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Nathalie Sinclair
Acting Dean
Distinguished SFU Professor
Dr. Nathalie Sinclair's primary research interests stem from her philosophical and historical work in mathematics. She has co-developed, with Elizabeth de Freitas, a philosophy for mathematics education called Inclusive Materialism (see Mathematics and the Body: Material Entanglements in the Classroom).
Her work has focused on the aesthetics of mathematics thinking and learning, on the use of gestures and diagrams in mathematical activity, and the role of digital technology in disrupting the sensory politics of mathematics (including TouchCounts and TouchTimes, created as part of the Canada Research Chair in Tangible Mathematics Learning, software design and implementation by Nicholas Jackiw).
She has also worked with Dr Petra Mikulan on the role of time in shaping current educational practices (see Time and Education: Time Pedagogies against Oppression and Unschooled Futures: Pluriversal Speculations).
Her most recent project explores the colonising process of the mathematics curriculum, with a particular focus on the baroque mathematics of 17th century New Spain.
school Supervision Status: Not Accepting New Students
Research
Keywords
mathematics education; use of digital technology in mathematics learning; embodied cognition; post-human philosophies
Supervisory Experience
Doctoral Supervision
- Guyevskey, Victoria (PhD, 2025), Making mathematical play visible through personal aesthetics in a digitized upper elementary mathematics classroom
- Lee, Peter (PhD, 2023), How math makes cents: The marketization of mathematics education discourse
- Bakos, Cassandra (PhD, 2022), The teacher–tool–mathematics ensemble: Before, during and after implementing TouchTimes
Güneş, Canan (PhD, 2022), A Tri-ple Analysis of thinking multiplicatively around/with TouchTimes - Hare, Andrew (PhD, 2022), Mathematics lecturing: Gestural practices in contexts
- Stenner, Rebekaah (PhD, 2022), A text analysis of British Columbia's redesigned mathematics curriculum: From verbs to voice to values
- Gillings Rodney, Sheree (PhD, 2021), Embodied curiosity in the mathematics classroom through the affordance of the geometer's sketchpad
- Kaur, Harpreet (PhD, 2017), Young children’s understanding of angles in a dynamic geometry environment
- Mikulan, Petra (PhD, 2017), Pedagogy Without Bodies
- Sedaghatjou, Mina (PhD, 2017), Mathematical Tool Fluency: Learning Mathematics via Touch-based Technology (Co-supervisor)
- Ng, Oi-Lam (PhD, 2016), Language, gestures and touchscreen dragging in school calculus: Bilinguals' linguistic and non-linguistic communication
- Menz, Petra Margarete (PhD, 2015), Unfolding of Diagramming and Gesturing between Mathematics Graduate Student and Supervisor during Research Meetings (Co-supervisor)
- Venturini, Marta (PhD, 2015), How teachers think about the role of digital technologies in student assessment in mathematics
- Chorney, Sean Brendan (PhD, 2014), From Agency to Narrative: Tools in Mathematical Learning
- Roodal Persad, Veda (PhD, 2014), Mathematics, Mathematicians, and Desire
- Wells, Kevin John (PhD, 2014), A Conversation-Gesture Approach to Recognising Mathematical Understanding in Group Problem Solving (Teaching from the Sidelines)
- Ekol, George Larry (PhD, 2013), Examining Constructs of Statistical Variability Using Mobile Data Points
- Dietiker, Leslie C. (PhD, 2012), The mathematics textbook as a story : a novel approach to the interrogation of mathematics curriculum (Co-supervisor)
- Gol Tabaghi, Shiva (PhD, 2012), Using dynamic geometry to explore linear algebra concepts: the emergence of mobile, visual thinking
Master's Supervision
- Huang, Yuan-Ting Erica (MSc Ed, 2020), Incorporating computational thinking and coding in BC secondary mathematics classrooms
- Eaton, Brian Keith (MSc, 2011), How do interactive white boards affect participation in the mathematics classroom?
- Law, Jennifer (MSc, 2011), Using subordination to teach and learn mathematics
Upcoming Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.