Nathalie Sinclair

Nathalie Sinclair
Sinclair in 2011
Born1970 (age 54–55)
ChildrenNadège Jackiw
Academic background
EducationMcGill University
PhD, Queen's University
Academic work
InstitutionsMichigan State University
Simon Fraser University

Nathalie Michelle Sinclair (born 1970)[1] is a Canadian researcher in mathematics education who holds the Canada Research Chair in Tangible Mathematics Learning at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.[2]

Early life and education

Sinclair was born in Grenoble, the daughter of Canadian academics who were on sabbatical there; she grew up in Calgary. She began her undergraduate studies at McGill University in business, but quickly switched to mathematics, and then earned a master's degree with Len Berggren at Simon Fraser on the history of mathematics and mathematics in medieval Islam.[3]

She became a middle school teacher of mathematics and French on Bowen Island.[3] Sinclair then earned her Ph.D. in 2002 from Queen's University at Kingston, under the joint supervision of Peter Taylor of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and William Higginson of the Faculty of Education.[4]

Career

Sinclair in 2017

In 2003, Sinclair accepted a joint appointment in the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Education at Michigan State University.[5]

In 2014, Sinclair and Nicholas Jackiw developed a mathematical app targeted at children ages three to eight. The purpose of the app is to teach children math through "hands-on" learning.[6] Two years later, she was named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Tangible Mathematics Learning.[7]

In March 2017, Sinclair was named Canada's Mathematics Ambassador by Partners in Research for her contributions to the field of mathematics.[8] Later that year, Sinclair was elected a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.[9] In 2019, Sinclair was awarded the Svend Pedersen Lecture Award.[10]

Selected publications

  • Sinclair, Nathalie; Yurita, Violeta (September 2008), "To be or to become: how dynamic geometry changes discourse", Research in Mathematics Education, 10 (2): 135–150, doi:10.1080/14794800802233670. Winner of the Janet Duffin Award for the best paper of the year in Research in Mathematics Education.[11]
  • de Freitas, Elizabeth; Sinclair, Nathalie (2014), Mathematics and the Body: Material Entanglements in the Classroom, Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107039483.[12] Honourable Mention for Innovations in Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association, 2015.[13]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from ISNI authority control file, retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. ^ Nathalie Sinclair, Canada Research Chairs, retrieved 2016-07-08.
  3. ^ a b "Nathalie Sinclair" (PDF), Mathematics with a Human Face, Math Central, Mathematics and Statistics and Mathematics Education, University of Regina, retrieved 2016-07-08.
  4. ^ Nathalie Sinclair at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "College Welcomes New faculty". educ.msu.edu. Fall 2003. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  6. ^ Allen M. Quinn (August 8, 2019). "New approach to math gives kids 'hands-on' experience with numbers". sfu.ca. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  7. ^ "Nathalie Sinclair". chairs-chaires.gc.ca. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  8. ^ "SFU education professor Nathalie Sinclair named 2017 Mathematics Ambassador by Partners in Research". sfu.ca. March 15, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  9. ^ "Nathalie Sinclair Inducted into Royal Society of Canada". sfu.ca. September 12, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  10. ^ "Svend Pedersen Lecture Award 2019 - to Nathalie Sinclair". mnd.su.se. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  11. ^ Ainley, Janet (March 2009), "The Janet Duffin Award for 2008", Research in Mathematics Education, 11 (1): 95–95, doi:10.1080/14794800902734650.
  12. ^ Chorney, Sean (April 2015), "Reviewing Mathematics and the Body: Material Entanglements in the Classroom", Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 15 (2): 203–209, doi:10.1080/14926156.2015.1029650.
  13. ^ The 2015 AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Award Recipients, American Educational Research Association, retrieved 2016-07-08.