Learning Opportunities

, originally started out as a high school mathematics teacher, but has spent the last 10 years studying and working with students in the elementary grades. She is currently a master’s candidate in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include visualization and its role in cultivating the growth of mathematical understanding. This area of study contributes to a secondary area of interest – students with learning challenges. She is also a research assistant in a SSHRC- funded project on mathematics experiences, images and identities (PI: Dr. Jo Towers), as well as in a project on remediation for students with learning disabilities in spatial cognition (PI: Dr. Michelle Drefs).