Percival Matthews
Position title: Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
- 2020-21 Update
- Matthews plans to use his Impact 2030 funds to explore the ways his team can leverage online data collection and web-facilitated social interaction to support engagement of math education practitioners through the state in reviewing, implementing, and creating research. Learn more
Matthews studies how people think about mathematics with two primary goals: 1) to understand how basic human abilities (like memory and perception) can support math; and 2) to use this basic knowledge to help improve teaching techniques to impact the learning of everyday children. He currently focuses on how people understand fractions and the equals sign.