Amanda Riske

Amanda Riske grew up in the theatre and developed a love for the arts, travel, and mathematics. As an educator, she strives to create contexts for learning that are relevant to current events, social justice topics, develop cultural competencies, and empathy in the math classroom. Amanda taught middle school and high school math in Oslo, Norway, Bonn, Germany, Shanghai, China, and currently, teaches at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. During the academic year 2016-17, she was part of a curriculum development team that researched and developed project-based and place-based modules for a traveling boarding international school. Her international teaching experience shaped her view of math as an interdisciplinary subject with opportunities to teach students perspective taking. Amanda will begin her doctoral studies in Learning, Literacies, and Technology at Arizona State University in the fall of 2018 to explore project-based learning as it relates to math education.