Rate My Professor Gregory Foley

Foley's research specializes in mathematics education, with emphasis on quantitative reasoning, inquiry-based instruction, cognitively demanding tasks, tools and technology to enhance student knowledge construction, spatial thinking, quantitative literacy, financial modeling, teacher professional development in statistics and modeling, and the mathematical transition from secondary to postsecondary education. He is the principal investigator of the U.S. National Science Foundation-funded QuantNetOhio project (award 2216197), which develops a statewide professional development network for effective teaching of undergraduate quantitative reasoning courses. Foley has co-authored key textbooks, including Advanced Quantitative Reasoning: Mathematics for the World Around Us (revised edition, 2017) with T. R. Butts, S. W. Phelps, and D. A. Showalter, and Precalculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic (AP 11th edition, 2024) with F. D. Demana, B. K. Waits, and others. Selected publications include "Instructional decision making in a gateway Quantitative Reasoning course" (Numeracy, 2024, with D. Budhathoki and S. Shadik), "More of the story: Ruminations on 'How Mathematics Education in Ohio Impacted the Nation'" (Ohio Journal of School Mathematics, 2024), "Instructor perspectives on quantitative reasoning for critical citizenship" (ZDM–Mathematics Education, 2023, with D. Budhathoki, A. B. Thapa, and H. P. Aryal), and "From gatekeeper to gateway: The role of quantitative reasoning" (Ohio Journal of School Mathematics, 2021, with P. W. Wachira). His work has earned awards such as the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges Award for Mathematics Excellence (1998), Teachers Teaching with Technology Leadership Award (2005), Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics Kenneth Cummins Award (2015), and Christofferson-Fawcett Award for lifetime contributions to mathematics education (2022).