MathsThroughStories.org is an international research-based initiative which sets out to explore various aspects of integrating story picture books 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.
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Dr. Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Reading. 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 founded the MathsThroughStories.org initiative back in 2015, and officially launched its website in March 2017.
In addition to his Associate Professorship, Dr. Trakulphadetkrai also currently serves as the Director of Research Communications and the Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research Studies (PhD) at the University's Institute of Education. He also serves as 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) and the UK Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) and 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.
In addition to his Associate Professorship, Dr. Trakulphadetkrai also currently serves as the Director of Research Communications and the Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research Studies (PhD) at the University's Institute of Education. He also serves as 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) and the UK Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) and 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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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. 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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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) Associate Professor in Mathematics Education Institute of Education, Dublin City University [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. 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. 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.
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.
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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. 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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Sue Miller
Co-Investigator (Ireland) Education Librarian Institute of Education, Dublin City University [email protected] |
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Sue Miller is an Education Librarian at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University, 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.
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. Tracey Muir
Co-Investigator (Australia) Associate Professor in Mathematics Education School of Education, CALE, University of Tasmania [email protected] |
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Associate Professor Tracey Muir is a lecturer in primary and early childhood mathematics education at the University of Tasmania. Her research interests include effective teaching for numeracy, problem solving in mathematics, student engagement in mathematics, teachers’ use of ICT in the teaching of mathematics, flipping the mathematics classroom and mathematical practices that promote reasoning and personalised learning. She is a co-author of Primary Mathematics: Integrating Theory with Practice, Engaging with Mathematics Through Picture Books and Developing Early Maths Through Story; she has also recently published a children’s picture book, Heads or Tails. Dr. Muir has presented seminars and workshops at state, national and international conferences and is particularly passionate about working with teachers to engage their students in mathematics and to enhance their classroom numeracy practices.
Dr. Muir has joined the project since September 2016.
Dr. Muir has joined the project since September 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. Mark Prendergast
Co-Investigator (Ireland) Senior Lecturer in Education School of Education, University College Cork [email protected] |
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Dr. Prendergast is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the School of Education, University College Cork. Previously, he was an assistant professor in mathematics education at Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin. He is 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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Mr. Iwan Andi Jonri Sianturi
Co-Investigator (Taiwan) PhD student in Mathematics Education Curriculum and Instruction, Indiana University (Bloomington, USA) [email protected] |
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Mr. Iwan Sianturi’s research interests focus on students’ number sense, curriculum and textbook, pre-service teachers and teacher beliefs, productive mathematical meanings, and integrating technology and children’s literature into mathematics teaching and learning. He has taught both mathematics and mathematics education to students in elementary and secondary schools and undergraduates. He conducted a robust inquiry to reveal some crucial insights that possibly explain the difference of students’ mathematics performance in international mathematics tests (i.e., PISA and TIMSS) by comparing and analyzing mathematics curricula and textbooks used in Finland, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.
He is currently pursuing his PhD at Indiana University's School of Education (Bloomington, USA).
Mr. Iwan Sianturi has joined the project (Taiwan team) since June 2018.
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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. 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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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. 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.
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.
