Presentations

Panorkou, N. (2024) Mathematical Modeling in K-12 Education. Invited lecture at the College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, February 2024.

Panorkou, N. (2022) How to build and pivot your research agenda. Invited presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Education, Washington DC, November 2022.

Panorkou, N. (2018) When counting cubes is not enough: Exploring volume measurement dynamically. Invited presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Education, Washington DC, November 2018.

Panorkou, N. (2018). When counting cubes is not enough: Exploring volume measurement dynamically. Invited presentation at the special session “Excellence in Education Research: Early-Career Scholars and Their Work” of the annual American Educational Research Association conference, New York City, April 2018.

Panorkou, N. (2016). Unlocking the Power of Student’s Thinking on Geometric Measurement. Invited presentation given at the (New)3Conference, a joint conference of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of NEW York, the Association of Mathematics Teachers of NEW Jersey, and the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in NEW England, Iona College, June 2016.

Kobrin, J. & Panorkou N. (2015). Insight Learning System. Invited virtual presentation given at the SUDDS Lunch and Learn seminar series, College of Education, North Carolina State University, October 2015.

Panorkou, N., Greenstein S. & Krupa, E. (2015). Meaningful Technologies for Mathematical Thinking. Presentation given at the conference Interdisciplinary Mathematical Thinking in the Post-bac World, Montclair State University, April 2015.

Panorkou, N. (2014). Using learning trajectories for organizing the instructional core around CCSS-M. Presentation given at the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New Jersey (AMTNJ) conference, New Brunswick, October 2014.

Panorkou, N. (2013). Triggering the development of foundational mathematical reasoning in elementary schooling. seminar at Montclair State University, 18th February 2013.

Confrey J, Nguyen K., Lee K., Panorkou, N.  Corley A., Maloney A. (2012) “Turn on Common Core Math:  Unpacking the Learning Trajectories for Teachers”, research seminar at the Brown Bag seminar Series, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina university, 15th February 2012.

Panorkou, N. (2011) “Students experiences of dimension: A phenomenographic study”, research seminar at theBrown Bag Seminar Series, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina University, 14th September 2011.

Panorkou, N. (2011) “Designing windows for researching students’ experiences of dimension”, research seminar at the Mathematics Education Special Interest group, Institute of Education, University of London, 16th June 2011.

Panorkou, N.  (2011) “A phenomenographic study of students' experiences of dimension”, research seminar at the Midlands Mathematics Education Seminars, University of Nottingham 10th May 2011.

Panorkou, N. (2011) “Using Google SketchUp for researching students’ experiences of dimension”, research seminar at the Mathematics Education Special Interest group, Institute of Education, University of London, 27th January 2011.

Panorkou, N. & Provost, A. (July 2024). Engineering Students’ Covariational Reasoning in Investigations of Science Phenomena. Presentation to be given at the 15th International Congress on Mathematics Education, Sydney, Australia.

Panorkou, N. & Provost, A. (July 2024). Students’ Constructions and Reorganizations of Meanings about Multivariation. Presentation to be given at the 15th International Congress on Mathematics Education, Sydney, Australia.

Panorkou, N. & Provost, A. (June 2024). Integrating Math and Science through Interactive Simulations. Presentation to be given at the 2024 annual meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), Buffalo NY.

Provost, A. & Panorkou, N. (June 2024). Student’s Systems Thinking with the Water Cycle Simulation. Presentation to be given at the 2024 annual meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), Buffalo NY.

Panorkou, N., Provost, A. & Vas Nunes, H. (April, 2024). Supporting Students’ System Thinking of the Water Cycle through a Virtual Interactive Ecosystem Simulation. Presentation to be given at the 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. 

York, T. & Panorkou, N. (October, 2023). Shape Thinking and Students’ Activity with Simulations and Tables. Presentation given at the forty-fifth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. 

Provost, A. & Panorkou, N. (October, 2023). Exploring Lunar Phases by Co-Splitting Fractions and Angles Presentation given at the forty-fifth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. 

Provost, A., York, T., Lim, S., & Panorkou, N. (2023). Orchestrating Students’ System Thinking about the Rock Cycle.  Presentation given at the 2023 annual meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), Montreal CA, June 2023.

Provost, A. & Panorkou, N. (2023). Co-splitting Fraction and Angle Measures of a Circle to Reason about Lunar Phases. Presentation given at the 2023 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 2023.

Provost, A., Lim, S., York, T., & Panorkou, N. (2022). Bridging Frequentist and Classical Probability Through Design, Presentation given at the forty-fourth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Nashville, TN.

Germia, E., York, T., & Panorkou, N. (2022). How Transitions Between Related Artifacts Support Students' Covariational Reasoning. Presentation given at the forty-fourth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Nashville, TN.

Panorkou, N., York, T., Germia, E., & Kim, Youngjun (2022). Examining Students’ Progression of Variational, Covariational, and Multivariational Reasoning. Presentation given at the 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 2022.

Germia, E. & Panorkou, N. (2022). Students’ Reasoning About Dynamic Angles. Presentation given at the 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 2022.

York, T., Germia, E., Kim, Y., & Panorkou, N. (2021). Students’ reorganizations of variational, covariational, and multivariational reasoning. Online presentation given at the forty-third annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Philadelphia, PA, October 2021.

Panorkou, N. (2021). Dynamic Measurement for Area and Volume. Online presentation given at the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME), July 2021.

Germia, E. & Panorkou, N. (2021) Integrating covariational reasoning in the learning of science: the case of gravity. Online presentation given at the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME), July 2021.

Basu, D. & Panorkou, N. (2021) Task design features for integrating covariational reasoning with science. Online presentation given at the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME), July 2021.

York, T., Germia, E. & Panorkou, N. (2021). Integrating the STEM Disciplines Through Debugging. Online presentation given at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 2021.

Panorkou, N. & Germia, E. F. (2020). Examining students’ reasoning of multiple quantities. Presentation to be given at the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Mexico. (Conference postponed to June 2021)

Panorkou, N. & York, T. (2020). Designing for an integrated STEM+C experience. Presentation to be given at the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Mexico. (Conference postponed to June 2021)

Basu, D. & Panorkou, N. (2020b). Utilizing mathematics to examine sea level rise as an environmental and a social issue. Presentation to be given at the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Mexico. (Conference postponed to June 2021)

Samanthula, B. K., Mehran, M., Zhu, M. M., Panorkou, N., & Lal, P. (2020). Experiences toward an interactive cloud-based learning system for STEM education. Presentation to be given at the 10th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC). 

Panorkou, N. & Germia, E. (2020). Examining students’ quantitative reasoning in virtual ecosystem simulation of the water cycle. Presentation given at the 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), Nashville, June 2020.

Germia, E. & Panorkou N. (2020). Integrating covariational reasoning into the learning of gravity. Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, April 2020 (Conference canceled).

Basu, D. & Panorkou N. (2020). Examining students’ covariational reasoning and their understanding of the greenhouse effect through dynamic mathematical activities. Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, April 2020 (Conference canceled).

Basu, D. & Panorkou N. (2020). Fight climate change with mathematics! Annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Chicago, April 2020 (Conference canceled).

Germia, E. & Panorkou N. (2020). Integrating mathematics and coding into the learning of shadows. Annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Chicago, April 2020 (Conference canceled).

Basu, D. & Panorkou N. (2020). Examining the role of covariational reasoning in developing students’ understanding of the greenhouse effect. Presentation given at the eighth International Conference to Review Research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (epiSTEME 8), January 2020.

Germia, E. & Panorkou N. (2020). Exploring Angles in a Programming Environment. Presentation given at the eighth International Conference to Review Research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (epiSTEME 8), January 2020.

Panorkou, N. (2019). Examining Dynamic Measurement Reasoning for Area and Volume. Presentation given at the 41st annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA), St. Louis, Missouri, November 2019.

Panorkou, N. (2019). Exploring Dynamic Measurement for Volume. In M. Graven, H. Venkat, A. Essien & P. Vale (Eds.). Presentation given at the 43rd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 3, pp 177-184). Pretoria, South Africa: PME. 

Panorkou, N. (2019). Exploring Volume Measurement Dynamically. Presentation given at the Research conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Diego, California, April 2019.

Panorkou, N. & Basu, D.(2019). Exploring Gravity through Mathematics. Presentation given at the Research conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Diego, California, April 2019.

Basu, D.& Panorkou, N. (2019). Greenhouse effect: An Issue of Social Justice through Mathematical Lens. Presentation given at the Research conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Diego, California, April 2019.

Germia, E. & Panorkou, N. (2019). Exploring coordinates using coding. Presentation given at the the Research conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Diego, California, April 2019.

Germia, E. & Panorkou, N. (2019). Trending Mathematics with Coding. Presentation given at the Annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Diego, California, April 2019.

Vishnubhotla, M. & Panorkou, N. (2019). Explorethe Distinction between Quadratic and Exponential Growth Using Dynamic Tasks. Presentation given at the Annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Diego, California, April 2019.

Panorkou, N. (2019). Exploring Dynamic Measurement for Volume. Presentation given at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto Canada, April 2019.

Basu, D. & Panorkou, N. (2019).Examining the social aspects of the Greenhouse effect through mathematics. Presentation given at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto Canada, April 2019.

Basu, D.,Panorkou, N, & Zhu, M. (2019). Examining the social aspect of climate change through mathematics. Paper presented at the IEEE Integrated STEM education Conference (ISEC) 2019, Princeton, NJ.

Zhu, M., Gulati, S. & Panorkou, N.(2019). Simulation design and development for learning seasons and lunar phases using HTML5 and JavaScript.Paper presented at the IEEE Integrated STEM education Conference (ISEC) 2019, Princeton, NJ.

Basu, D. & Panorkou, N. (2019). Developing students’ consciousness about Greenhouse Effect through dynamic mathematical activities. Presentation given at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD, January 2019.

Panorkou, N.,Basu, D. & Vishnubhotla, M. (2018) Investigating volume as base times height through dynamic task design. Paper presented at the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PMENA), Greenville, South Carolina, November 2018.

Basu, D. & Panorkou, N. (2018) Expanding students’ contextual neighborhoods of measurement through dynamic measurement. Paper presented at the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PMENA), Greenville, South Carolina, November 2018.

Basu, D., & Panorkou, N. (2018) Examining the Social Aspects of Greenhouse Effect through Mathematical Modeling. Poster presented at the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PMENA), Greenville, South Carolina, November 2018.

Zhu, M., Panorkou, N., Etikyala, S., Basu, D., Street-Conaway, T., Iranah, P., Mazol, D., Hannum, C., Marshall, R., Lal, P. & Samanthula, B. (2018). Steerable Environmental Simulations for Exploratory Learning. Presentation given at theE-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning, Las Vegas, NV, United States.

Panorkou, N. (2018). Rethinking the teaching and learning of Area Measurement. Presentation given at the 13thInternational Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), London U.K., June 2018.

Panorkou, N.& Vishnubhotla M. (2018). Using Dynamic Design to Illustrate the Multiplicative Relationship of Area. Presentation given at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2018 Research Conference, Washington D.C., April 2018.

Basu, D. & Panorkou, N. (2018). Evaluating the impact of Dynamic Measurement on students’ thinking of area. Presentation given at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2018 Research Conference, Washington D.C., April 2018.

Panorkou, N., Greenstein, S. and Sevetko, J. (2018). Designing for Student and Teacher Agency in a Sandbox-style Video Gaming Environment. Presentation given at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York City NY, April 2018.

Zhu, M., Panorkou, N., Lal, P., Etikyala, S., Germia E.F., Iranha, P., Samanthula, B. K., Basu, D. (2018). Integrating Interactive Computer Simulation into K-12 Earth and Environmental Science. Presentation given at the IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, Princeton, NJ. 

Roeder, M. &Panorkou, N. (2017). Climb Aboard with Scratch Programming: An Engaging Way to Learn Coordinates. Presentation given at the 2017 NCTM Chicago Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 2017.

Roeder, M. &Panorkou, N. (2017). Climb Aboard with Scratch Programming: An Engaging Way to Learn Coordinates. Presentation given at the 2017 NCTM Orlando Regional Conference, Orlando, Florida, October 2017.

Panorkou, N. (2017). Dynamic Measurement: The crossroad of area and multiplication. Presentation given at the 39th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Indianapolis, IN, October 2017.

Vishnubhotla M. & Panorkou, N. (2017). A Learning Trajectory for Visualizing Area as a Dynamic Continuous Quantity. Presentation given at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2017 Research Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 2017.

Basu D., Vishnubhotla M. & Panorkou, N. (2017). Visualizing the area formula dynamically: Why length times width? Presentation given at the NCTM National Annual Meeting & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, April 2017.

Panorkou, N & Vishnubhotla M. (2017). Counting Square Units Is Not Enough: Exploring Area Dynamically. Presentation given at the 44thAnnual Meeting of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning, Fort Worth, Texas, March 2017. 

Seventko, J., Panorkou, N. and Greenstein, S. (2017). Balancing Teachers’ Goals and Students’ Play in a Sandbox-Style Game Environment.Presentation given at the 44thAnnual Meeting of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning, Fort Worth, Texas, March 2017. 

Panorkou, N., Vishnubhotla M. & Basu D. (2016). Making sense of length times width through Dynamic Task Design. Presentation given at the Annual conference of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New Jersey, December 2016.

Panorkou, N. (2016). Developing students’ thinking of dynamic measurement. Poster presented at the 38th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Tucson, AZ, November 2016.

Greenstein, S., Panorkou, N. & Seventko, J. (2016). Optimizing Teacher and Student Agency in Minecraft-Mediated Mathematical Activity. Paper presented at the 38th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Tucson, AZ, November 2016. 

Panorkou, N., Vishnubhotla M. & Basu D. (2016). Developing students’ thinking of dynamic measurement. Presentation given at the NCTM 2016 Regional Conference & Exposition: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2016. 

Panorkou, N.& Kobrin J. (2016). Enhancing teachers’ formative assessment practices: Using learning trajectories in professional development. Paper presented at the 13thInternational Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME), Hamburg, Germany, July 2016.

Panorkou, N.& Leszczynski E. (2016). Designing a clinical interview experience for pre-service elementary teachers. Presentation given at the Tenth Annual Conference of the New Jersey Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Trenton, NJ, June 2016.

Kobrin, J. & Panorkou, N.(2016). Designing Professional Development to support teachers in learning trajectory-based instruction. Paper presented at the Annual research conference of the National Council of the Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), San Francisco, April 2016.

Panorkou, N. & Kobrin, J. (2016). Designing Professional Development around Learning Trajectory-based instruction. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington DC, April 2016), April 2016.

Kobrin, J. & Panorkou, N. (2016). Learning Trajectories in Professional Development: Enhancing Teachers’ Formative Assessment Practices. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE), January 2016.

Panorkou, N. & Greenstein, S. (2015). A Learning Trajectory for Transformation-based Reasoning in Geometry. Poster presented at the 16thBiennial EARLI conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, August 2015.

Petrou, M. & Panorkou, N.(2015). Using the Knowledge Quartet as a tool for introducing the mathematics teaching practices. Paper presented at the 16thBiennial EARLI conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, August 2015.

Kobrin, J. & Panorkou, N. (2015). Using a Mathematics Learning Trajectory to Enhance Teaching Practices Through Formative Assessment. Presentation given at the New Jersey Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Ninth Annual Conference, May 2015.

Panorkou, N. & Greenstein, S. (2015). A Learning Trajectory for Transformation-based Reasoning in Geometry. Paper presented at the Research Council for Mathematics Learning Conference, Las Vegas, February 2015.

Scioscia, P. & Panorkou, N. (2014). Using NJVid in Teacher Education. Paper presented at the NJEDge Annual Conference, Plainsboro NJ, November 2014.

Panorkou, N. (2014). Using learning trajectories for organizing the instructional core around CCSS-M. Paper presented at the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New Jersey (AMTNJ) conference, New Brunswick, October 2014.

Panorkou, N., Maloney A., Confrey J. & Platt, D. (2014). Developing elementary students’ reasoning of geometric transformations through dynamic animation. Paper presented at the International conference on Constructionism, Austria, August 2014.

Panorkou, N. & Platt, D. (2014). Facilitating the teaching and learning of geometric transformations through motion animation. Paper presented at the Emerging Learning Design conference, Montclair State University, May 2014. 

Panorkou, N. (2014). Covariation and Correspondence relationships in elementary schooling.Paper presented at the Research Conference of the National Council of the teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), New Orleans, April 2014.

Maloney, A. & Panorkou, N. (2014). Learning trajectories as a Framework for Inservice Teacher Professional Development Courses.Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE), Irvine CA, February 2014.

Panorkou, N. & Maloney, A. P. (2014). Chopsticks, Lobsters, and Roadrunners: How Are They Related? Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the National Council of the teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), New Orleans, April 2014.

Confrey, J. & Panorkou, N. (2014). Fair-sharing: Many Times More than Meets the Eye! Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the National Council of the teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), New Orleans, April 2014.

Panorkou N., Maloney A. and Confrey J. (2013). A Learning Trajectory for Early Equations and Expressions for the Common Core Standards. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the International group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Chicago, November 2013.

Panorkou, N. (2013). Developing elementary students’ understanding of functional relationships. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teachers in New Jersey, East Windsor, October 2013.

Lee K., Panorkou N., Confrey J, Corley A., Nguyen K. H., Maloney, A. (2013). Supporting students’ early development of multiplicative structures, interactive paper session presented at the Annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), April 2013. 

Confrey J. Maloney A., Panorkou N., Lee K., Corley A., McGowan W. and Avineri T. (2013). Using learning trajectories to interpret the Common Core Math Standards, discussion session presented at the Annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), April 2013. 

Panorkou N. and Confrey J. (2012). Unpacking Shapes and Angles in CCSS-M, session presented at the Annual conference of the North Carolina Council of teachers of Mathematics (NCCTM), Oct 2012.

Confrey J., Maloney A., Nguyen K. H., Corley A., Panorkou N. and Lee, K. (2012)Interactive Diagnostic Assessments for Rational Number Reasoning: LPPSync, work session presented at the Annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), April 2012.

Panorkou, N. (2011). A phenomenographic study on students’ experiences of dimension, paper presented at the International Symposium Elementary Mathematics Teaching, August 2011.

Panorkou, N.and Pratt, D. (2011). Using Google SketchUp to research children’s experience of dimension, paper presented at the 35th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, July 2011.

Panorkou, N. (2011). Designing windows for researching children’s experiences of dimension, paper presented at the International conference of technology in mathematics teaching, July 2011. 

Panorkou, N. (2009). Changes of thinking about dimension, paper presented at the BERA Annual conference, University of Manchester, September 2009.

Panorkou, N. (2009). Thinking about dimension, seminar given at the PME conference, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, July 2009.

Panorkou, N.and Pratt, D. (2009). Mapping experience of dimension, seminar given at the PME conference, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, July 2009.

Panorkou, N. (2009). Mapping experience of dimension: Characterising dimensional thinking, seminar given at the BSRLM Day Conference, University of Cambridge, February 2009.

Panorkou, N. (2007). Embracing two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometry, seminar given at the Institute of Education Doctoral School Conference, June 2007.