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$Math Spark — CURE Research Team — active research$

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Math Spark — CURE Research Team

“When we haven't taught you where to look yet — what mathematics do you see?”

The work: A course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) studying preservice teacher professional noticing and motivation to integrate math during shared storybook reading.
What we're learning: What preservice teachers spontaneously notice mathematically in ordinary children's storybooks — and what moves that noticing into instruction.

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Through-lines

Motivation first

Engagement is not a warm-up. It is the mechanism comprehension gains run through.

One book, many skills

Literacy, language, and math live in the same story when the questions are designed for it.

Built, then studied

Every finding becomes a tool a teacher or parent can run tonight — then the tool gets tested again.

Where this comes from

This study sits on twenty years of peer-reviewed work on reading comprehension, motivation, and engagement — including the Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction research line.

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