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UREM

Research Professors

Professeurs de recherches

Richard Barwell

Office:  LMX 443

Telephone:  (613) 562-5800 Ext. 6797

Email:  richard.barwell@uottawa.ca

Website:  www.uottawa.ca/academic/education/profs/barwell.html

Research interests:  Mathematics education, classroom discourse, and word problems;Multilingualism, Applied linguistics, Social and Cultural issues in mathematics education; ESL education; Discourse Analysis, Discursive Psychology; Linguistic Ethnography in Education; and Ethics in educational research.

Barbara Graves

Office:  LMX 478

Telephone:  (613) 562-5800 Ext. 2225

Email:  bgraves@uottawa.ca

Website:  www.uottawa.ca/academic/education/profs/graves.html

Research interests:  Research into learning informed by sociocultural theory, embodied cognition, and complexity science; Mathematical reasoning in problem-solving; Mathematics teaching and learning; Classroom discourse processes.

Jérôme Proulx

Office:  LMX 467

Telephone:  (613) 562-5800 Ext. 4659

Email:  Jerome.Proulx@uottawa.ca

Website:  www.uottawa.ca/academic/education/profs/Proulx.html

Research interests:  Mathematics teacher education and mathematics teachers' knowledge; School mathematics content; Mathematics teaching and mathematical understanding; Teachers' mathematical explanations; Theories of learning.

Christine Suurtamm

Christine Suurtamm

Office:  LMX 463

Telephone:  (613) 562-5800 Ext. 4144

Email:  suurtamm@uottawa.ca

Website:  www.uottawa.ca/academic/education/profs/suurtamm.html

Research interests:  Mathematics Teaching and Learning; Classroom Assessment; Analysis of Teaching; Teacher Education and Professional Development; Curriculum Analysis.

Georges Touma

Georges Touma

Office:  LMX 440

Telephone:  (613) 562-5800 Ext. 4126

Email:  Georges.Touma@uottawa.ca

Website:  www.uottawa.ca/academic/education/profs/touma.html

Research interests:  Différents aspects de la didactique des mathématiques au secondaire et au collège. Modélisation algébrique en sciences expérimentales. Conception et développement des Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain (EIAH) intégrant les mathématiques et les sciences. Rôle de l'Expérimentation Assistée par Ordinateur (ExAO) dans l'enseignement des mathématiques. Difficultés d'apprentissage en mathématiques. Enseignement et apprentissage des mathématiques en ligne.

Nancy Vézina

Nancy Vézina

Office:  LMX 373 (PI Lab)

Telephone:  (613) 562-5800 Ext. 2918

Email:  nancyv@uottawa.ca

Website:  www.uottawa.ca/academic/education/profs/vezina.html

Research interests:  Différents aspects découlant de la didactique des mathématiques á l'élémentaire. Impact des approches pédagogiques favorisant un apprentissage des mathématiques en contexte (mathématiques et environnement de l'enfant, mathématiques et architecture, mathématiques et littérature jeunesse, mathématiques et arts, mathématiques et technologie, etc.). Rôle de la communauté (famille, école, intervenants communautaires, etc.) dans le développement de la numératie chez le jeune enfant dans une perspective de littératies multiples. Difficultés d'apprentissage en mathématiques. Formation initiale et continue des pédagogues de l'élémentaire en mathématiques.

Research Assistants

Assistants de recherches

Ann Arden

Ann Arden

Position:  M.A. Student (Teaching, Learning & Evaluation); Secondary Mathematics Teacher in OCDSB

Email:  aevan094@uottawa.ca

Research interests:  Classroom assessment in mathematics & professional development

Research activities:  Research assistant in the Curriculum Implementation in Intermediate Mathematics (CIIM) project with Dr. Suurtamm & Dr. Graves; Research assistant in the School Mathematics Content Development project with Dr. Proulx

Arlene Corrigan

Arlene Corrigan

Position:  Doctoral Student, Mathematics Education

Email:  acorrigan@rccdsb.edu.on.ca

Research interests:  Mathematics education, Classroom discourse, Secondary school mathematics

Research activities:  Thinking about Thinking in Mathematics Class

Jennifer Hall

Jennifer Hall

Position:  Masters student, Teaching, Learning & Evaluation

Email:  jhall061@uottawa.ca

Research interests:  Gender issues at the post-secondary level and in high school gifted programs, statistics education at the elementary and secondary level

Research activities:  Research Assistant in the Curriculum Implementation in Intermediate Mathematics (CIIM) project

Tom Hillman

Tom Hillman

Position:  Doctoral student, Teaching, Learning & Evaluation

Email:  thill008@uottawa.ca

Research interests:  The design of objects with pedagogical purpose, manipulatives in mathematics classrooms. Sociocultural Theory, Complexity Theory, Cultural Historical Activity Theory, Social Semiotics.

Research activities:  I have chosen to investigate another type of object designed with pedagogical purpose, manipulatives in mathematics classrooms.

Adrian Jones

Adrian Jones

Position:  Masters student, Teaching, Learning & Evaluation

Email:  adrian@woodsgood.ca

Websites:  woodsgood.ca lilipad.ca

Research interests:  The relationship between teachers' beliefs in the value and utility of mathematical manipulatives and the way in which they are used in the classroom. The use of complexity theory to describe mathematical communities. Supervisor: Christine Suurtamm.

Research activities:  Research Assistant in the Curriculum Implementation in Intermediate Mathematics (CIIM) project. Webmaster for the Mathematics Education Research Unit (MERU)/ Unité de Recherche Éducationelle en Mathematique (UREM) website.

Martha Koch

Martha Koch

Position:  Doctoral student, Measurement & Evaluation

Email:  mkoch@uottawa.ca

Research interests:  Issues in classroom and large-scale assessment, validity theory, sociocultural and hermeneutic approaches in educational measurement and research.