Stepan Paul

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Bio

Stepan Paul received his PhD in Mathematics at the University of California Santa Barbara. He was a Lecturer at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo and UC Santa Barbara, and a Preceptor at Harvard University before starting at NC State in 2020.

Area(s) of Expertise

My primary area of research is in the scholarship of teaching and learning of mathematics. In particular, I am interested in how students' spatial and visualization skills influence their success in mathematics courses, and how computer-based and physical manipulatives affect the learning process in these courses. I am also interested in mathematical illustration of research-level mathematics, especially for the purposes outreach and education.

Publications

• 3D Manipulatives in Integral Calculus: Student Achievement and Confidence in Solids-Of-Revolution Tasks , Investigations in Mathematics Learning (2024)
• Multivariable Calculus Instructors’ Reports of Resource use , International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (2024)
• Resource Use and Student Engagement in Multivariable Calculus , SIGMAA on RUME Annual Conference (2024)
• Manipulative calculus: active learning with 3D models , Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics (2023)
• Three Points of Defect , (2023)
• What Can We Learn from Non-Euclidean Paper? , Bridges 2023 (2023)
• The Flat Klein Bottle Rendered in Curved-Crease Origami , Bridges 2021 (2021)
• Hyperbolic paper , Illustrating Mathematics (2020)
• Thermoformed surfaces. , Illustrating Mathematics (2020)
• 3D Printed Manipulatives in a Multivariable Calculus Classroom , PRIMUS (2018)

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