Amanda Riske

Doctoral Student

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 Norway, Germany, China, and Washington, DC, USA. She also 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 is a doctoral student at Arizona State University in the Learning, Literacies, and Technology and uses design-based research to explore statistical literacy.