Co-PI, SJVMP (San Joaquin Valley Mathematics Project) and M2TL, 2021 to present
Co-Coordinator, Fresno Math Circle, Grade 3-6, 2021 to present
STaR Fellow, AMTE, fellowship for supporting early career professionals in mathematics
education, 2022 to present
Department Editor, NCTM, Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023 to
present
Mathematics Education
Mathematics Problem Solving
Productive Struggle
Use of Technology in Teaching
Teacher Education
- Lu Y. and Chavez G. (in press), “Fostering Self-Efficacy for Underrepresented Minority
Students: Pedagogical Innovations in a First-Semester Calculus Course”, Victor Martinez-Luaces’s
New Trends in Teaching and Learning of Calculus, Spring Nature.
- Lu Y (in press). “Characterizing undergraduates’ proving processes through the lenses of
stuck points”. New Direction in University Proving. Weber K, Savic M, editors. Research in Mathematics Education. Springer.
- Lu, Y. (2025). Overcoming impasses in proving processes: Novice provers’ productive actions
when encountering stuck points. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 77, 101211.
- Lu, Y., & Nowak, K. (2024). Problems to Ponder. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 117(12), 926-930.
- Küchle V., Karunakaran S., Levin M., Smith J., Lu Y., Castle S., Hwang J., & Elmore R. (2023), "Collapsing Spaces, Colliding Places:
Leveraging Constructs from Humanistic Geography to Explore Mathematics Classes," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 13 Issue 1, pages 54-69.
- Lu, Y. (2023), “In Proving Attempts that Generate Stuck Points, What Characterizes Undergraduate
Students’ Overall Proving Process?” Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics
Education (in press). Omaha, NE.
- Lu, Y., Amarasinghe R., Hough S., (2023) “Developing and Supporting Underrepresented Prospective Teachers’ Pedagogical
Content Knowledge for Teaching Diverse Students in High Needs Schools?”, Proceedings of 25th Annual Meeting of the Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, Feb. 22-26, 2023, Omaha, NE.
- Kuchle, V. & Lu, Y. (2021), A Tale of Spatial Collapse and Platial Collisions. Proceedings of the 43rd annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International
Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Philadelphia, PA
- Lu, Y. (2020), Characterizing Undergraduate Students’ Proving Processes out of Their “Stuck
Points”. In Karunakaran, S. S., Reed, Z., & Higgins, A. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics
Education (pp. 1223-1225). Boston, MA.
- Lu, Y. (2019), Characterizing Transition to Proof Courses: The Case of Liberal Arts Colleges.
In Weinberg, A., Moore-Russo, D., Soto, H., & Wawro, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of 22nd Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
(pp. 1148-1150). Oklahoma City, OK.
- Lu, Y. (2017). Elementary/Middle School Pre-service Teachers’ Understanding of Variability
and the Use of Dynamical Statistical Software. In E. Galindo & J. Newton, (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International
Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 1072-1073). Indianapolis, IN: Hoosier Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.
