here.