Anna Sierpinska
Updated February 25, 2010
Concordia University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
1455 de Maisonneuve blvd. West
Montreal, Quebec
H3G 1M8 Canada
e-mail: sierpins@mathstat.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~sierp/

 
 
 
 
 
 
MY PAPERS
Sierpinska, A.: 2006, 'Sources of students' frustration in bridging mathematics courses', in Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Prague, Czech Republic, July 16-21, 2006, Vol. 5, pp. 121-128.
 
1. The Questionnaire used in the research on frustration and frequencies of responses
2. Responses to item 76. Complete the sentence, 'Math is...'
3. Supporting documentation for results about sources of frustration
List of Publications
Updated 30 August 2008
RECENT RESEARCH
2003-06 Students' frustration in prerequisite mathematics courses
 
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION

Sierpinska, A., Bobos, G., Knipping, C.: 2007, Presentation and partial results of a study of university students' frustration in pre-university level, prerequisite mathematics courses: Emotions, positions and achievement. Web-published paper: http://www.asjdomain.ca/emotions.html

NOTE: A revised version of the above paper has been published (in English, with executive summary in Polish) in
ROCZNIKI POLSKIEGO TOWARZYSTWA MATEMATYCZNEGO. SERIA V: DIDACTICA MATHEMATICAE 30 (2007), pp. 47-76
under the title:
"A Study of University Students' Frustration in Pre-University Level, Prerequisite Mathematics Courses: Emotions, Positions and Perception of Achievement".
  4. Description of the institutional perspective in mathematics education research, including an overview of literature.
Old web page:
 
Sierpinska, A.: 2007, ‘I need the teacher to tell me if I am right or wrong’, Proceedings of the 31st  Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Seoul, South Korea, July 8-13, 2007, Vol. 1, pp. 45-64.
Sierpinska, A., Bobos, G. & Knipping, Ch. (2008), ‘Sources of students’ frustration in pre-university level, prerequisite mathematics courses’, Instructional Science 36, 289-320.
COURSE MATERIALS
Lectures on the Theory of Didactic Situations in Mathematics
Published papers: see List of Publications: Sierpinska, 2006; 2007; Sierpinska, Bobos & Knipping, 2007; 2008
2006-10 Experimenting with approaches
            to teaching inequalities with absolute value
Some preliminary results have been mentioned in  Sierpinska, 2007 (PME), see List of Publications

and in a ppt presentation prepared for the pedagogical day at Vanier College, Montreal, November 11, 2008:

"Algebra: the Calculus student's Achilles' heel":  PowerPoint version; PDF version

NOTE: The above presentation was done in collaboration with Dr. Hong Yue, and the ppt refers to her part, which is available from here.
Sierpinska, A., Nnadozie, A. & Oktac, A. 2002. A study of relationships between theoretical thinking and high achievement in Linear Algebra. Concordia University. Unpublished Manuscript.
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DIDACTEA: Perspectives on research in mathematics education. English version of
Sierpinska, A. 2002. Perspectives sur les recherches en didactique des mathématiques. Zentralblatt fuer Didaktik der Mathematik 34(4) 164-174.
TALKS
Perspektywa instytucjonalna w dydaktyce matematyki
Krakow, 25 maja 2009
(wersja poprawiona)
 
Recent Research
My papers
Talks
Course materials - Theory  of Didactic Situations
Links to my PhD students' theses
 
 
 
LINKS to my students' PhD theses
September 2009   Klara Kelecsenyi. Popularization of mathematics as intercultural communication - An exploratory study
April 2009  Nadia Hardy. Students' models of the knowledge to be learned about limits in college level Calculus courses. The influence of routine tasks and the role played by institutional norms.
 
"If Sisyphus were a scholar, his field would be education"
(Labaree, D. (2000). Living with a lesser form of knowledge. In C. Day et al. (eds), The life and work of teachers. International perspectives in changing times (pp. 55-75). London and New York: Falmer Press.)