Research
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Latest funding
- $54,946
Development of problem solving skills in students struggling with mathematics in the arithmetic to algebra transition phase
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
- $90,000
Examining tasks used in mathematics methods courses and their interpretations by preservice teachers
SSHRC · 2008 · Co-investigator
- $104,583
Mature students' emotional responses to procedural and theoretical approaches to mathematics teaching: the case of inequalities with absolute value
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
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Development of problem solving skills in students struggling with mathematics in the arithmetic to algebra transition phase
Principal investigators: Polotskaia, Elena
Keywords: (1) mathematical problem-solving; (2) mathematical thinking development; (3) learning difficulties; (4) arithmetic to algebra transition
Examining tasks used in mathematics methods courses and their interpretations by preservice teachers
Principal investigators: Osana, Helena P.
Keywords: mathematics education; mathematics teacher education; mathematics methods courses; task analysis; praxeology theory
Mature students' emotional responses to procedural and theoretical approaches to mathematics teaching: the case of inequalities with absolute value
Principal investigators: Sierpinska, Anna
Keywords: education; mathematics; adult education; affect in mathematics education; teaching approaches; inequalities with absolute value
Study of the phenomenon of frustration in mature students re-learning mathematics
Principal investigators: Sierpinska, Anna
Keywords: education; mathematics; mature student; re-learning; affect; emotions; frustration
Mathematical meaning and students' interpretations of computer representations of linear algebra concepts in specially designed didactic situations
Principal investigators: Sierpinska, Anna
Keywords: Linear algebra; computer environments of human learning; fundamental situations; cabri-geometry II
Meaning and communication in linear algebra: the case of the teaching and learning of the notion of linear operator and its eigenvalues with the computer algebra system MAPLE
Principal investigators: Sierpinska, Anna
Keywords: linear algebra; eigenvalues; communication; interactionism; discourse; epistemology; computer algebra systems
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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