Gale Russell
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Education
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Gale Russell is an Assistant Professor in Department of Education at University of Regina, Canada.
Research Interest
Impacts on and opportunities within mathematics and the teaching and learning of mathematics that result from the perspectives of different worldviews (in particular, the Traditional Western worldview and an Indigenous worldview); Occurrences of polysemy between English and Aboriginal English within the mathematics register and its relationship to teaching and learning as well as culture and language preservation; Teachers' and students' understanding of zero; Preservice teachers' probabilistic thinking; Ethnomathematics; and, Factors influencing how preservice teachers choose their program of study.