Anna Sierpińska (born 1947) is a Polish-Canadian scholar of
mathematics education, known for her investigations of
understanding and
epistemology in mathematics education. She is a professor emerita of mathematics and statistics at
Concordia University
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Education and career
Sierpińska 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.
She was editor-in-chief of ''
Educational Studies in Mathematics'' from 2001 to 2005.
Recognition
In 2006,
Luleå University of Technology in Sweden gave Sierpińska an honorary doctorate.
Selected publications
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Edited volumes
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References
External links
Home page
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1947 births
Living people
Canadian mathematicians
Canadian women mathematicians
Polish women mathematicians
20th-century Polish mathematicians
21st-century Polish mathematicians
Mathematics educators
University of Warsaw alumni
Academic staff of Concordia University