Terri L. Kurz is an associate professor in mathematics education and holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction in mathematics education. She has over 80 total published articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, and conference presentations that primarily focus on using tools and technology to support learning and understanding in mathematics and STEM. Professor Kurz has an interest in improving how children are taught mathematics and frequently publishes practice-based articles to impact teaching and learning in the classroom. Her research-based articles and presentations often focus on understanding preservice teachers' changes in thinking in relation to teaching and learning. She specifically explores how tools and technology impact preservice teachers' understanding of concepts and how to teach those concepts. She has served for three years as editor in the integrating science, technology, and engineering into the mathematics classroom (iSTEM) department of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics journal, Teaching Children Mathematics. Professor Kurz primarily teaches mathematics content and methodology courses that use tools and technology to investigate concepts. She was a mathematics and social science middle school and high school teacher in Los Angeles County, California for seven years before becoming a university professor. She is designing and implementing lessons in her methodology courses that model how to seamlessly embed STEM explorations in the classroom.