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PhD Mathematics Education University of British Columbia
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Bachelors Mathematics University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Rina Zazkis is a Canadian scholar in education and mathematics. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and a Canada Research Chair in STEM Teaching and Learning. Career Zazkis began her academic career at Simon Fraser University in 1991 as an Assistant Professor. She was eventually promoted to Full Professor in the Faculty of Education by 2000. In 2011, she was a recipient of the Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence.

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Generalization of patterns: the tension between algebraic thinking and algebraic notation (2002) (219)
On learning fundamental concepts of group theory (1994) (166)
Exemplifying definitions: a case of a square (2008) (145)
STRATEGIES: A STUDY OF STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING OF THE GROUP D4 (1996) (131)
Divisibility and Multiplicative Structure of Natural Numbers: Preservice Teachers' Understanding. (1996) (121)
What makes a counterexample exemplary? (2008) (113)
Advanced Mathematical Knowledge in Teaching Practice: Perceptions of Secondary Mathematics Teachers (2010) (103)
Understanding Primes: The Role of Representation. (2004) (89)
Lesson Plays: Planning Teaching versus Teaching Planning. (2009) (78)
Lesson Play in Mathematics Education:: A Tool for Research and Professional Development (2012) (74)
Reconceptualizing Knowledge at the Mathematical Horizon. (2011) (72)
Contingency in the Mathematics Classroom: Opportunities Taken and Opportunities Missed (2013) (70)
Interweaving mathematics and pedagogy in task design: a tale of one task (2007) (70)
Interviewing in mathematics education research: Choosing the questions (1998) (68)
Teaching Mathematics as Storytelling (2008) (63)
Coordinating Visual and Analytic Strategies: A Study of Students' Understanding of the Group D4 (1996) (61)
Learning group isomorphism: A crossroads of many concepts (1995) (57)
Lesson Play in Mathematics Education (2013) (57)
Paradoxes as a window to infinity (2008) (54)
Learning through teaching mathematics : development of teachers' knowledge and expertise in practice (2010) (53)
Reducing Abstraction: The Case of School Mathematics (2005) (52)
Learning and teaching number theory : research in cognition and instruction (2002) (48)
Conceptions of function translation: obstacles, intuitions, and rerouting (2003) (46)
A curious case of superscript (−1): Prospective secondary mathematics teachers explain (2016) (42)
The structuring of personal example spaces (2011) (41)
The role of examples in forming and refuting generalizations (2008) (40)
Decoding a proof of Fermat's Little Theorem via script writing (2013) (38)
Script writing in the mathematics classroom: imaginary conversations on the structure of numbers (2014) (38)
Using Code-Switching as a Tool for Learning Mathematical Language. (2000) (38)
On fractions and non-standard representations: Pre-service teachers' concepts (1994) (36)
Irrational numbers on the number line – where are they? (2007) (35)
Number theory in mathematics education : perspectives and prospects (2006) (35)
Making Sense of Irrational Numbers: Focusing on Representation. (2004) (32)
The significance of mathematical knowledge in teaching elementary methods courses: perspectives of mathematics teacher educators (2011) (31)
On the content-dependence of prospective teachers’ knowledge: a case of exemplifying definitions (2010) (30)
Learning by Teaching: The Case of Sieve of Eratosthenes and One Elementary School Teacher (2012) (30)
Prime decomposition: Understanding uniqueness (1996) (29)
From personal to conventional probabilities: from sample set to sample space (2011) (28)
Research mathematicians as teacher educators: focusing on mathematics for secondary mathematics teachers (2018) (28)
Intuitive rules in number theory: Example of ‘The more of A, the more of B’ rule implementation (1999) (27)
Representing numbers: prime and irrational (2005) (26)
Divisors and Quotients: Acknowledging Polysemy. (1999) (26)
Learning mathematics in a virtual classroom: reflection on experiment (2000) (26)
Arithmetic Sequence as a Bridge between Conceptual Fields (2002) (25)
Representing and Defining Irrational Numbers: Exposing the Missing Link (2010) (24)
Odds and Ends of Odds and Evens: An Inquiry Into Students' Understanding of Even and Odd Numbers (1998) (24)
A Reaction to Burn's “What Are The Fundemental Concepts of Group Theory?” (1997) (22)
Teachers’ Opportunities to Learn Mathematics Through Teaching (2010) (21)
Place Value and Rational Number Representations: Problem Solving in the Unfamiliar Domain of Non-decimals. (1993) (21)
Turn vs. shape: teachers cope with incompatible perspectives on angle (2016) (20)
A fictional dialogue on infinitude of primes: introducing virtual duoethnography (2015) (20)
Learning Through Teaching Mathematics (2010) (18)
Number Worlds: Visual and Experimental Access to Elementary Number Theory Concepts (2003) (18)
Prospective Teachers’ Conceptions of Proof Comprehension: Revisiting a Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (2016) (17)
Lesson Play tasks as a creative venture for teachers and teacher educators (2017) (16)
Sets, subsets, and the empty set: students' constructions and mathematical conventions (1997) (16)
Fraction images: the case of six and a half (2020) (15)
Stuck on convention: a story of derivative relationships (2012) (15)
Space of fuzziness: avoidance of deterministic decisions in the case of the inverse function (2018) (15)
Challenging basic assumptions: mathematical experiences for pre-service teachers (1999) (15)
Examples as Tools in Mathematics Teacher Education (2008) (13)
Of geometry, turtles, and groups (1992) (13)
Everybody Counts: Designing Tasks for TouchCounts (2017) (13)
Mimicry of proofs with computers: the case of Linear Algebra (2003) (13)
COGNITIVE CONFLICT AND ITS RESOLUTION VIA PIVOTAL/BRIDGING EXAMPLE (2006) (13)
Lesson Play: A Vehicle for Multiple Shifts of Attention in Teaching (2009) (12)
Computational Recursion and Mathematical Induction. (1986) (12)
Order of operations: On convention and met-before acronyms (2018) (11)
Scripting Tasks as a Springboard for Extending Prospective Teachers’ Example Spaces: a Case of Generating Functions (2018) (11)
Calculus for Teachers: Perspectives and Considerations of Mathematicians (2020) (11)
ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE: HOW IS IT USED IN TEACHING? (2010) (11)
On Painter’s Paradox: Contextual and Mathematical Approaches to Infinity (2015) (10)
Fuzzy Thinking in Non-Fuzzy Situations: Understanding Students' Perspective. (1995) (10)
One Line Proof: What Can Go Wrong? (2005) (10)
Derivative of area equals perimeter--coincidence or rule? (2013) (9)
Snapshots of Creativity in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (2009) (9)
Contributions of “Mathematics for Elementary Teachers” Courses to Teaching: Prospective Teachers’ Views and Examples (2011) (8)
A coloured window on pre-service teachers’ conceptions of rational numbers (2006) (8)
Focus on Language (2013) (7)
Number Theory in Mathematics Education Research: Perspectives and Prospects (2012) (7)
A VIEW ON THE TEACHERS’ OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN MATHEMATICS THROUGH TEACHING (7)
Contextual Considerations in Probabilistic Situations: An Aid or a Hindrance? (2014) (7)
Translation of a Function: Coping with Perceived Inconsistency. (2003) (7)
Mathematical thinking: how to develop it in the classroom (2012) (7)
“It Is Very, Very Random Because It Doesn’t Happen Very Often”: Examining Learners’ Discourse on Randomness (2014) (6)
Wondering about Wonder in Mathematics (2014) (6)
Number concepts with Number Worlds : thickening understandings (2006) (6)
Personal, Nonlocal, Tacit: On Mathematical Knowledge in Teaching (2020) (6)
An Investigation of the Representativeness Heuristic: The Case of a Multiple Choice Exam. (2016) (6)
Odd + Odd = Odd: Is It Possible?. (2011) (5)
CONTINUOUS PROBLEM OF FUNCTION CONTINUITY (2015) (5)
Making the Connection: Divisibility and Transparency of Number Representations (2008) (4)
What makes a story (2009) (4)
The Number-Theoretic Experience of 12- to 15-Year- Olds in a Calculator Environment: The Intertwining Coemergence of Technique and Theory (2012) (4)
Advanced Mathematics for Secondary School Teachers: Mathematicians’ Perspective (2021) (4)
“I Understand” Talk in Script Writing: A Case from Euclid’s Elements (2018) (4)
Scripting Approaches in Mathematics Education (2018) (4)
Divisibility: A Problem Solving Approach Through Generalizing and Specializing (1999) (4)
Capturing congruence with a turtle (1991) (4)
Order of Operations: On Conventions, Mnemonics and Knowledge-in-Use. (2017) (3)
On Numbers: Concepts, Operations, and Structure (2016) (3)
Exploring conceptions of infinity via super-tasks: A case of Thomson’s Lamp and Green Alien (2016) (3)
What Students Need: Exploring Teachers' Views via Imagined Role-Playing. (2014) (3)
From disturbance to task design, or a story of a rectangular lake (2018) (3)
A Problem With The Problem Of Points (2010) (3)
Productive ambiguity in unconventional representations: “what the fraction is going on?” (2021) (3)
On the density of ℚ in ℝ: Imaginary dialogues scripted by undergraduate students (2020) (3)
Planning for Instruction (2013) (3)
Learning Elementary Number Theory Through a Chain of Discovery: Preservice Teachers’ Encounter with Pentominoes (2012) (3)
On Linear Functions and Their Graphs: Refining the Cartesian Connection (2020) (3)
On the Connections Between General Educations Theories and Theories in Mathematics Education (2012) (3)
Evoking the Feeling of Uncertainty for Enhancing Conceptual Knowledge (2017) (2)
Theorem-out-of-Action: Formal vs. Naive Knowledge in Solving a Graphic Programming Problem (1992) (2)
SEAN vs. CANTOR: USING MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE IN 'EXPERIENCE OF DISTURBANCE' (2009) (2)
What Have I Learned: Mathematical Insights and Pedagogical Implications (2010) (2)
Non‐decimals: fractions in bases other than ten (1993) (2)
Confronting Infinity via Ping-Pong Ball Conundrum (2007) (2)
Irrational gap: sensemaking trajectories of irrational exponents (2021) (2)
Development of Researcher Knowledge in Mathematics Education: Towards a Confluence Framework (2015) (2)
From Trigonometry to Number Theory… and Back: Extending LCM to Rational Numbers (2015) (2)
Dialogues on Dialogues: The Use of Classical Dialogues in Mathematics Teacher Education (2018) (2)
Conjecturing in a Computer Microworld: Zooming out and Zooming In (2006) (2)
On the Use of Dialogues: Looking Back and Looking Forward (2018) (2)
Points of connection to secondary teaching in undergraduate mathematics courses (2019) (2)
Groups to the Rescue: Responding to Situations of Contingency (2018) (1)
Dialogues on Numbers: Script-Writing as Approximation of Practice (2018) (1)
Locating Irrational Numbers on the Number Line (2005) (1)
On 'Mathematics for Elementary Teachers' Courses (2011) (1)
Fooled by Rounding (2019) (1)
Imagining Mathematics Teaching via Scripting Tasks. (2013) (1)
Hilbert's Grand Hotel with a series twist (2014) (1)
A DIALOGIC METHOD OF PRESENTING PROOFS: FOCUS ON FERMAT'S LITTLE THEOREM (2013) (1)
Creating a story (2009) (1)
Prospective teachers’ responses to students’ dialogue on fractions: attribute substitution and heuristic approaches (2022) (1)
Learning Mathematics through Programming: The Case of Functions and Variables. (1989) (1)
What Makes an Example Exemplary: Pedagogical and Didactical Issues in Appreciating Multiplicative Structures (2012) (1)
Pedagogical Tasks Toward Extending Mathematical Knowledge: Notes on the Work of Teacher Educators (2021) (1)
“Canada Is Better”: An Unexpected Reaction to the Order of Operations in Arithmetic (2018) (1)
The Learning and Teaching of Number (2021) (1)
Revisiting Fractions (0)
From Creation to Critique (2013) (0)
Lesson Play tasks as a creative venture for teachers and teacher educators (2016) (0)
Counting the stars: advancing mathematical activity in a scripting journey (2023) (0)
Encounters With “Love and Math” A Belated Review of Edward Frenkel’s Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden (2023) (0)
A study of future physics teachers’ knowledge for teaching: A case of a decibel sound level scale (2021) (0)
Repeating Patterns: Cars and Colours (2013) (0)
Stories that explain (2009) (0)
Stories that tell a joke (2009) (0)
Reducing Abstraction: The Case of Elementary Mathematics. (2003) (0)
Playing with Numbers (2021) (0)
Correction to: Pedagogical Tasks Toward Extending Mathematical Knowledge: Notes on the Work of Teacher Educators (2021) (0)
On the classic paradox of infinity and a related function (2021) (0)
Extending Horizon: A Story of a Teacher Educator. (2016) (0)
KNOWLEDGE : HOW IS IT USED IN TEACHING ? (2010) (0)
Turn vs. shape: teachers cope with incompatible perspectives on angle (2016) (0)
Synthesizing Exception-Barring and What-If-Not: If Not, What Yes? (2021) (0)
Encounters with Euclidean Propositions (2021) (0)
Making sense of irrational exponents: University students explore (2020) (0)
Do we need to insist on REAL numbers? (2019) (0)
Fooled by Rounding (2019) (0)
Stories that introduce (2009) (0)
Getting Ready to Act (2021) (0)
Uncovering hidden windmills across contexts (2021) (0)
Exploring Variations in Algorithms for Arithmetic Operations (2021) (0)
Correction to: Calculus for Teachers: Perspectives and Considerations of Mathematicians (2020) (0)
Using existing stories (2009) (0)
Technology in Mathematics Teacher Education on Trust and Pitfalls (2020) (0)
Stories on Problem-Solving Instruction (2021) (0)
Cycling through Numbers (2021) (0)
Mathematics Teachers' First Engagement with Research Articles in Mathematics Education: Sketches of New Praxeologies (2019) (0)
On Divisibility by 4 (2013) (0)
On Prime Numbers (2013) (0)
Measuring with Numbers (2021) (0)
Examples that change minds (2006) (0)
Stories that Ask a question (2009) (0)
Research mathematicians as teacher educators: focusing on mathematics for secondary mathematics teachers (2017) (0)
Transitioning between Numerical Domains (2021) (0)
Part I: Preface – On Changing the Landscape: Ecclesiastes Vs. Heraclitus (2018) (0)
Order of operations: On convention and met-before acronyms (2017) (0)
Stories of a teacher and his students (2009) (0)
Stuck on convention: a story of derivative relationships (2012) (0)
Representing Numbers Multiplicatively (2021) (0)
Correction to: Calculus for Teachers: Perspectives and Considerations of Mathematicians (2020) (0)
Linear Measurement: How Long is a Stick? (2013) (0)
Calculus for Teachers: Perspectives and Considerations of Mathematicians (2020) (0)
Scripting Tasks as a Springboard for Extending Prospective Teachers’ Example Spaces: a Case of Generating Functions (2018) (0)
Multiple Uses of Lesson Play (2013) (0)
Stories that accompany and stories that intertwine (2009) (0)
Foreword (2005) (0)
Entering the Terrain (2021) (0)
From “Obviously Wrong” Methods to Surprisingly Correct Answers (2021) (0)
A Fictional Dialogue on Infinitude of Primes (2021) (0)
Introducing Lesson Play (2013) (0)
The Journey Continues (2021) (0)
Capturing Numbers (0)
Encounters with Cardano’s Method (2021) (0)
Disturbance as a Driving Force (2021) (0)
From disturbance to task design, or a story of a rectangular lake (2016) (0)
Evolution of the Task (2013) (0)
Images of Teaching (2013) (0)
On Linear Functions and Their Graphs: Refining the Cartesian Connection (2020) (0)
Area and Perimeter: Melon Farm (2013) (0)
Space of fuzziness: avoidance of deterministic decisions in the case of the inverse function (2018) (0)
Prospective Teachers’ Conceptions of Proof Comprehension: Revisiting a Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (2015) (0)
A fictional dialogue on infinitude of primes: introducing virtual duoethnography (2014) (0)
On Painter’s Paradox: Contextual and Mathematical Approaches to Infinity (2015) (0)
Departing from Base-Ten (2021) (0)
Mathematical Encounters and Pedagogical Detours (2021) (0)
Stories that set a frame or a background (2009) (0)
On Comparing Fractions (2013) (0)
When algebra is not enough: a dialogue on the composition of even and odd functions (2022) (0)
Calculus for teachers: Visions and considerations of mathematicians (2020) (0)
From Trigonometry to Number Theory… and Back: Extending LCM to Rational Numbers (2015) (0)

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