TEDxUNO Speaker Spotlight
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Angie Hodge
UNO Associate Professor and Ultra-Marathoner
- TEDxUNO Speaker, Session 2
- "Calculating Community: The Running Equation"
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Angie Hodge is an associate professor of mathematics at UNO. She is also the Haddix community chair, which means that she is also involved in helping to recruit and retain mathematics teachers.
Hodge earned both her master’s degree and Ph.D. from Purdue University in mathematics and mathematics education respectively. Her research interests are in mathematics education with specialty areas in inquiry-based learning and gender equity in the STEM disciplines. She has taught several mathematics and mathematics education courses using inquiry-based learning including calculus, trigonometry, axiomatic geometry, history of mathematics, and math methods for secondary teachers.
At the national level, she is a Special Projects Coordinator for the Academy of Inquiry-Based Learning, a Project NExT national fellow, and a member of the MAA’s COMET (committee on the mathematical education of teachers) committee. You can follow her teaching and research through the MAA sponsored blog, “Math Ed Matters,” which can be found at http://maamathedmatters.blogspot.com.