Publications

  1. Ely, R., Ellis, A. B., Horne, D., Yasuda, S., & Bloodworth, A. (Submitted). Floating in a most peculiar way: The role of feedback in a playful calculus task. Submitted to 27th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.

  2. Ellis, A.B., Horne, D., & Bloodworth, A. (Accepted). Playful math: When student authoring generates novel mathematics. Submitted to Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.

  3. Ellis, A.B., Bloodworth, A., & Horne, D. (In Press). Playful math, problem posing, and discovered complexity. To appear in the Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.

  4. Bloodworth, A., Horne, D., & Ellis, A.B. (2023).  Students’ and mathematicians’ playful math engagement. In S. Cook, B. Katz, & D. Moore-Russo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (pp. 108-117). Omaha, NE.

  5. Horne, D., Bloodworth, A., & Ellis, A.B. (2023). Modeling mathematicians’ playful engagement in task-based interviews. In S. Cook, B. Katz, & D. Moore-Russo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (pp. 99-107). Omaha, NE.

  6. Ellis, A.B., Horne, D., Bloodworth, A., Nielsen, A., & Ely, R. (2022). Playful math: Modeling students’ engagement in play-based algebra activities. In A. E. Lischka, E. B. Dyer, R. S. Jones, J. Lovett, J. Strayer, & S. Drown (Eds.), Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 771- 780). Nashville, TN: Middle Tennessee University.

  7. Ely, R., & Ellis, A.B. (2022). Playful mathematics and learning. In Lischka, A. E., Dyer, E. B., Jones, R. S., Lovett, J. N., Strayer, J., & Drown, S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 2122 – 2124). Middle Tennessee State University. 

Conference Proceedings

  1. Ellis, A.B., Horne, D., Yasuda, S., &Bloodworth, A. (Submitted, 2025). Playifying your classroom: Designing and implementing playful math activities [Interactive session]. 2025 NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition.

  2. Ellis, A.B., Ely, R., Horne, D., Bloodworth, A., Yasuda, S., & Brienen, S. (Submitted, 2025). Undergraduate mathematical play: Teaching for learning and engagement [Conference presentation]. Joint Mathematics Meetings 2025. Seattle, WA.

  3. Ellis, A. B., Horne, D., Bloodworth, A., & Yasuda, S. (2024, October 17-18). Making Math Playful [Conference Presentation]. Georgia Mathematics Conference 2024. Rock Eagle, GA.

  4. Ellis, A.B., Horne, D., & Bloodworth, A. (2024, April 11-14). Playful math: Supporting students’ reasoning and engagement [Conference presentation]. 2024 AERA Annual Meeting.

  5. Ellis, A.B., Bloodworth, A., & Horne, D. (2023, October 24-25). Teaching with playful math: Exploring opportunities and challenges [Interactive session]. 2023 NCTM Research Conference. Washington, D.C.

  6. Bloodworth, A., Horne, D., Ellis, A. B. (2022, October 19-21). Reimaging tasks through playful mathematics [Interactive session]. Georgia Mathematics Conference 2022. Rock Eagle, GA.

Presentations