Student & Alumni Experience
Mathematics Education PhD students join our community from a variety of backgrounds. The experiences they bring and share help to make the PhD program unique. Learn more about this community through their stories and journeys as they engage with each other and the world.
Meet some Mathematics Education PhD students and explore their theses.
Bakos, Sandy (PhD, 2023), The teacher–tool–mathematics ensemble: Before, during and after implementing TouchTimes
Videnovic, Milica (PhD, 2021), Mathematics professors' views on written and oral assessment in mathematics
Larsen, Judy (PhD, 2020)
Rouleau, Annette (PhD, 2020), Mathematics teacher tension: Arising in, and through, their attempt to change practice.
Rodney, Sheree (PhD, 2022), Embodied curiosity in the mathematics classroom through the affordance of the geometer's sketchpad
Liu, Minnie (PhD, 2019), Students’ mathematical modelling behaviors: Strategies and competencies
Alsalim, Lyla (PhD, 2018), Using patterns-of-participation approach to understand high school mathematics teachers' classroom practice in Saudi Arabia
Kaur, Harpreet (PhD, 2017), Young children’s understanding of angles in a dynamic geometry environment
Sedaghatjou, Mina (PhD, 2017), Mathematical Tool Fluency: Learning Mathematics via Touch-based Technology
Truman, Jeffrey (PhD, 2017), Mathematical reasoning among adults on the autism spectrum: Case studies with mathematically experienced participants
Jayakody, Gaya (PhD, 2016), University first year students’ discourse on continuous functions: A commoginitive interpretation
Ng, Oi-Lam (PhD, 2016), Language, gestures and touchscreen dragging in school calculus: Bilinguals' linguistic and non-linguistic communication
Wells, Kevin (PhD, 2015), A conversation-gesture approach to recognizing mathematical understanding in group problem solving (teaching from the sidelines)
Chavoshi, Simin (PhD, 2015), Objective and subjective probability: Undergraduate student descriptions, examples, and arguments
Menz, Petra (PhD, 2015), Unfolding of Diagramming and Gesturing between Mathematics Graduate Student and Supervisor during Research Meetings
Udevi-Aruevoru, Ike (PhD, 2015), The relationship between variables that represent motivation and achievement in post-secondary mathematics
Venturini, Marta (PhD, 2015), How teachers think about the role of digital technologies in student assessment in mathematics
Chorney, Sean (PhD, 2014), From Agency to Narrative: Tools in Mathematical Learning
Subedi, Krishna (PhD, 2014), Dealing With Abstraction: Reducing Abstraction in Teaching (RAiT)
Ekol, George (PhD, 2014), Examining Constructs of Statistical Variability Using Mobile Data Points
Shipulina, Olga (PhD, 2013), Connecting Calculus with Reality through a Virtual Environment
Tabaghi, Shiva Gol (PhD, 2012), Using Dynamic Geometry to Explore Linear Algebra Concepts: the Emergence of Mobile, Visual Thinking
Susan Oesterle, Susan (PhD, 2011), Diverse Perspectives on Teaching Math for Teachers: Living the Tensions
Recipient of the Canadian Association for Teacher Education Award for her thesis.
Babb, Armando Preciado (PhD, 2011), Conversations held and roles played during mathematics teachers’ collaborative design: Two dimensions of interaction
Halmaghi, Elena (PhD, 2011), Undergraduate students’ conceptions of inequalities
Handscomb, Kerry (PhD, 2010), On the Psychological and Physiological Foundations of Structure in Geometry: A Study in Educational Neuroscience
Allan, Darien (PhD, 2009 2017), Student actions as a window into goals and motives in the secondary mathematics classroom
Chernoff, Egan (PhD, 2009), Subjective Probabilities Derived from the Perceived Randomness of Sequences of Outcomes
Mamolo, Ami (PhD, 2009), Glimpses of Infinity: Intuitions, Paradoxes, and Cognitive Leaps
Kavousian, Shabnam (PhD, 2008), Enquiries into Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of Combinatorial Structures
Businskas, Aldona (PhD, 2008), Conversations about Connections: How Secondary Mathematics Teachers Conceptualize and Contend with Mathematical Connections
Berezovski, Tanya (PhD, 2007), Exploring Pre-Service Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge Through New Research Designed Methodology
Neel, Kanwal (PhD, 2007), Numeracy in Haida Gwaii, BC: Connecting Community, Pedagogy, and Epistemology
Gholamazad, Soheila (PhD, 2006), Pre-service Elementary School Teachers’ Experiences with Interpreting and Creating Proofs
Bogomolny, Marianna (PhD, 2006), The Role of Example-Generation Tasks in Students’ Understanding of Linear Algebra
Lucas, Calin (PhD, 2005), Composition of Functions and Inverse Function of a Function: Main Ideas, as Perceived by Teachers and Preservice Teachers
Percival, Irene (PhD, 2004), The Use of Cultural Perspectives in the Elementary School Mathematics Classroom
Stewart, Christine (PhD, 2003), Procedural Change in Mathematics: Tales of Adoption and Resistance