Anna Sierpińska
Polish-Canadian mathematics educator
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Anna Sierpińska (1947 – October 19, 2023)[1][2] was a Polish-Canadian scholar of mathematics education, known for her investigations of understanding and epistemology in mathematics education. She was a professor emerita of mathematics and statistics at Concordia University.[3]
Education and career
Sierpińska was born in Wrocław in 1947, and lived internationally with her family as a child.[2] She earned a master's degree in 1970 from the University of Warsaw, specializing in commutative algebra. She completed her Ph.D. in mathematics education in 1984 at the Higher School of Pedagogy, Cracow.[4]
She was editor-in-chief of Educational Studies in Mathematics from 2001 to 2005.[5]
Recognition
In 2006, Luleå University of Technology in Sweden gave Sierpińska an honorary doctorate.[4]
Selected publications
Monograph
- Sierpinska, Anna (1994), Understanding in Mathematics, The Falmer Press, doi:10.4324/9780203454183, ISBN 978-0-203-45418-3[6]
Edited volumes
- Sierpinska, Anna; Kilpatrick, Jeremy, eds. (1998), Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity, New ICMI Study Series, vol. 4, Springer Netherlands, doi:10.1007/978-94-011-5470-3, ISBN 978-94-011-5470-3[7]
- Steinbring, Heinz; Bussi, Maria G. Bartolini; Sierpinska, Anna, eds. (1998), Language and Communication in the Mathematics Classroom, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics[8]
Articles
- Sierpińska, Anna (November 1987), "Humanities students and epistemological obstacles related to limits", Educational Studies in Mathematics, 18 (4): 371–397, doi:10.1007/bf00240986, S2CID 144880659
- Sierpinska, Anna (November 1990), "Some remarks on understanding in mathematics", For the Learning of Mathematics, 10 (3): 24–36, 41, JSTOR 40247990
- Sierpinska, Anna; Lerman, Stephen (1997), "Epistemologies of mathematics and of mathematics education", in Bishop, Alan J.; Clements, Ken; Keitel, Christine; Kilpatrick, Jeremy; Laborde, Colette (eds.), International Handbook of Mathematics Education, Springer Netherlands, pp. 827–876, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1465-0_23[9]
- Sierpinska, Anna (2000), "On some aspects of students' thinking in linear algebra", in Dorier, Jean-Luc (ed.), On the Teaching of Linear Algebra, Mathematics Education Library, vol. 23, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 209–246, doi:10.1007/0-306-47224-4_8, ISBN 978-0-306-47224-4
- Dorier, Jean-Luc; Sierpinska, Anna (2002), "Research into the teaching and learning of linear algebra", in Holton, Derek; Artigue, Michèle; Kirchgräber, Urs; Hillel, Joel; Niss, Mogens; Schoenfeld, Alan (eds.), The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at University Level, New ICMI Study Series, vol. 7, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 255–273, doi:10.1007/0-306-47231-7_24, ISBN 0-7923-7191-7