Anairis de la Cruz Benito

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Anairis de la Cruz Benito

Hometown: Cochoapa, Guerrero, Mexico

Fall 2021 – present

PhD in Mathematics Education

Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship

 

The Fellows society has allowed me to enhance my knowledge in knowing the different kinds of research that people are conducting across the FSU campus.

Educational/Professional Background

Anairis is an indigenous Mexican, who studied her undergraduate and master’s program in Mathematics Education at Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, México. She received a Conacyt scholarship to complete a research stay at Universidad de Valencia, Spain. She worked a year as a middle school mathematics teacher in México. Anairis is currently a Fulbright scholar, studying her Ph.D. program in Mathematics Education at Florida State University.

Research and Teaching Interests, or Professional Field

I am currently interested in geometry proof at the high school level/preservice teachers. I want to research the methods of solution they used when they solve geometry proof problems.