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MathsThroughStories.org is an international research-based initiative which sets out to explore various aspects of integrating children's literature (e.g. picture books, chapter books, manga) and imaginative story writing in mathematics instruction. Our mission is to make mathematics teaching more accessible and more enjoyable for learners everywhere through the power of story telling and children's imagination.
Currently, we are collaborating with researchers and teacher educators in 40 countries across 16 world regions:
North America (USA & Canada), Latin America (Brazil), Caribbean (Trinidad & Tobago), Western Europe (England, Scotland & Ireland); Northern Europe (Russia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland & Estonia); Southwestern Europe (Portugal); South and Southeastern Europe (Greece, Italy & Malta); Central and Eastern Europe (the Czech Republic, Poland & Romania); Oceania (Australia & New Zealand); Western Asia (Turkey); Middle East (Israel & United Arab Emirates); Southern Africa (South Africa & Botswana); Western Africa (Nigeria); South Asia (India & Sri Lanka); East Asia (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan & South Korea), and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam & Cambodia).
We are keen to work with colleagues in countries that we have not yet had presence in. If you are interested in collaborating with us, please e-mail [email protected].
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Dr. Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai currently serves as the Director of Research Communications, the Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research Studies, and Lecturer in Primary Mathematics Education at the University of Reading's Institute of Education.
His research interests are centred around the use of storytelling (particularly in the story picture book format) to help enrich mathematics teaching and learning experiences.
He also leads the MathsThroughStories.org project, which sets out to investigate various aspects of using mathematical story picture books in mathematics education. The website also offers valuable and free resources for parents and teachers. Since its launch in March 2017, the website has now been viewed over 300,000 times by more than 60,000 teachers and parents from over 180 countries around the world.
In addition to his lectureship in Primary Mathematics Education, Dr. Trakulphadetkrai also serves as an executive committee member and trustee of the UK Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) and the Co-Convenor of the British Educational Research Association’s (BERA) Mathematics Education Special Interest Group (SIG). Previously, he served as an executive committee member of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM); as Chair of the British Congress of Mathematics Education’s (BCME) Communications Committee as well as Co-Editor of the Mathematical Association’s (MA) Primary Mathematics Journal.
His research interests are centred around the use of storytelling (particularly in the story picture book format) to help enrich mathematics teaching and learning experiences.
He also leads the MathsThroughStories.org project, which sets out to investigate various aspects of using mathematical story picture books in mathematics education. The website also offers valuable and free resources for parents and teachers. Since its launch in March 2017, the website has now been viewed over 300,000 times by more than 60,000 teachers and parents from over 180 countries around the world.
In addition to his lectureship in Primary Mathematics Education, Dr. Trakulphadetkrai also serves as an executive committee member and trustee of the UK Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) and the Co-Convenor of the British Educational Research Association’s (BERA) Mathematics Education Special Interest Group (SIG). Previously, he served as an executive committee member of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM); as Chair of the British Congress of Mathematics Education’s (BCME) Communications Committee as well as Co-Editor of the Mathematical Association’s (MA) Primary Mathematics Journal.
Our Co-Investigators are listed alphabetically by their last name
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Dr. Juli-Anna Aerila
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Dr. Aerila has led or contributed to six research projects relating children’s literature and reading in Finland over the past five years, and has actively published her research findings in both English- and Finnish-language peer-reviewed journals in her field.
Dr. Aerila has joined the project since July 2014.
Dr. Aerila has joined the project since July 2014.
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Dr. Marié Botha
Co-Investigator (South Africa) Lecturer in Foundation Phase/Numeracy Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Pretoria [email protected] |
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Dr. Botha is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education of the University of Pretoria where she teaches early childhood education and mathematics. She holds a PhD in Education and her research interests include early childhood education, professional teacher identity, early science and mathematics. She supervises a number of masters and PhD students.
In 2000, she was the recipient of a language teaching “Fulbright Scholarship” at the Indiana University. In 2008-2012, she received the “Project Sustain NUFO Grant” for research in sustainable science and mathematical teaching. She was a member of the EU and the South African Department of Higher Education grant where she coordinated the research focus group: Mathematics, Science and Technology. She has published several peer-reviewed papers in journals and has presented many conference papers nationally and internationally. She is a member of the South African Research Association of Early Childhood Education (SARAECE) and the South African Academy for Science and Arts (invited membership). She is also a member of the South African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. She serves as evaluator for teacher education programmes at the South African Council for Higher Education (2005 -2016).
Dr. Botha has joined the project since March 2016.
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Ms. Naomi Chen-Haddad Co-Investigator (Israel) Lecturer in Mathematics Education Faculty of Education, Oranim Academic College of Education [email protected] |
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Ms. Chen-Haddad has an M.Ed in Educational Leadership from the University of Alabama, U.S.A. She teaches mathematics education courses for elementary school program and the early childhood education program at the Faculty of Education, Oranim Academic College of Education in Israel.
Ms. Chen-Haddad has joined the project since April 2016.
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Dr. Chia-Huang Chen
Co-Investigator (Taiwan) Associate Professor in Mathematics Education National Taichung University of Education [email protected] |
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Dr. Chen has completed his PhD in 2004 at National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan. He is an Associate Professor in Mathematics Education at National Taichung University of Education. He is a member of a number of research teams investigating mathematics education in primary and middle school contexts and has published widely in national publications in the areas of mathematics education. Dr. Chen’s research interests include remedial instructions of mathematics for disadvantaged students; pre-service teachers and primary teachers' education, curriculum studies in school mathematics, psychology of learning mathematics. He recently participate National project of Mathematics Remedial Instruction for Primary Graders.
Dr. Chen has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Margareta Engvall
Co-Investigator (Sweden) Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy and Mathematics Education Division of Education, Teaching and Learning, Linköping University [email protected] |
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Dr. Engvall served as a primary teacher for more than 20 years, but is now a senior lecturer in Pedagogy and Mathematics Education at Linköping University. She has been teaching Mathematics Education in the Teacher Training program (primary level) for more than ten years and in recent years also in the Special Education postgraduate program.
She earned her PhD in Pedagogy and Mathematics Education in 2013. Her research interests are mathematics teaching and learning in the early school years, with particular interest in communication in the classroom and teacher-student interaction. She has also a keen interest in international perspectives on mathematics education and was awarded scholarship from The Scholarship Foundation for Studies of Japanese Society 2014 to visit schools in Japan and do lesson observations of Primary Math lessons.
Dr. Engvall has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Marie Therese Farrugia
Co-Investigator (Malta) Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Primary Education Faculty of Education, University of Malta [email protected] |
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Dr. Farrugia is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta. Her area of specialisation is Early Childhood and Primary Mathematics Education. Dr. Farrugia teachers on two Bachelor of Education programmes – Early Childhood and Primary - preparing trainees to teach ages 3 – 11. She also teaches at post-graduate level, and supervises research at Master and PhD level.
Dr. Farrugia has recently served a four year term as the Head of Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education, one of the departments within the Faculty. Her research interests are bilingual and multilingual mathematics education contexts, code-switching, mathematics registers and semiotic systems. Dr. Farrugia is presently carrying out a case study research project focusing on the explicit teaching of the use of mathematical language at primary level.
Dr. Farrugia has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Haneet Gandhi
Co-Investigator (India) Assistant Professor in Education Department of Education, University of Delhi [email protected] |
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Dr. Gandhi's research interests include probabilistic learning; integrating historical evolutions of mathematical concepts and processes in the curriculum; teacher’s preparation and their empowerment through content specific knowledge; and problem-solving and problem-posing for promoting mathematical thinking.
She holds a doctoral degree in Mathematics Education from the University of Lucknow, and postgraduate degrees in both Mathematics and Education. Her work involved understanding middle graders’ meta-regulation strategies while solving problems in mathematics. Dr. Gandhi is currently engaged in teaching of courses related to Pedagogy of Mathematics and Quantitative Methods in Educational Research in the Department of Education, University of Delhi, India.
Dr. Gandhi has joined the project since February 2016.
Dr. Gandhi's research interests include probabilistic learning; integrating historical evolutions of mathematical concepts and processes in the curriculum; teacher’s preparation and their empowerment through content specific knowledge; and problem-solving and problem-posing for promoting mathematical thinking.
She holds a doctoral degree in Mathematics Education from the University of Lucknow, and postgraduate degrees in both Mathematics and Education. Her work involved understanding middle graders’ meta-regulation strategies while solving problems in mathematics. Dr. Gandhi is currently engaged in teaching of courses related to Pedagogy of Mathematics and Quantitative Methods in Educational Research in the Department of Education, University of Delhi, India.
Dr. Gandhi has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Alexandra Gomes
Co-Investigator (Portugal) Assistant Professor in Elementary Mathematics Institute of Education, University of Minho [email protected] |
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Dr. Gomes is an assistant professor at the Institute of Education, University of Minho where she teaches and supervises postgraduate research in Elementary Mathematics and Didactics of Mathematics. She has written several articles and book chapters on elementary mathematics and mathematics education.
Her main research interests are: mathematical knowledge of elementary school teachers; mathematical training of elementary mathematics teachers; teaching and learning at elementary school (especially geometry); designing and developing mathematical tasks (for mathematical teacher training).
Dr. Gomes has joined the project since March 2016.
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Ms. Guðný Helga Gunnarsdóttir
Co-Investigator (Iceland) Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education Faculty of Education, University of Iceland [email protected] |
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Ms. Guðný H. Gunnarsdóttir is a senior lecturer in Mathematics Education. She has long experience as a teacher educator and a textbook author in mathematics for both primary and lower secondary level (Grades 1-10). Her research interests are professional development of mathematics teachers, lesson study, teacher education and instructional practices in mathematics classrooms.
Ms. Guðný H. Gunnarsdóttir has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Lorraine Harbison
Co-Investigator (Ireland) Lecturer in Mathematics, Mathematics Methods, ICT and Assessment Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin [email protected] |
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Dr. Harbison is responsible for devising, delivering and assessing programmes in primary school mathematics subject knowledge competency; mathematics pedagogies; and the use of technology to support teaching, learning and assessment, across all four years of the B.Ed. programme. She is also responsible for co-ordinating and contributing to a module on assessment for final year students. She engages in teaching practice tutorial work and school placements. She supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
Dr. Harbison's current research mainly concentrates on promoting equality of access and participation in the mathematics classroom from junior infants through to the end of first year in secondary school. She considers the use of the educational framework, Universal Design for Learning, to address and respond to the diversity of needs of all learners by identifying and removing barriers to learning in order to support inclusion.
Dr. Harbison has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Mai Khanh Hoang
Co-Investigator (Vietnam) Dean of Faculty of Education & Head of the Department of Pedagogy Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City [email protected] |
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Dr. Hoang holds a doctorate in Education from the University of Paris X Nanterre, France. She specializes in Family Education and Child Development. Her research interest focuses on educational practices of Vietnamese parents in relation to the child’s autonomy, and social-emotional learning in school setting.
Dr. Hoang has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Jodie Hunter
Co-Investigator (New Zealand) Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education Institute of Education, Massey University [email protected] |
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Dr. Hunter's research interest includes investigating aspects of mathematics teaching and learning that are conducive to fostering early algebraic reasoning in primary classrooms. More recently, she is also interested in the development of culturally responsive teaching for Pasifika students (indigenous students of the Pacific Islands) in the mathematics classroom through stronger home/community and school partnerships.
She has completed her doctoral degree in 2014 at Plymouth University (UK), and has since published her works in several international peer-reviewed journals, such as Mathematics Education Research Journal, British Educational Research Journal, and Teaching and Teacher Education.
Dr. Hunter has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Maitree Inprasitha
Co-Investigator (Thailand) Dean of the Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University Director of the Center for Research in Mathematics Education, Khon Kaen University Director of the Institute for Research and Development in Teaching Profession for ASEAN, Khon Kaen University President of the Thailand Society of Mathematics Education (TSMEd) [email protected] |
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Dr. Inprasitha is an assistant professor in Mathematics Education Program at the Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. He holds Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Tsukuba, Japan and has long experiences in studying Japanese lesson study for more than 15 years. His main research focus and publications revolve in Mathematics Education and teaching style of Lesson Study and Open Approach. He has been overseeing the APEC Lesson Study series since 2006 until present. 19 APEC member economies have been participating in this project and created their Lesson Study community in APEC. This project supported by Office of the Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education, Thailand.
He was on International Program Committee (IPC) for EARCOME in 2007-2013 and Advisory board in 2015. He hosted EARCOME 6 in Phuket, Thailand in 2013. In 2015, he is a chief editor of Mathematics Education Book Series 3: Lesson Study: Challenge in Mathematics Education. He is currently on the IPC of ICMI Study 23: Primary Mathematics Study on Whole Number.
Dr. Inprasitha has joined the project since February 2016.
He was on International Program Committee (IPC) for EARCOME in 2007-2013 and Advisory board in 2015. He hosted EARCOME 6 in Phuket, Thailand in 2013. In 2015, he is a chief editor of Mathematics Education Book Series 3: Lesson Study: Challenge in Mathematics Education. He is currently on the IPC of ICMI Study 23: Primary Mathematics Study on Whole Number.
Dr. Inprasitha has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Pozdeeva Svetlana Ivanovna
Co-Investigator (Russia) Professor in Primary Education and Head of Department Primary Education Department, Tomsk State Pedagogical University [email protected] |
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Dr. Ivanovna is a professor in Primary Education at Tomsk State Pedagogical University (TSPU). Currently, she is also the Head of the TSPU’s Primary Education Department; the scientific leader of Joint Activity School (school № 49, Tomsk); Vice Deputy of the Dissertation Council on pedagogy at TSPU; and the Deputy Editor in Chief of ‘Pedagogical Review’.
In 2005, she defended Ed. Dr viva voca at Tomsk State Pedagogical University on the topic of ‘Concept of the open joint activity between teacher and child at primary school development’. Previously in 1992, she also defended PhD viva voca at Russian State Pedagogical University on the problem of assessment organization at Russian language classes in a primary school.
Her research interests include: innovative educational programs; teachers’ professional development; primary education; native language teaching methods.
Dr. Ivanovna has joined the project since March 2016.
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Ms. Sharon Jaggernauth
Co-Investigator (Trinidad and Tobago) Assistant Lecturer School of Education, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine [email protected] |
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Ms. Jaggernauth has joined the project since March 2016.
Ms. Jaggernauth has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Haiyue Jin
Co-Investigator (Mainland China) Lecturer Faculty of Elementary Education, Nanjing Normal University, [email protected] |
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Dr. Haiyue Jin is a lecturer at the Faculty of Elementary Education, Nanjing Normal University, China. She obtained her PhD from National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interest covers the teaching and learning of mathematics, teacher education, assessment of mathematical achievements, and international comparative studies.
Dr. Jin has joined the project since July 2016.
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Dr. Darina Jirotkova
Co-Investigator (Czech Republic) Lecturer Faculty of Education, Charles University [email protected] |
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Dr. Jirotkova has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Ina Joubert
Co-Investigator (South Africa) Associate Professor and Head of Department Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Pretoria [email protected] |
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Professor Joubert is an associate professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria where she acts as head of department. She is a member of the World Education Research Association and serves on the management committee of the South African Research Association of Early Childhood Education (SARAECE).
Professor Joubert specialises in democratic citizenship education and language education related to the young child. Her research is disseminated in several articles in these fields in accredited national and international journals. She has published scholarly books. In addition, she has published and contributed chapters to several subject-related scientific books. She has mentored postgraduate students to completion in the fields of democratic citizenship education and language education in the Foundation Phase; some of whom have excelled in their careers as a result of their degrees.
Professor Joubert has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Kevin Larkin
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Dr. Larkin is Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Griffith University. He is a member of a number of research teams investigating mathematics education in primary and middle school contexts and has published widely in national and international publications in the areas of mathematics education, ICT, school leadership, and Activity Theory.
He is the current Vice President Communications for the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA).
Dr. Larkin has joined the project since January 2015.
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Dr. Sharyn Livy
Co-Investigator (Australia) Lecturer in Early Years and Primary Mathematics Education Faculty of Education, Monash University [email protected] |
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Dr. Sharyn Livy is a lecturer of early years and primary mathematics education in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. She is passionate about providing pre-service teachers and teachers with positive mathematical experiences that promote understanding and knowledge for teaching. Other interests include effective numeracy teaching, engaging learners, making mathematics meaningful, specialised knowledge for teaching primary mathematics, use of rich tasks and geometric reasoning.
Dr. Livy has joined the project since September 2016.
Dr. Livy has joined the project since September 2016.
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Dr. Ioana-Cristina Magdas
Co-Investigator (Romania) Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Computer Science Education Department of Didactics of Exact Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University [email protected] |
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Dr. Magdas’s domains of specializations include Mathematics, Didactics of Mathematics, Didactics of Computer Sciences and Computer Assisted Learning. With more than 20 years in preparing mathematics and computer science teachers, her teaching experience includes a two years stage of teaching in the USA as a visiting professor. Dr. Magdas’s research is mainly focused on methodology of teaching mathematics at primary and secondary level and on implementation of new technologies in education. She has actively published her research findings in books and in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Magdas has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Ema Mamede
Co-Investigator (Portugal) Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education Institute of Education, University of Minho [email protected] |
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Dr. Mamede (Bach, MPhil, PhD) is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho. She has been teaching mathematics and didactic of mathematics for primary school teachers and pre-school educators since 1997. Her research on mathematics education focuses on teaching and learning of mathematics in elementary school, having a main interest in the children’s development of number sense, and teaching and learning of rational numbers.
Dr. Mamede has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Zvia Markovits
Co-Investigator (Israel) Associate Professor in Mathematics Education Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and Arts [email protected] |
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Professor Markovits teaches mathematics education courses for the elementary school program, the early childhood education program, and the M.Ed program. Her research interests are mathematics in the early years (children and pre-school teachers), the use of cases in mathematics teacher education, mathematics and gender and the development of number sense. She publishes and presents at international scholarly conferences in these fields.
She has a B.Sc. in applied mathematics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and an M.Sc and Ph.D in mathematics education from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Professor Markovits has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Fiona McGarry
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Dr. McGarry has a background in primary teaching and has taught in state schools in Scotland and England from Nursery to S level. She has also worked in youth theatre, and has written for stage and for BBC Education Broadcasting. Her current teaching focuses on Expressive Arts, Creative Learning, Modern Languages (German), and Research Methods, and she works with both pre- and in-service teachers on the MA, PGDE and MEd programmes. Her research interests are on the evaluation and assessment of arts-based learning. Her PhD explores the impact of story-based learning on primary school pupils.
Dr. McGarry has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Ruzlan bin Md. Ali
Co-Investigator (Malaysia) Senior Lecturer School of Education and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia [email protected] |
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Dr. Md-Ali is an Associate Professor at Universiti Utara Malaysia. He holds a Ph.D in Mathematics Education from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom (2006). He has a B.Sc.Ed. (Hons) in Mathematics/Biology (Universiti Malaya) and M.Sc. in Educational Psychology (Universiti Putra Malaysia). Dr. Md-Ali has more than 30 years of experience teaching mathematics and preparing teachers to teach both primary and secondary mathematics. Among the subjects he is teaching at the university are Mathematics Teaching Methods and Issues in Mathematics Education at the undergraduate level as well as Research Methodology at the Masters/Ph.D level.
Prior to becoming a lecturer at Universiti Utara Malaysia, he has been involved in the field of Mathematics Education as a mathematics teacher and as a mathematics education lecturer at teacher training colleges. Dr Md-Ali research interests include learning and instruction of mathematics, the psychology of learning mathematics, assessment of learning, and teacher education.
Dr. Md. Ali has joined the project since February 2016.
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Sue Miller
Co-Investigator (Ireland) Head of Library Services Church of Ireland College of Education [email protected] |
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Sue Miller is Head of Library Services at Church of Ireland College of Education and has a personal as well as professional interest in children’s literature.
Her current research interest is in developing the use of children’s literature in classroom settings and she is also very active in developing links between academic researchers and children’s literature collections.
Ms. Miller has joined the project since April 2016.
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Dr. Christina Misailidou
Co-Investigator (Greece) Lecturer in Mathematics Education Faculty of Primary Education, University of Athens [email protected] |
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Dr. Misailidou has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Nagisa Nakawa
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Dr. Nakawa completed her doctoral research on Zambian mathematics education through action research in collaboration with Zambian local primary school teachers. More specifically, she investigated the relationship between mathematics teaching, learning and instructional materials as well as discussed socio-cultural issues which are thought to influence primary mathematics classroom. Dr. Nakawa is strongly interested in primary mathematics education in developing countries, such as Nepal, Timor-Leste and other African countries. Additionally, she is also engaged in projects for curriculum development in mathematics education for kindergartens and primary schools in Japan.
Dr. Nakawa used to live in Zambia as a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) volunteer, teaching mathematics in a primary school. Having fully immersed in African culture, she loves its people, dance and its ways of life. She also experienced her life in England as an exchange student at the University of Birmingham.
Dr. Nagawa has joined the project since November 2015.
Dr. Nakawa used to live in Zambia as a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) volunteer, teaching mathematics in a primary school. Having fully immersed in African culture, she loves its people, dance and its ways of life. She also experienced her life in England as an exchange student at the University of Birmingham.
Dr. Nagawa has joined the project since November 2015.
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Dr. Barbara Nawolska
Co-Investigator (Poland) Lecturer in Primary Matematics Education Faculty of Pedagogy, Pedagogical University of Cracow [email protected] |
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Dr. Nawolska is a lecturer at the Institute of Pre-school and School Education, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland.
Her research interests focus around the process of learning and teaching mathematics in early childhood education and pre-school education. Dr. Nawolska has extensive experience in educating future teachers for the pre-school and early school level. She underlines the high value of children's mathematical activation, the use of mathematical regularity and the use of a variety of errors in the process of teaching children mathematics.
Dr. Nawolska has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Guri Nortvedt
Co-Investigator (Norway) Associate Professor in Education Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo [email protected] |
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Dr. Nortvedt has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Pedro Palhares
Co-Investigator (Portugal) Associate Professor in Mathematics Education Institute of Education, University of Minho [email protected] |
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Dr. Palhares is Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Institute of Education, University of Minho. He has been teaching mathematics and didactics of mathematics for primary teachers and preschool educators since 1988.
His main interests in research are: ethnomathematics; mathematical games; connections within mathematics and to other areas; mathematical problem solving.
Dr. Palhares has joined the project since March 2016.
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Ms. Guðbjörg Pálsdóttir
Co-Investigator (Iceland) Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education Faculty of Education, University of Iceland [email protected] |
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Ms. Guðbjörg Pálsdóttir is Associate Professor in Mathematics Education. She has long experience as a compulsory school teacher, a teacher educator and a textbook author in mathematics for both primary and lower secondary level (Grades 1-10). Her research interests are mathematics in pre-schools, professional development of mathematics teachers, lesson study, teacher education and instructional practices in mathematics classrooms.
Ms. Guðbjörg Pálsdóttir has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Jeong Suk Pang
Co-Investigator (South Korea) Professor in Mathematics Education Department of Elementary Education (Mathematics Education), Korea National University of Education [email protected] |
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Dr. JeongSuk has joined the project since March 2016.
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Ms. Sirje Piht
Co-Investigator (Estonia) Lecturer in Primary School Education School of Educational Sciences, Tallinn University [email protected] |
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Ms. Sirje Piht, MA, is a Lecturer in Primary School Education at the School of Educational Sciences of the Tallinn University, Estonia. Her main areas of research interest are behavior problems at school and bullying-free school; mathematics learning and mental arithmetic; play-based learning.
She is an author of mathematics textbooks and games as well as other methodical books in primary education in Estonia.
Ms. Piht has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Mark Prendergast
Co-Investigator (Ireland) Assistant Professor in Education School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin [email protected] |
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Dr. Prendergast is an assistant professor in mathematics education at Trinity College Dublin. He qualified as a second level mathematics teacher from the University of Limerick in 2007 and completed his PhD in mathematics education, also in the University of Limerick, in 2011. He has taught both mathematics and mathematics education to a wide variety of learners. His research interests are in teacher education and mathematics education, with a particular interest in the teaching and learning of algebra at second level and in promoting student interest and enjoyment of mathematics.
Dr. Prendergast has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Sarah Powell
Co-Investigator (USA) Assistant Professor in Special Education College of Education, University of Texas at Austin [email protected] |
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Dr. Powell is an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Sarah earned her doctoral degree at Vanderbilt University, and her dissertation focused on providing instruction about the equal sign (=) to students with mathematics difficulty. Her dissertation won awards from the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children and the Council for Learning Disabilities. Sarah also won the Early Career Publication Award from the Division for Research of the Council for Exceptional Children. Sarah’s primary research interest is related to developing and testing interventions for students with mathematics difficulty. Sarah is currently Principal Investigator of a Goal 3 efficacy grant funded by the Institute of Education Sciences about word-problem intervention combined with instruction on mathematics symbols. Sarah is also a Spencer/National Academy of Education postdoctoral fellow and a faculty fellow of the Greater Texas Foundation.
Dr. Powell has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Chan Roath
Co-Investigator (Cambodia) Director of the Department of Scientific Research, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Royal Government of Cambodia President of the Cambodian Mathematical Society (CMS) Head of the Department of Mathematics, Khemarak University [email protected] |
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In addition to his Directorship at the Department of Scientific Research of the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Dr. Roath has also been serving as President of the Cambodian Mathematical Society (CMS) since 2006, and as Head of Department of Mathematics at Khemarak University since 2004.
He completed his degree in Mathematics at Daghestan State University (Russia), and can communicate in Russian, French, English and Khmer (mother- tongue).
Dr. Roath has joined the project since February 2016.
He completed his degree in Mathematics at Daghestan State University (Russia), and can communicate in Russian, French, English and Khmer (mother- tongue).
Dr. Roath has joined the project since February 2016.
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Mr. End Salani
Co-Investigator (Botswana) Lecturer in Primary Mathematics Education Faculty of Education, University of Botswana [email protected] |
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Mr. Salani’s research interests include the use of learning technologies in the mathematics classroom instructional practices at both primary and secondary school levels of education; motivational strategies in mathematics instruction; and teachers’ technology beliefs in mathematics instruction.
In addition to his lectureship in Primary Mathematics Education at the University of Botswana, Mr. Salani is currently serving as Treasurer of the Botswana Executive Committee of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (SAARMSTE). He is also a member of the Botswana Educational Research Association and a member of the Mathematical Association of Botswana. Mr. Salani is currently a Principal Investigator on a project intended to establish the extent of technology infusion in junior secondary school mathematics, science and social studies subjects in Gaborone schools. The project is under the auspices of the University of Botswana Office of Research and Development Grants.
He is currently pursuing his PhD in Education (Mathematics Education) at the University of Botswana.
Mr. Salani has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Angelica Fontoura Garcia Silva
Co-Investigator (Brazil) Lecturer in Mathematics Education Universidade Bandeirante de São Paulo [email protected] |
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Dr. Silva received her PhD in Mathematics Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) and her MA in Education (Political History and Society) with a Major in Mathematical Licensure, also from the PUC-SP. She completed her post-doctoral study at the Escola Superior de Educação, under the supervision of Professor Maria de Lurdes Serrazina, in 2006.
Dr. Silva has worked with the Curricular and Evaluation Team of the State of São Paulo's Department of Education. As a researcher, she has worked in the Postgraduate Studies of Mathematics Education programme at the Anhanguera University of São Paulo - UNIAN since 2007. Her research activities are related to teacher development, curriculum and evaluation. She also develops studies with teachers of the early years of elementary school, including issues of children literature and mathematics.
Dr. Silva has joined the project since March 2016.
Dr. Silva has worked with the Curricular and Evaluation Team of the State of São Paulo's Department of Education. As a researcher, she has worked in the Postgraduate Studies of Mathematics Education programme at the Anhanguera University of São Paulo - UNIAN since 2007. Her research activities are related to teacher development, curriculum and evaluation. She also develops studies with teachers of the early years of elementary school, including issues of children literature and mathematics.
Dr. Silva has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Vladimíra Spilková
Co-Investigator (Czech Republic) Lecturer Faculty of Education, Charles University [email protected] |
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Dr. Spilková has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Yi-Wen Su
Co-Investigator (Taiwan) Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education Department of Mathematics, University of Taipei [email protected] |
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Dr. Su's research interests include integrating history of mathematics into teaching and reading comprehension in mathematics, as well as teachers’ professional development. Her current research deals with students’ reading comprehension of geometric construction, the development of math reading materials and history of mathematics materials.
Dr. Su also devotes to planning and implementing teacher education courses for pre-service elementary teachers and professional programs for in-service mathematics teachers.
Dr. Su has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Mukunthan Thevarasa
Co-Investigator (Sri Lanka) Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Primary Education Faculty of Education, The Open University of Sri Lanka [email protected] |
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In addition to his role as Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Primary Education at The Open University of Sri Lanka, Dr. Mukunthan is also working as a creative writer in Tamil language. He has published a collection of short stories in 2012. This book awarded at the State Literature award. The same book got translated into Sinhala language by the Ministry of the Cultural Affairs in 2014.
His research interests include teaching mathematics in the primary and pre-school level; Piaget’s mathematical concepts children’s errors on word problems in mathematics and language influences in mathematics.
Prior to joining the The Open University of Sri Lanka, Dr. Mukunthan worked at the National Institute of Education, Sri Lanka. He involved the curriculum development in primary mathematics and the training for in-service advisors and teachers in the Island. He involved in many research works related to primary mathematics.
Dr. Mukunthan has joined the project since February 2016.
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Dr. Judy van Heerden
Co-Investigator (South Africa) Lecturer in Early Childhood Education Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Pretoria [email protected] |
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Dr. Judy van Heerden is a lecturer and programme coordinator in the Department of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria. She is involved in various early childhood and foundation phase modules in the undergraduate and post graduate programmes. She is a laureate innovation education award winner of the University of Pretoria for the development of curriculum and learning materials. Judy has presented several papers at national and international conferences. She is the author of three books and co-author of chapters in scholarly books. Her research interests include amongst others early childhood development studies, quality in early learning centres, art, science, mathematics and technology in the early years, outdoor play and learning, using stories as a learning tool, the multiple intelligences and different learning approaches in early childhood education.
Dr. van Heerden has joined the project since July 2016.
Dr. van Heerden has joined the project since July 2016.
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Dr. Fetisova Nelya Veniaminovna
Co-Investigator (Russia) Associate Professor in Primary Education Primary Education Department, Tomsk State Pedagogical University [email protected] |
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Dr. Fetisova Nelya Veniaminovna is an associate professor in the Primary Education Department at Tomsk State Pedagogical University (TSPU), a teacher of Mathematics and Methodology, and a Head of students-teacher practice. In 2010, she defended a PhD viva voca at TSPU on the subject of ‘Training of primary school teachers to the development of students’ general logical skills in mathematics’.
Dr. Fetisova Nelya Veniaminovna had worked as a teacher of Physics at school № 14, 35 in Tomsk, as a teacher of Mathematics and Methodology at Tomsk Teacher Training College. In 1982, she graduated from TSPU with the ‘Teacher of Physics and Mathematics’ specialism.
Her areas of research interests include primary mathematics, methodical training of teachers, and pedagogical practice.
Dr. Fetisova Nelya Veniaminovna has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Der-Ching Yang
Co-Investigator (Taiwan) Professor in Mathematics Education Graduate Institute of Mathematics Education, National Chiayi University [email protected] |
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Dr. Yang is from Taiwan. His research interests include the teaching, learning, and assessment of number sense, estimation, and mental computation from the early year level to the middle grade level; mathematics curriculum and textbooks related studies; international perspectives on mathematics teaching and learning; the use of technology to develop children's conceptual understanding of mathematics and number sense; remedial instructions of mathematics for disadvantaged students; pre-service teachers and primary teachers' number sense, its teaching and learning, among others.
He completed his PhD at the University of Missouri-Columbia in Mathematics Education in 1995, and is currently teaching at the Graduate Institute of Mathematics and Science Education, National Chiayi University in Taiwan.
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology recognises Dr. Yang's research excellence by awarding him the 2015 Outstanding Research Awards in Taiwan.
Dr. Yang has joined the project since February 2016.
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Professor Ping Yu
Co-Investigator (Mainland China) Professor and Director Institute of Curriculum, Nanjing Normal University [email protected] |
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Professor Ping Yu is the director of the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction at Nanjing Normal University, China and the vice president of the Chinese Research Association of Mathematics Education. His research interest covers educational psychology of mathematics, mathematics curriculum and instruction, and teacher education. He has published 5 books and over 170 journal papers.
Professor Yu has joined the project since July 2016.
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Mr. Miikka Wikholm
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Mr. Miikka Wikholm is currently working as a Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Turku's Department of Teacher Education (Rauma unit), while also completing his doctoral research investigating the use of technology to enhance mathematics learning. Mr. Wikholm has an MA in Education and has qualifications to teach multidisciplinary subjects in primary school (Class Teacher) and is specialized in teaching mathematics having a qualification of subject teacher in mathematics.
Mr. Wikholm has joined the project since July 2014.
Mr. Wikholm has joined the project since July 2014.
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Dr. Joanna Żądło
Co-Investigator (Poland) Lecturer in Primary Matematics Education Faculty of Pedagogy, Pedagogical University of Cracow [email protected] |
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Dr. Żądło works as Adiunkt in the Institute of Pre-school and School Education at the Pedagogical University of Cracow. Her research interests focus on early childhood education with special emphasis on mathematics education, difficulties and failures of school pupils in grade 1-3 and functioning at school kids with special educational needs .
Dr. Żądło has joined the project since March 2016.
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Dr. Qiao-ping Zhang
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Dr. Zhang’s research interests include, but not limited to, affect in mathematics education, beliefs about mathematics, mathematics teacher’s knowledge and mathematics curriculum reform. He has extensively published his research findings in international peer-reviewed journals and presented them at international conferences over the past seven years.
Dr. Zhang has joined the project since October 2014.
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Dr. Julianna Zsoldos-Marchis
Co-Investigator (Romania) Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Computer Science Education Department of Pedagogy and Applied Didactics, Babes-Bolyai University [email protected] |
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Dr. Zsoldos-Marchis research interest is in Mathematics Education and Computer Assisted Learning. In Mathematics Education the main investigated topics are related with self-regulated learning of Mathematics and mathematical problem solving. She is teaching Mathematics, Mathematics Education and Computer Assisted Learning for pre-service preschool and primary school teachers studying in Hungarian language. Her main interest is to make these lessons very interactive, to increase students' motivation for learning Mathematics and develop their problem solving, as their background in Mathematics is very varying.
Dr. Zsoldos-Marchis has joined the project since February 2016.
