Rina Zazkis

Keywords

mathematics education; undergraduate mathematics education; mathematics teacher education 

Doctoral Supervision

• Tiong, Pauline (PhD, 2024), Teacher noticing and use of language as a resource in the teaching and learning of mathematics 
• Riley, Sam (PhD, 2023), An investigation into historic and contemporary presentations of logarithms in textbooks: Can historic presentations enhance the contemporary presentations of logarithms?
• Valadkhani, Arezou (PhD, 2022), Conditional statements in mathematics and beyond: Syntax, semantics, and context 
• Glen, Leslie (PhD, 2019), Community college remedial algebra: The search for an alternative
• Jamshid Nejad, Masomeh (PhD, 2017), Undergraduate students' understanding of transformations of sinusoidal functions (Co-supervisor) 
• Truman, Julia Victoria (PhD, 2017), Mathematical reasoning among adults on the autism spectrum: Case studies with mathematically experienced participants 
• Chavoshi Jolfaee, Simin Sadat (PhD, 2015), Objective and subjective probability: Undergraduate students’ descriptions, examples, and arguments 
• Jayakody, Gaya Nayomi (PhD, 2015), University first year students’ discourse on continuous functions: A commoginitive interpretation 
• Wijeratne, Chanakya Janak (PhD, 2015), Infinity, Paradoxes and Contexts
• Subedi, Krishna Prasad (PhD, 2014), Dealing With Abstraction: Reducing Abstraction in Teaching (RAiT)
• Chernoff, Egan J. (PhD, 2009), Subjective probabilities derived from the perceived randomness of sequences of outcomes 
• Mamolo, Ami Maria (PhD, 2009), Glimpses of infinity: intuitions, paradoxes, and cognitive leaps
• Businskas, Aldona Monika (PhD, 2008), Conversations about connections: how secondary mathematics teachers conceptualize and contend with mathematical connections
• Kavousian, Shabnam (PhD, 2008), Enquiries into undergraduate students' understanding of combinatorial structures 
• Berezovski, Tetyana (PhD, 2007), Exposing pre-service secondary mathematics teachers’ knowledge through new research design methodology 
• Bogomolny, Marianna (PhD, 2006), The role of example-generation tasks in students' understanding of linear algebra 
• Gholamazad, Soheila (PhD, 2006), Pre-service elementary school teachers' experiences with interpreting and creating proofs
• Lucus, Calin Andrian (PhD, 2005), Composition of functions and inverse function of a function: Main ideas, as perceived by teachers and preservice teachers 
• Liljedahl, Peter (PhD, 2004), The Aha! experience : mathematical contexts, pedagogical implications 
• Stewart, Christine D. E (PhD, 2003), Procedural change in mathematics : tales of adoption and resistance
• Raychaudhury, Debasree (PhD, 2001), The Tension and the Balance between One Mathematical Concept and Student Constructions of it: Solution to a Differential Equation (Co-supervisor)
• Campbell, Stephen (PhD, 1998), Preservice Teachers' Understanding of Elementary Number Theory: Qualitative Constructivist Research Situated Within a Kantian Framework

Master's Supervision

• Gadowsky, Karen (MSc, 2001), A Window on Learning by Inquiry with Technology: Exploring Transformations of Functions
• Stenner, Rebekaah (MSc, 2019), Teacher noticing of student mathematics: Lesson play experience (Co-supervisor)
• Khalili, Pouyan (MSc, 2016), Mathematical needs in the physics classroom
• Hiebet, Erica Jemm Aileen (MSc, 2013), Investigating Students' Understanding of Square Numbers and Square Roots
• Berg, Deanna Maria (MA, 2012), Algebraic thinking in the elementary classroom
• Kraemer, Karl (MSc, 2011), Algebraic difficulties as an obstacle for high school calculus
• Berezovski, Tetyana (MSc, 2004), An inquiry into high school students' understanding of logarithms
• Sirotic, Natasa (MSc, 2004), Prospective secondary mathematics teachers' understanding of irrationality
• Levy, Bat-Sheva (MSc, 1999), Fuzzy Logic: A Model to Explain Students' Mathematical Decision Making
• Rogers, Cindy (MA, 1999), Teaching Mathematics: Obstacles and Influences Affecting the Practices of Beginning Teachers
• Moor, Jane (MSc, 1998), The Virtual Classroom: An Innovative Approach to Learning Mathematics
• Woodward, Tige (MA, 1998), An Exploration of Grade 8 Students' Fraction Sense
• Langille, Michael (MSc, 1996), Studying students' sense making of fractal geometry
• Reed, Karen (MSc, 1996), Grade 11 students' understanding of circle geometry in a computer environment 
• Devito, Gordon (MEd, 1993), Exploring Procedures in PASCAL Programming