Jon Star

Advisory Board Member

Jon Star is a professor of educational psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He studies children’s learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra. His current research explores the development of flexibility in mathematical problem solving as well as the instructional and curricular interventions that may promote mathematical understanding. Star is also interested in the preservice preparation of middle and secondary mathematics teachers. Prior to his graduate studies, he spent six years teaching middle and high school mathematics.