Barbara M. Brizuela

Born in the United States, though raised in Argentina and Venezuela, Bárbara M. Brizuela is a Professor of Education at Tufts University. She has an Ed.D from Harvard University where she studied under Eleanor Duckworth. Prior to that, she received a Master of Arts, General Studies in Education from Tufts and a Licenciada en Ciencias Pedagógicas from the Universidad de Belgrano. She was a Spencer Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1997 until 2000 and a Roy E. Larsen Fellow in 1996-1997. Her main research focus is on children's learning of written mathematical representations. She is a member of the [http://www.earlyalgebra.terc.edu/ Early Algebra Project] , an NSF-funded longitudinal study of the effects of introducing some algebraic concepts to children in elementary school and is the Principal Investigator of a recent study created to follow up the children of the Early Algebra study into middle and high school, also funded by the NSF.

She is one of the leaders of the new Tufts [http://ase.tufts.edu/education/programs/research/MSTE.asp Math, Science, Technology and Engineering Education] graduate research program.

In 2004, her book "Mathematical Development in Young Children: Exploring Notations" was published.

In 2008, she received a Fulbright Fellowship. [http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2008/03/people/notes/]

Bárbara is the mother of two.

Books

* [http://store.tcpress.com/0807744514.shtml Mathematical Development in Young Children: Exploring Notations]
* [http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/archive/2007/april/features/book_party.shtml Hacienda números: Las notaciones númericas vistas desde la psicología, la didáctica la historia]

Selected Journal Articles

* Brizuela, B. (2006). Young Children's Notations For Fractions. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 62 (3), 281-305
* Brizuela, B. M. & Schliemann, A. D. (2004). Ten year olds solving linear equations. For the Learning of Mathematics, 24 (2).
* Brizuela, B. M. & Lara-Roth, S. (2002). Additive relations and function tables. Journal of mathematical behavior, 20 (3), 309-319.
* Brizuela, B. M., & Sellers-García, M. J. (1999). School adaptation: A triangular process. American Educational Research Journal, 36 (2), 345-370.
* Brizuela, B. (1997). Inventions and conventions: A story about capital numbers. For the Learning of Mathematics, 17 (1), 2-6.

External links

* [http://www.tufts.edu/~bbrizuel/ Personal web page at Tufts]
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