Igor' Kontorovich
Associate Professor in Mathematics Education
For current and potential research students
Potential students are welcome to email me regarding Summer Research Scholarship, Honours, Master / Master of Professional Studies, and PhD. All these involve a research component.
My main research themes are:
- mathematics learning and teaching in university and secondary school, including the transition period
- coming to grips with threshold concepts and fundamental processes (e.g., problem posing, problem solving,
proving, defining, exemplifying) and investigating how digital resources can be of help
- mathematicians' teaching practices, research, and the interrelations between them
- mathematical communication online and in hybrid spaces
- theories of learning with a special interest in discursive and socio-cultural approaches
- creativity and giftedness.
Two lines of research have intensified recently: developmental research in co-partnership with school teachers and teacher-mathematicians, and mathematics education of Pasifika and Māori students.
Feel free to explore some of my current projects. I am always open to new projects with new people.