Michelle Cirillo
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
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622 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
Michelle Cirillo is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences where she contributes to the department's and university's teaching mission and collaborates with mathematics instructors on research projects that make progress on problems of practice. She is particularly interested in the studying the teaching and learning of mathematical processes, such as proving and modeling, classroom discourse, and teachers' use of curriculum materials. She is especially interested in the space where these three areas intersect.
Office Hours
Friday: 9-10 and 2-3
2025 Fall Courses
MATH 599 - TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS

Past Courses
MATH 110: UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICS B II - TRIGONOMETRY

MATH 599: TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS

Research Interests
Teaching and learning mathematical proof
Teaching and learning mathematical modeling
Classroom discourse
Curriculum studies
Teacher Development
Journal Article
Beth A Herbel-Eisenmann, Michael D Steele, Michelle Cirillo. "A Framework for Professional Development." .

Kristen N Bieda, Brady Tyburski, Rileigh Luczak, Michelle Cirillo. "ELICITING CYCLES AS PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS LEAD WHOLE-CLASS DISCUSSIONS: AN INVESTIGATION OF MOMENTS OF TENSION." .

Michelle Cirillo. "EN TEACH| NG PROOF." .

Michelle Cirillo, Jamie Sutherland. "EXPLORING STUDENT THINKING THROUGH ALTERNATIVE GEOMETRY PROOF TASKS." .

Kyle T Schultz, LouAnn Lovin, Michelle Cirillo, Patricio G Herbst, Lu Pien Cheng, Lee Peng Yee, Anderson Norton, Michael Baldwin. "Full Publication PDF Cover PDF From the Editors PDF Guest Editorial... Examining Mathematics Teachers' Disciplinary Thinking PDF." .

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Chapter
Michelle Cirillo, Dana C Cox. "Reasoning Is in the Eye of the Lens-Holder: Observations Made Through the Lenses of Justification, Argumentation, and Proof at the High School Level." "Conceptions and Consequences of Mathematical Argumentation, Justification, and Proof," pp. 195--207. Springer International Publishing Cham, 2022.

Nathalie Sinclair, Michelle Cirillo, Michael de Villiers. "The Learning and Teaching of Geometry." "Compendium for Research in Mathematics Education," pp. 457--489. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2017.

Cirillo, Michelle, Pelesko, John A., Felton-Koestler, Matt,, \& Rubel, Laurie. "Perspectives on modeling in school mathematics." "Mathematical Modeling and Modeling Mathematics," pp. 3--15. NCTM, 2016.

Conference Proceeding
"(2020). Real-time coaching with secondary preservice teachers: The practices of mathematics teacher educators., Mexico (pp. 1567-1571). Cinvestav/AMIUTEM/PME-NA. https:/doi. org/10.51272/pmena. 42.2020-246."
2020.

"Communicating mathematics during small groupwork through video-conferencing applications"
2020.

"Decomposing proof in secondary classrooms: A promising intervention for school geometry"
2020.

"The UTE model: Developing pre-service teachers’ visions of high-quality mathematics instruction."
2019.

"Conceptions and consequences of what we call argumentation, justification, and proof"
2017.

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Other
"The question formulation technique: a tool for teaching mathematical modeling"
2016.

"Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey"
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2009.

"Promoting purposeful discourse: Teacher research in mathematics classrooms"
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2009.

"On becoming a geometry teacher: A longitudinal case study of one teacher learning to teach proof"
Iowa State University, 2008.