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Trainee Board of The Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society. We represent undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, teachers, and other trainees.

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Image of MCLS chair Flavia Santos in front of the MCLS business meeting slides
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MCLS 2025 organizing committee standing in front of MCLS 2025 welcome slides
Flyer for MCLS trainee April Special: Participatory Design in Math Cognition and Learning Research. Includes the following information: Join us to explore how participatory design can shape research in mathematical cognition and learning through a series of short lightning talks by emerging scholars: Yijie (Valerie) He: Playful Learning of Math Equivalence: Design, Testing, and Analysis of a Game with Children and Caregivers. Xia Yang: Active Inquiry in Mathematics: A Participatory Framework for Bridging Experimental and Theoretical Probability. Liza Kahwaji: Assessment and Instruction in Mathematics: Knowledge Mobilization Through Researcher–Educator Partnerships Shuyuan Yu: Collective Efforts between Researchers and Educators to Improve Assessment and Instruction in Mathematics.
Flyer for MCLS trainee February Special: Math Cognition in Context. Includes the following information: Join our trainee research chair, Nicholas Vest, for a discussion on math cognition in context. We'll be reading Draper et al. (2022) to explore the publication challenges faced by researchers studying child development in Majority World/Global South/non-WEIRD/low- and middle-income countries. The article examines publication bias, generalizability, contextual relevance (especially in measurement), the impact of the funding cycle, and offers recommendations for more inclusive journals (Draper et al., 2022, Infant and Child Development). This discussion is in collaboration with the Math Cognition Reading Group, and all members are welcome to attend.
Flyer for MCLS Trainee December Special, with the following description: Speed Networking Events. Tuesday, December 3 at 4pm HKT / 7pm AEDT / 8am GMT / 9am CET AND at 11am EST / 8am PST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET. To launch this year’s mentoring program, we will have two speed networking events on December 3rd. Join us for one or both events! The events will give you the opportunity to informally chat with fellow MCLS members, build connections, and explore potential mentor, mentee, and buddy matches! The networking event is optional - you can sign up for the mentoring program without attending the event!
Flyer for MCLS trainee November Special: Pre- and Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities. Includes the following information: Join us to hear insights and advice on pursuing early career funding opportunities from: Andy Ribner (Assistant Professor, Chatham University), Nicole Scalise (Assistant Professor, Washington State University), and Lauren Westerberg (Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison). We will also share a working document of pre- and postdoctoral funding opportunities that may be of interest. *Note: This session will be centered on funding opportunities in the US. 
Flyer for MCLS trainee October Special: Creating an online experiment using jsPsych. Includes the following description: For this special, Vijay Marupudi (https://vijaymarupudi.com/) will guide you through designing an online experiment using jsPsych. Specifically, we will make a simple magnitude comparison interface, design an experiment using it, publish the study online, and understand the format of the data collected from the experiment (e.g., RT and accuracy). Some experience defining and using functions in R or Python and will be helpful.
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Flyer for MCLS trainee March Special: Opportunities with Ed Tech. Includes the following description: Join us for lightning talks from: Ben Motz (Indiana University), Cristina Zepeda, (Vanderbilt University), Teya Rutherford (University of Delaware), Jeremy Roschelle (Digital Promise). Speakers will share their experiences creating ed tech platforms for research, the affordances of using ed tech platforms for math cognition research, and the affordances and impacts of doing research in ed tech contexts.
Flyer for MCLS trainee January Special: Opportunities Outside of Academia: A Virtual Panel. Includes the following panel description: Join us for a Q&A with researchers across career stages in industry positions! We will be joined by: David Landy (Data Science Manager, Netflix), Dominic Gibson (Senior Researcher, Foundry10), Lindsey White (Human Services Survey Researcher, Mathematica), and Natalie Brezack (Research Associate II, WestEd). Additional information on other job opportunities outside of academia from members of the MCLS community will also be shared with panel attendees!
Flyer for MCLS trainee October Special: Data Processing Workshop on October 27. Includes the following Workshop Description: Before we even start data analysis, we need to spend quite a lot of time to make our dataset suitable for statistical analysis. Material we receive (e.g., log files from reaction time measuring software, outputs from online surveys) are far from ideal and need to be prepared. In this workshop, using some examples from numerical cognition we will see how we can use R to create a reproducible data pre-processing routine for both reaction time tasks and questionnaires. Making your data preprocessing reproducible (i.e., you can re-run the analysis at anytime) makes the process way more transparent, you can also trace back potential errors and correct them easily. You can also re-use bits and pieces of the code for different datasets. Link to materials: osf.io/ncv5a