José Martínez Hinestroza, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
Bio
José Martínez Hinestroza, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies and the Department of Mathematics. A former kindergarten and elementary school teacher in Colombia, his work focuses on bilingual mathematics education, including teaching and learning in dual language classrooms and preparing preservice teachers to teach bilingual children. Through his participatory research, he has engaged in sustained collaborations with bilingual, Latinx teachers and children. He currently explores ways to affirm bilingual children's ways of participating in mathematics lessons. In 2023, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER award.
Teaching
- Early childhood and elementary mathematics teaching methods
- Teaching bilingual children across the content areas
Research Interests
- Bilingual children's mathematics education
- Mathematics teacher education
- Participatory research with teachers and children
- Early childhood and elementary education
Degrees
- Ph.D., Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education, Michigan State University, 2019
- M.S., Interdisciplinary Studies for International Educators, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2011
- B.S., Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), 2002
Honors and Awards
- AAHHE Faculty Fellowship Program
- Year Awarded: 2022
- Organization: American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
- Service, Teaching, & Research (STaR) in Mathematics Education Fellow
- Year Awarded: 2020
- Organization: Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE)
Presentations
- A new angle on dreams: Connecting reading and geometry through dreamcatchers in a bilingual classroom [Workshop]
- Venue: The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Joint Conference for Elementary Literacy and Mathematics, Chicago, IL
- Presentation Date: June 2025
- Becoming a circle: A new materialist exploration of children's understanding of shape [Paper presentation]
- Venue: 15th International Congress of Mathematical Education, Sydney, Australia
- Presentation Date: July 2024
- Reorienting listening subject positions: Lexical inventions as legitimate sources of mathematical meaning in language-immersion classrooms [Paper presentation]
- Venue: Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Portland, OR
- Presentation Date: March 2023
Grants, Patents and Clinical Trials
- “CAREER: Affirming bilingual children's participation in mathematics (ABC-PAR).”
- Program: Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
- Funded by: The Spencer Foundation, The Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Duration: 2025-2026
- Total Dollars: $25,000
- Role: Sole PI
- “CAREER: Affirming bilingual children's participation in mathematics (ABC-PAR).”
- Program: Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
- Funded by: The National Science Foundation
- Duration: 2023-2025
- Total Dollars: $859,504
- Role: Sole PI
Publications
- Martínez Hinestroza, J. (2025). Reflections on ethical commitments in critical mathematics teacher education. In E. Suazo-Flores, S. E. Kastberg, M. R. Grant, & O. Chapman (Eds.), Mathematics teacher educators’ intimate scholarship: Embracing and diversifying ways of knowing in the field of mathematics teacher education (pp. 107–124). Emerald Group Publishing.
- Martínez Hinestroza, J., Strange, M. D., & Townsell, C. D. (2024). Centering pre-service teachers' whole selves: A collaborative approach to syllabus design. Mathematics Teacher Educator, 12(2), 89–110. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTE.2023-0031
- Martínez Hinestroza, J., Peña-Pincheira, R. S., & Adams Corral, M. (2023). Incouple numbers and dedómetros: Listening for meaning in bilingual children’s mathematical lexical inventions. ZDM – Mathematics Education, 55(6), 1101–1112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-023-01486-3
