Erin Marie Smith

Erin Smith is an assistant professor of mathematics education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She earned a PhD in learning, teaching, and curriculum from the University of Missouri and previously taught mathematics at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi and English as a foreign language in Seoul, South Korea. Her research focuses on increasing access to rigorous mathematics instruction for multilingual learners, caregiver engagement in mathematics education, and preparing culturally sustaining mathematics teachers.

Smith is a coauthor of Teaching Math to Multilingual Students, Grades K–8: Positioning English Learners for Success, published by Corwin in 2021. She has also published research on positioning multilingual learners in mathematics classrooms, including the article “Positioning Multilingual Learners.”