🚨 Now Recruiting: Ph.D. Students in Mathematics Education at UF! 🚨

📅 Apply by Dec 1, 2025 for fellowship/assistantship consideration.

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Professional update: Thrilled to announce that I will continue on the tenure track at the University of Florida where I have accepted an Assistant Professor of Math Education position in the College of Education’s School of Teaching and Learning.🐊💙🧡
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Privileged to present pieces of my project at the inaugural Data Science Education K-12 Conference held in San Antonio, TX! #DSEK12 #DataIsHuman

Currently in my home island of Guåhan collaborating in community with local CHamoru teachers and scholars to develop culturally relevant data science learning modules. Looking forward to classroom observations in the spring when teachers pilot the lessons!

A break from academic things and a quick personal life update: I married my best friend and the love of my life! Grateful for the opportunity to exchange our vows in front of our loved ones who came from near and far, including those who were able to Zoom in online! #lovewins #husbands #gaywedding

Thankful for many things, especially for local businesses that prepare individual Thanksgiving meals to go!

Can data science/literacy be taught in elementary? Absolutely! These last several weeks of the semester, my elem math preservice Ts are learning the fundamentals of data collection, organization, and visualization. They’re excited to try some of these activities in their internship class next sem!

Quick introduction: Håfa Adai! I’m Richard, son of immigrant parents from the Philippines, born and raised in Guam. I’m an asst prof of math ed at the University of Oklahoma, currently working on developing culturally relevant data science curriculum with Indigenous math teachers from Micronesia.