Bona Kang

Dr. Bona Kang

Education Department, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, USA
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Biography

Bona Kang is an Assistant Professor at Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU). She earned her B.A. in Cognitive Science and Ph.D. in Cognition and Development in Mathematics Education at University of California Berkeley. Her research focuses on elementary school children's numerical cognition and development, strategies and models for operations with fractions, preservice teacher mathematics education, and teaching and learning as a mathematics teacher educator. Prior to her position at OWU, she was a lecturer in the Education and Child Study department at Smith College. Her elementary school classroom experience includes teaching-research partnerships with a college-affiliated lab school in western Massachusetts and multi-classroom case studies and efficacy studies in diverse public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE, current Associate Vice President of the Membership Committee, STaR Fellows Program 2023 cohort), the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics (OCTM, current member of the DEI Professional Learning Community), and TODOS: Mathematics for All.

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Ohio Wesleyan University

Delaware, Ohio, USA

Education Department

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