Anna Sierpińska
{{Short description|Polish-Canadian mathematics educator}}
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Anna Sierpińska (1947 – October 19, 2023){{r|born|obit}} 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.{{r|explore}}
Education and career
Sierpińska was born in Wrocław in 1947, and lived internationally with her family as a child.{{r|obit}} 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.{{r|profile}}
She was editor-in-chief of Educational Studies in Mathematics from 2001 to 2005.{{r|esm}}
Recognition
In 2006, Luleå University of Technology in Sweden gave Sierpińska an honorary doctorate.{{r|profile}}
Selected publications
=Monograph=
- {{citation
| last = Sierpinska | first = Anna
| date = 1994
| doi = 10.4324/9780203454183
| isbn = 978-0-203-45418-3
| publisher = The Falmer Press
| title = Understanding in Mathematics}}{{r|uim}}
=Edited volumes=
- {{citation
| editor1-last = Sierpinska | editor1-first = Anna
| editor2-last = Kilpatrick | editor2-first = Jeremy
| doi = 10.1007/978-94-011-5470-3
| isbn = 978-94-011-5470-3
| publisher = Springer Netherlands
| series = New ICMI Study Series
| title = Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity
| volume = 4
| year = 1998}}{{r|merd}}
- {{citation
| editor1-last = Steinbring | editor1-first = Heinz
| editor2-last = Bussi | editor2-first = Maria G. Bartolini
| editor3-last = Sierpinska | editor3-first = Anna
| publisher = National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
| title = Language and Communication in the Mathematics Classroom
| year = 1998}}{{r|lcmc}}
=Articles=
- {{citation
| last = Sierpińska | first = Anna
| date = November 1987
| doi = 10.1007/bf00240986
| issue = 4
| journal = Educational Studies in Mathematics
| pages = 371–397
| title = Humanities students and epistemological obstacles related to limits
| volume = 18| s2cid = 144880659
}}
- {{citation
| last = Sierpinska | first = Anna
| date = November 1990
| issue = 3
| journal = For the Learning of Mathematics
| jstor = 40247990
| pages = 24–36, 41
| title = Some remarks on understanding in mathematics
| volume = 10}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Sierpinska | first1 = Anna
| last2 = Lerman | first2 = Stephen
| editor1-last = Bishop | editor1-first = Alan J.
| editor2-last = Clements | editor2-first = Ken
| editor3-last = Keitel | editor3-first = Christine
| editor4-last = Kilpatrick | editor4-first = Jeremy
| editor5-last = Laborde | editor5-first = Colette
| contribution = Epistemologies of mathematics and of mathematics education
| doi = 10.1007/978-94-009-1465-0_23
| pages = 827–876
| publisher = Springer Netherlands
| title = International Handbook of Mathematics Education
| year = 1997}}{{r|emme}}
- {{citation
| last = Sierpinska | first = Anna
| editor-last = Dorier | editor-first = Jean-Luc
| contribution = On some aspects of students' thinking in linear algebra
| doi = 10.1007/0-306-47224-4_8
| isbn = 978-0-306-47224-4
| pages = 209–246
| publisher = Kluwer Academic Publishers
| series = Mathematics Education Library
| title = On the Teaching of Linear Algebra
| volume = 23
| year = 2000}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Dorier | first1 = Jean-Luc
| last2 = Sierpinska | first2 = Anna
| editor1-last = Holton | editor1-first = Derek
| editor2-last = Artigue | editor2-first = Michèle
| editor3-last = Kirchgräber | editor3-first = Urs
| editor4-last = Hillel | editor4-first = Joel
| editor5-last = Niss | editor5-first = Mogens
| editor6-last = Schoenfeld | editor6-first = Alan
| contribution = Research into the teaching and learning of linear algebra
| doi = 10.1007/0-306-47231-7_24
| pages = 255–273
| publisher = Kluwer Academic Publishers
| series = New ICMI Study Series
| title = The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at University Level
| volume = 7}}
References
{{reflist|refs=
| last = Bakker | first = Arthur
| date = January 2019
| doi = 10.1007/s10649-019-9882-3
| issue = 1
| journal = Educational Studies in Mathematics
| pages = 1–5
| title = A virtual special issue to celebrate 100 volumes of Educational Studies in Mathematics: former editors' choices
| volume = 101| doi-access = free
}}
Review of "Epistemologies of mathematics and of mathematics education":
{{citation
| last = Otte | first = Michael
| journal = MathSciNet
| mr = 1459740
| title = none
| year = 1998}}
Reviews of Language and Communication in the Mathematics Classroom:
- {{citation
| last = Berk | first = Diane
| date = April 1999
| issue = 8
| journal = Teaching Children Mathematics
| jstor = 41197279
| page = 494
| title = none
| volume = 5}}
- {{citation
| last = McCrone | first = Sharon Soucy
| date = April 1999
| issue = 4
| journal = The Mathematics Teacher
| jstor = 27970993
| page = 370
| title = none
| volume = 92}}
- {{citation
| last = Morgan | first = Candia
| date = January 2000
| issue = 1
| journal = Educational Studies in Mathematics
| jstor = 3483062
| pages = 93–99
| title = Language in use in mathematics classrooms: Developing approaches to a research domain
| url = https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82258.pdf
| volume = 41| doi = 10.1023/A:1003891809328
| s2cid = 118207634
}}
- {{citation
| last = Shaw | first = Jean M.
| date = April 1999
| issue = 7
| journal = Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
| jstor = 41180685
| pages = 486–488
| title = none
| volume = 4}}
Reviews of Mathematics Education as a Research Domain:
- {{citation
| last = Alsina | first = Claudi
| journal = zbMATH
| title = none
| zbl = 0898.00006}}
- {{citation
| last1 = King | first1 = Karen D.
| last2 = McLeod | first2 = Douglas B.
| date = March 1999
| doi = 10.2307/749613
| issue = 2
| journal = Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
| jstor = 749613
| pages = 227–234
| title = Coming of age in academe
| volume = 30}}
- {{citation
| last = Steen | first = Lynn Arthur
| date = March 1999
| doi = 10.2307/749614
| issue = 2
| journal = Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
| jstor = 749614
| pages = 235–241
| title = Theories that gyre and gimble in the wabe
| volume = 30}}
Review of Understanding in Mathematics:
{{citation
| last = Schrock | first = Connie S.
| date = November 1995
| issue = 8
| journal = The Mathematics Teacher
| jstor = 27969552
| page = 688
| title = none
| volume = 88}}
}}
External links
- [https://annasierpinska.rowebca.name/ Home page]
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Category:Canadian mathematicians
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Category:Mathematics educators
Category:University of Warsaw alumni