“…One approach to teaching empathy in mathematics classes is to link mathematics learning with design engineering projects (Burns & Lesseig, 2017;Van Mechelen, Schut, Gielen, & Södergren, 2019). In their publication, Burns and Lesseig (2017) defines empathy in the design process as placing oneself as the user of the product to be designed, and thinking about the various experiences that the user might experience. In the research of Van Mechelen, et al, empathy is generated by the existence of a common goal so that students will be moved to see what is needed to achieve that goal.…”