Julie Sarama

Julie Sarama is Distinguished University Professor and Kennedy Endowed Chair in Innovative Learning Technologies at the University of Denver. She has taught high school mathematics, computer science, middle school gifted mathematics, and early childhood mathematics. She has directed over 40 projects funded by NSF, IES, NIH, and OSEP. She conducts research on young children’s development of mathematical concepts and competencies, implementation and scale-up of educational reform, professional development models, and implementation and effects of software environments (including those she has create 10 books, 160 chapters, and over 250 additional publications. Research has documented that, in the entire field of Math Education, Dr. Sarama is the 9th most influential author in the USA, and the 11st in the world in the past half century. Across all fields, she was identified in Stanford University’s 2024 Top 2% Listd) in mathematics classrooms. These have been published in more than 130 refereed articles.