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An MTSU math faculty member and doctoral student are a part of a national award-winning team.
Assistant professor Jennifer Lovett and graduate student Demet Yalman Ozen, both from Murfreesboro, recently earned the 2021 Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators National Technology Leadership Initiative award.
The team included doctoral candidate Nina Bailey and associate professor Allison McCulloch of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; associate professor Lara Kristen Dick of Bucknell University; and associate professor Charity Cayton of East Carolina University.
They created a framework to teach undergraduates what to look for when trying to understand student thinking when the middle school or high school student is doing mathematics with technology.
“I think people are concerned about COVID and the ramifications, financially,” Lovett said.
Anyone with an income under $100,000 a year for a family of four will qualify for federal subsidies that will lower the monthly insurance premiums. If your income is low enough you qualify for low cost or free coverage through Husky.
“We found a lot of people are qualifying at this point for Medicaid, for the Husky,” Lovett said.
As of November the state says there were 897,975 Connecticut residents enrolled in Husky.
As far as enrollment with the two private insurance carriers on the exchange Access Health CT officials say the volume has been very steady.