2017 Meeting Theme:
Dismantling Anxiety and Building from Strength

Math anxiety not only interferes with students' test-taking success; it can also keep students from engaging with quantitative content elsewhere in their coursework and career. SEQuEL 2017 invites proposals and sharing around how to understand and mitigate our students' (and our own!) anxieties around numbers, and locating and building instead on quantitative strengths in the classroom.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Gunderson

Elizabeth Gunderson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Temple University. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Chicago in 2012 and her B.A. in Computer Science & Psychology from Yale University in 2005. Dr. Gunderson’s research focuses on the cognitive and socio-emotional factors that affect young children’s academic achievement, especially in the domain of mathematics. She is currently investigating how teachers' and children’s anxieties influence students’ math performance; how visuo-spatial skills relate to children’s early number knowledge; and how children’s beliefs about the malleability of math and reading ability affect their achievement motivation. http://sites.temple.edu/cognitionlearning/