Rachel H. Kenney

Assistant Professor
Mathematics Education
Department of Curriculum & Instruction

Research

Research interests:  Mathematical Association of America, National Council for Teachers of Mathematics, and North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.

Education

Ph.D.	Mathematics Education, North Carolina State University
M.S.	Applied Mathematics, University of Dayton
B.S.	Mathematics, University of Dayton Minor in English

Selected Publications

• Kenney, R. (2008). The Influence of Symbols on Students’ Problem Solving Goals and Activities.  Proceedings of the 11th SIGMAA conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, San Diego, CA.
• Kenney, R. (2007). Students' uses and interpretations of symbols when solving problems with and without a graphing calculator. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
• Kenney, R. (2005). Students understanding of logarithmic functions. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
• Diestelkamp, W.S., Hartke, S.G., Kenney, R.H., (2004). On the degree of local permutation polynomials, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 50, 129-140.
  

Courses Taught

 

Professional Experience

2008-Present	Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2004-2008	Research Assistant, Project Bright IDEA II, Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, NC
2000-2008	Instructor of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
2000	Teaching Internship, Carroll High School, Dayton, OH
1999-2000	Graduate Assistant, University of Dayton Mathematics Department, Dayton, OH