Sarah Sword, mathematics education expert and senior research scientist, has extensive experience in research, instructional design, professional development, assessment design, and strategies to improve the quality of K–20 mathematics learning and teaching.

Currently, Sword is a co-principal investigator of the project, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Humanizing and Enhancing the Learning of Proofs.” This project seeks to strengthen undergraduate students’ proof-writing abilities by using an AI model to provide feedback on student proofs.

Sword is the co-author of Mathematical Learning and Understanding in Education and has published numerous chapters and articles. She also co-developed the CME Project, a four-year high school curriculum.

Sword holds a PhD in Commutative Algebra from Michigan State University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland.