Dr. Houbin Fang is an associate professor of Mathematics Education at the Department of Mathematics, Columbus State Unviersty, Columbus Ga. Dr. Fang has more than ten years teaching experiences in K12 and higher education combined. He has four years...More
Dr. Houbin Fang is an associate professor of Mathematics Education at the Department of Mathematics, Columbus State Unviersty, Columbus Ga. Dr. Fang has more than ten years teaching experiences in K12 and higher education combined. He has four years' teaching experience as a middle school math teacher in two international schools in China. In the united states, Dr. Fang has taught mathematics courses to pre-service Early Childhood teachers. In addition, he has been leading teachers' STEM training programs funded by the Educational Department of MS and GA respectively, for five years. Dr. Fang has published four papers during the past four years and give about 50 presentations at several national and international confereces. Dr. Fang's interest in the education of pre-school aged children stemmed from his teaching mathematics courses to ECE majors. He noticed that emotional and psycological factors, instead of intellectual capacities, limited pre-service teachers' mathematics abilities. When Dr. Fang discoverd taht this phenomenon can be generalized to virtually all aspects in life, he deeply realized the improtance of cultivating healthy emotional development in young children.
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