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Laura Bofferding

Professor in Mathematics Education

Purdue University

Affiliations

College of Education

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Laura Bofferding is currently serving as a College Of Education Professor in Mathematics Education at Purdue University.

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Laura Bofferding

Purdue University

Professor in Mathematics Education

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mathematics education education mathematics applied mathematics educational research mathematics teacher education numeracy teacher education early childhood education learning sciences number theory preservice teacher education child development negative numbers integer addition stem education integer optimization education research classroom instruction teaching methods program comprehension problem-based learning linear board games third graders psychology special education human-computer interaction child-computer interaction educational strategies science education student learning curriculum & instruction second graders preservice teachers adaptation learning disabilities higher education mathematical optimization developmental psychology early childhood development developmental science applied developmental psychology narrative reading research mathematical programming adaptation strategies climate change mitigation climate change adaptation mental models virtual classroom online learning digital learning teaching ai educational robotics student teaching remedial education abstract interpretation instructional design educational contexts educational theory education reform spatial cognition symbol use symbolic techniques reference frame symbolic linguistic representation high school students negative integer understanding characterizing first graders secondary students concrete manipulatives teacher talk paths perceptual skills numerical structure temperature comparison language integer comparisons

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Second and Fifth Graders’ Changes in Strategies for Integer Addition. Mathematics Education Research Journal (2026)

educational strategieseducationeducational researchmathematics educationmathematics teacher educationnumeracy

Textbook Versus AI-Generated Word Problems. (2025)

language technologiescomputational linguisticslanguage learninglanguage

Composing Tangram Puzzles to Support Shape Transformation. Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12 (2023)

Laura BofferdingYi Zhu

shape transformationtangram puzzlesmathematicsmathematics educationmathematics teacher education

Missing Command as a Debugging and Problem Solving Task for Elementary Students. Proceedings. (2023)

Laura BofferdingMahtob Aqazade

computer scienceeducational psychologyeducationelementary studentslearning sciencescomputing educationcommunicationprogram comprehensionhuman-computer interactionmissing datadebuggerprogram analysisproblem-based learning

Spatial Reasoning and Debugging With Lego Structures. Proceedings. (2023)

Sezai KocabasYi ZhuLaura Bofferding

spatial technologiescomputer sciencesystems engineeringspatial reasoningautomated reasoningmodular constructionknowledge representation and reasoningcomputer-aided designlego structuresdesigninformation technologydurability performancegeometric modelingvehicular technologyhierarchical assembly

Students' Placement of the Parallelogram in Tangram Puzzles. Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting (2023)

Laura Bofferding

tangram puzzleslearning sciencescognitive science

Early Elementary Students’ Use of Shape and Location Schemas When Embedding and Disembedding. Education Sciences (2022)

Laura BofferdingLizhen ChenSezai KocabasMahtob Aqazade

elementary studentseducationstem educationlocation schemaslearning sciencesspatial cognition

Elementary Students #39; Conceptions of Programming on a Sorting Task. Aera (2022)

Laura Bofferding

computer scienceprogramming methodologyeducationelementary studentssorting taskprogramming languagesprogram analysiscomputing educationcomputational literacyprogram comprehensionmathematical programmingmathematics educationprogramming language teachingsorting algorithmscognitive sciencechild-computer interactioneducational technology

Teaching With Contrasting Examples: Helping Young Children Investigate Structure in Subtraction Problems With Integers. Young Children (2022)

early childhood educationeducationteacher educationmathematics educationchild developmentmathematics teacher educationnumeracy

The Effect of Play and Worked Examples on First and Third Graders' Creating and Debugging of Programming Algorithms. ACM eBooks (2022)

Laura BofferdingSezai KocabasMahtob AqazadeAna-Maria HaiducLizhen Chen

computer scienceeducationthird graderscomputing educationprogram comprehensionchild-computer interaction

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Laura Bofferding

Professor in Mathematics Education

Purdue University

Affiliations

College of Education

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Laura Bofferding is currently serving as a College Of Education Professor in Mathematics Education at Purdue University.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Laura Bofferding

Purdue University

Professor in Mathematics Education

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Second and Fifth Graders’ Changes in Strategies for Integer Addition. Mathematics Education Research Journal (2026)

educational strategieseducationeducational researchmathematics educationmathematics teacher educationnumeracy

Textbook Versus AI-Generated Word Problems. (2025)

language technologiescomputational linguisticslanguage learninglanguage

Composing Tangram Puzzles to Support Shape Transformation. Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12 (2023)

Laura BofferdingYi Zhu

shape transformationtangram puzzlesmathematicsmathematics educationmathematics teacher education

Missing Command as a Debugging and Problem Solving Task for Elementary Students. Proceedings. (2023)

Laura BofferdingMahtob Aqazade

Spatial Reasoning and Debugging With Lego Structures. Proceedings. (2023)

Sezai KocabasYi ZhuLaura Bofferding

Students' Placement of the Parallelogram in Tangram Puzzles. Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting (2023)

Laura Bofferding

tangram puzzleslearning sciencescognitive science

Early Elementary Students’ Use of Shape and Location Schemas When Embedding and Disembedding. Education Sciences (2022)

Laura BofferdingLizhen ChenSezai KocabasMahtob Aqazade

elementary studentseducationstem educationlocation schemaslearning sciencesspatial cognition

Elementary Students #39; Conceptions of Programming on a Sorting Task. Aera (2022)

Laura Bofferding

Teaching With Contrasting Examples: Helping Young Children Investigate Structure in Subtraction Problems With Integers. Young Children (2022)

early childhood educationeducationteacher educationmathematics educationchild developmentmathematics teacher educationnumeracy

The Effect of Play and Worked Examples on First and Third Graders' Creating and Debugging of Programming Algorithms. ACM eBooks (2022)

Laura BofferdingSezai KocabasMahtob AqazadeAna-Maria HaiducLizhen Chen

computer scienceeducationthird graderscomputing educationprogram comprehensionchild-computer interaction

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2
3
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