Kara Carpenter
About
Kara’s math curriculum design work draws upon her 10 plus years’ experience teaching students ranging in age from 3-years-old into adulthood. Kara first became interested in early childhood mathematics instruction as a second grade teacher in San Francisco, developing math curriculum with the Berkeley Mathematics Professional Development Institute before moving to New York and becoming a research fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University, co-managing a $1.4M grant developing early childhood math software. Her training in Cognitive Studies in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, focused on children's strategy development in mathematics. Kara has been the PI on two IES SBIR grants.
Associated IES Content
Basic Processes FY2024
Basic Processes Reviewers FY2024
About
2016 About Page - About IES, NCER, NCSER and Co-Chairs
FY2021
FY2021 Basic Processes Peer Review Panel
FY2022
Basic Processes FY2020 - FY2022 Peer review panel
Contract
Teachley Problem-Solving Assessment to Support Teachers to Assess and Promote Students' Mathematical Thinking
The project will develop a prototype of a formative assessment dashboard for teachers to view, monitor, and gain insight from students' digital work in mathematics to inform instruction.
Federal funding program:
Contract number:
91990020C0071
Contract
Teachley Connect: A Game-Based Formative Assessment Platform for K–5 Mathematics
This project team will fully develop and test Teachley Connect, a platform that syncs a variety of third-party math games to give elementary schools formative assessment data and intervention support. Mobile math games provide opportunities for students to access educationally-meaningful content in and out of the classroom and to supplement instruction. There are a number of examples of math apps that show promise for supporting and assessing student learning in different areas of mathematic...
Federal funding program:
Contract number:
EDIES16C0013
Contract
Teachley Analytics Library: A Collection of Educational Apps Personalizing Gameplay and Reporting Insights
This project team is developing and testing a prototype of the Teachley Analytics Library, a platform intended to host third party-developed mathematics game apps for students in kindergarten through Grade 8. The prototype will include a dashboard to host games and generate formative assessment data to inform teacher instruction.
Federal funding program:
Contract number:
EDIES15C0020
Contract
Teachley: Math Facts - Design And Development Of Intervention Software Promoting Single-Digit Operational Fluency
An estimated five to eight percent of elementary school students have some form of memory or cognitive deficit that inhibits learning basic math. Researchers have identified several areas where children with math learning difficulties struggle. These areas include a strong sense of number facts needed to quickly and accurately perform operations on single digit numbers, the use of strategies to solve problems which have not yet been memorized, an ability to figure out whether or not an answe...
Federal funding program:
Contract number:
EDIES13C0044
organization
Teachley, LLC
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