I design and test new ways of learning mathematics through movement, exploring how our sensory experiences shape understanding. I collaborate with public, charter, and alternative schools, educational technologists, museums, interdisciplinary researchers, and neurodiverse learners to develop tools and theory that can make math learning more engaging and accessible.
I earned my PhD in Special Education at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University, and am now a postdoctoral researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Learn More about some ongoing projects:
Balance Board Math
Discovery-based explorations of math concepts through the bodily sense of balance.
Tele Tangibles
Digital twin haptics and computer simulations for inclusive, collaborative STEM explorations.
Multimodal Learning Analytics
Applying multimodal data and nonlinear methods to understand how cognition emeerges through body-environment coordination.
Sofia Tancredi 