Lee University’s Dr. Laura Singletary received the 2025 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Linking Research and Practice Outstanding Publication Award for her article “Reasoning on Display: Supporting Students Argumentation” in the December 2024 issue of Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK–12. She was honored at the opening session of NCTM’s annual meeting held this October. 
 
Singletary co-authored the winning article with Dr. AnnaMarie Conner, professor of mathematics education at the University of Georgia; Julie Russell, mathematics teacher at Madison County High School; Dr. Jonathan Foster, assistant professor of mathematics education at the University of Albany; Dr. Hyejin Park, assistant professor of mathematics at Drake University; and Dr. Yuling Zhuang, assistant professor of mathematics education at Texas A&M University. 
 
“It was an honor for our article on connecting our research in mathematics education to classroom instructional practices to be recognized by our field’s leading national organization,” said Singletary, professor of mathematics. “Our hope is that this work contributes to the daily work of teachers as they guide students toward a meaningful understanding of mathematics.”   
 
The NCTM has increased its effort to link research and practice in mathematics education. As part of this initiative, the council created the Linking Research and Practice Outstanding Publication Award. The award recognizes work that integrates research and practice and is distributed to practitioner audiences. 
 
“For more than fifteen years, my research collaborators and I have investigated how teachers support collective argumentation in mathematics classrooms,” said Singletary. “Collective argumentation occurs when teachers and students work together to reach mathematical conclusions grounded in mathematical reasoning and justification from evidence. Simply put, our research explores how teachers help students make their mathematical thinking and reasoning central to classroom learning.” 
 
Singletary joined Lee’s faculty in fall 2012. She specializes in mathematics education and education research. She has published research in such publications as Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Mathematics Teacher, and Mathematics Teacher Educator.  
 
She has also mentored undergraduate student research, and her students have been published and presented their research at national conferences. Singletary earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Georgia and her Master of Arts in Teaching and her Bachelor of Arts from Lee University. 
 
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