Research Focus: Math + Arts + Technology

Seeing mathematics through an Arts lens and using technology to bring mathematics to the wider world.

See I Heard this Great Math Story the Other Day!

Research Ideas

www.researchideas.ca

Documentaries of classroom research.

Funded by SSHRC, KNAER and the Fields Institute.

Funded Projects

Performing new images of mathematicians (2012-2015) ... funded by SSHRC.

Performing Mathematics Education Research (2011-2013) ... funded by SSHRC, KNAER and the Fields Institute

Students as Performance Mathematicians (2008-2011) ... funded by SSHRC

Math & Science Performance Festival ... funded by the Imperial Oil Foundation,the Fields Institute, Research Western, the Faculty of Education at UWO, and the Canadian Mathematical Society.

Joy of X and Windows into Elementary Mathematics funded by the Fields Institute

Math & Science Performance Festival

www.MathFest.ca

Funded by the Imperial Oil Foundation,the Fields Institute, Research Western, the Faculty of Education at UWO, and the Canadian Mathematical Society.

See the 2012 picks by our judges.

www.JoyofX.ca

School performances funded by the Fields Institute.

Latest Music Video: The way mathematicians bend space ... do they really?

Windows into Elementary Mathematics

www.fields.utoronto.ca/mathwindows

Funded by the Fields Institute.

Prominent mathematicians discuss topics from elementary mathematics.

Research Performances

How do we share our research with the wider community?

• Math Surprise ... from gr. 3
• The Big Bad Wolf ... from a math-for-teachers course
• I've never met a happy bully ... based on the work of Dr. Peter Jaffe
• Reperforming ... and more ... from our SSHRC project
• Digital Math Performance

Math & Science Camp

Songs based on student writing

• Will it float or will it sink?
• Refraction action
• I like infinity
• ... more

Math Learning Objects

• Digital Windows into Mathematics (Gadanidis & Sedig) - funded by Inukshuk
• Mathematics Preparedness Program (Gadanidis & Jardine) - funded by the Maurice Price Foundation
• Math Scene (Gadanidis, Hughes & Borba)

Graduate Students

• Ricardo Scucuglia (PhD - in progress)
• Ruth Teszeri (Master's - in progress)
• Linda Moore (Master's - in progress)
• Liliana Simion (Master's - 2011) - "Effects of Frequent Cooperative Quizzes on the Achievement of First Year College Students Enrolled in a Mathematics Course"
• Wendy Ruth Carter (Master's - 2010) - "A case study of a regional youth festival of the arts"
• De-Graft Kwadwo Osafo (Master's - 2010) - "Exploring Science Education through Performance-arts Lens"
• Andrea Law (Master's - 2009) - "Tablet PC’s and their impact on Teaching and Learning"
• Monique Van Hooft (Master's - 2009) - "Developing the Digital Literacy Skills of First Year College and University Students"
• Amy Strauss (Master's - 2008) - "Podcasts, Blogs, and Wikis"
• Alireza Moghaddam (PhD - 2008) - "Virtual Collaboration: Creating a Teaching-Learning and Knowledge Constructing Model"
• Donna Kotsopoulos (PhD - 2007) - "Communication in Mathematics:  A Disclosure Analysis of Peer Collaborations"
• Stephanie Luxton (Master's - 2007) - "An Examination of Exemplar Mentoring Programs to Identify the Keys to Success"
• Michelle Cordy (Master's - 2006) - "If Ten is the Answer, What is the Question?"
• Tammy Flemming (Master's 2006) - "Effective Mentoring"
• John Dallan (Master's - 2003)
• Elizabeth Matlock (Master's - 2003)

Awards (partial list)

2012-2015 SSHRC grant on Performing New Images of Mathematicians ($98,730)

2011 SSHRC and Fields Institute grants on Performing Mathematics Education Research ($99,000)

2011 KNAER grant on What did you do in Math today? ($25,000)

2010 Outstanding Paper Award for: Gadanidis, G. & Hughes, J. (2010). “Sing me a good story”: Using online music videos to share students’ classroom mathematics. ED-MEDIA 2010-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Toronto, Canada.

2008-2011 SSHRC grant on Students as Performance Mathematicians ($95,000)

2008-2013 Imperial Oil Foundation grant for the Math Performance Festival ($50,000)

2006-2008 SSHRC-RDI grant on Digital Mathematical Performance ($40,000)

2006 Inukshuk grant for Windows into Mathematics ($80,000)

2006 Maurice Price Foundadtion grant for the Math Preparedness Program ($60,000)

2006 Inducted a Lifetime Fellow of the Fields Institute

2004-2007 SSHRC grant on The Effect of Applets Supporting Higher Level Mathematical Thinking on Pedagogy and Student Learning ($85,000)

Associations

• Fields Institute
• Canadian mathematics education study group (CMESG) / Groupe Canadien d'étude en didactique des mathématiques (GCEDM)
• Canadian Mathematical Society

Publications (selected journal papers & book chapters)

• Gadanidis, G. & Hughes, J. (2011). Performing big math ideas across the grades. Teaching Children Mathematics, 17(8), 486-496 .
• Gadanidis, G. & Scucuglia, R. (2010). Windows into elementary mathematics: alternate mathematics images of mathematics and mathematicians (Janelas para Matemática Elementar: imagens públicas alternativas de matemáticae matemáticos). Acta Scientiae, 12(1), 24-42
• Gadanidis, G. & Geiger, V. (2010). A social perspective on technology enhanced mathematical learning - from collaboration to performance. The International Journal on Mathematics Education 42, 91-104.
• Gadanidis, G. & Namukasa, I. (2009). Teacher Tasks for Mathematical Insight and Reorganization of what it Means to Learn Mathematics. In Clarke, B., B. Grevholm, & R. Millman, Effective Tasks in Primary Mathematics Teacher Education (pp. 113-130). N.Y.: Springer.
• Gadanidis, G. & Kotsopoulos, D. (2009). “This is how we do this and this is how it is.” Middle school teachers’ mathematical compass. For the Learning of Mathematics, 29(1), 29-34.
• Borba, M. & Gadanidis, G. (2008). Virtual communities and networks of practising mathematics teachers: The role of technology in collaboration. In T. Wood (Series Editor) & K. Krainer (Volume Editor), International handbook of mathematics teacher education: Vol. 3. Participants in mathematics teacher education: individuals, teams, communities, and networks (pp. 181-209). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• Gadanidis, G., Hoogland, C & Hughes, J. (2008). Teaching and learning in a Web 2.0 environment: Three case studies. International Journal of Technology for Teaching and Learning, 4(2), 117-133.
• Gadanidis, G., Hughes, J. & Borba, M. (2008). Students as performance mathematicians. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 14(3), 168-175.
• Gadanidis, G. & Borba, M. (2008). Our lives as performance mathematicians. For the Learning of Mathematics, 28(1), 42-49.
• Gadanidis, G. & Namukasa, I. (2007). Mathematics-for-teachers (and students). Journal of Teaching and Learning, 5(1), 13-22.
• Gadanidis, G. & Schindler, K. (2006). Learning objects and embedded pedagogical models. Computers in the Schools 23(1/2), 19-32.
• Gadanidis, G., Gadanidis, J. & Huang, A. (2005). Using humor to gain mathematical insight. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 10(5), 244-250.
• Gadanidis, G., Sedig, K. & Liang, H.N. (2004). Designing online mathematical investigation. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 23(3), 273-296.
• Gadanidis, G. (2004). The pleasure of attention and insight. Mathematics Teaching, 186(1), 10-13.

Contact

George Gadanidis
Faculty of Education,
University of Western Ontario
1137 Western Rd, London, ON, N6G 1G7, Canada
Email: ggadanid @ uwo.ca