Overview
Background
I am a senior lecturer in mathematics education at the University of Queensland. My research centres around design and theorising of resources for teaching mathematics well. This includes development of classroom mathematical activities, in which students encounter significant mathematical ideas and joy of the experience; support of mathematics teachers’ work so that they can organise their classrooms for their students' meaningful engagement with mathematics; and inquiries into history of mathematics and education aimed at understanding of possibilities for change. I have served as an editor of the Australian Mathematics Education Journal and currently am the Vice President for Publications within Mathematics Eudctaion Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), and an IPC member for the International Symposium on Elementary Mathematics Teaching.
I completed a Magister degree in mathematics at Comenius University in Slovakia and a PhD in mathematics education at Vanderbilt University in the USA. Before taking my role at UQ, I have taught middle-years mathematics and lectured in mathematics and mathematics education at Comenius, Vanderbilt, and University of California, Santa Cruz. As part of my research, I regularly spend time in schools and classrooms.
Availability
- Dr Jana Visnovska is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Masters (Research) of Mathematics, Comenius University in Bratislava
- Graduate Certificate in Teaching (Secondary), Comenius University in Bratislava
- Postgraduate Diploma in Education, Comenius University in Bratislava
- Doctor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Research interests
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Mathematics Education
My research is centred within mathematics education, driven by the need to teach mathematics well. I view my role as a researcher in co-development of teaching resources, and of professional discourse, capable of supporting mathematics teaching.
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Design Research
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Teaching Materials and Resources
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Teacher Professional Development
Works
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2019
Conference Publication
O vytváraní matematických konverzácií v triede
Visnovska, Jana (2019). O vytváraní matematických konverzácií v triede. Dva dni s didaktikou matematiky, Bratislava, Slovakia, 5-6 Sep 2019.
2019
Conference Publication
Učme zlomky cez meranie: prečo a ako
Višňovská, Jana and Slabý, Matej (2019). Učme zlomky cez meranie: prečo a ako. Dva Dni s Didaktikou Matematiky, Bratislava, Slovakia, 5-6 September 2019. Bratislava, Slovakia: FMFI Comenius University.
2019
Conference Publication
Notes from designing one resource for teachers’ use across the contexts of Mexico, Australia, and South Africa (An invited contribution to the Symposium on cross-cultural research on teachers’ use of resources)
Visnovska, Jana (2019). Notes from designing one resource for teachers’ use across the contexts of Mexico, Australia, and South Africa (An invited contribution to the Symposium on cross-cultural research on teachers’ use of resources). Third International Conference on Mathematics Textbook research and Development, Paderborn, Germany, 16-19 September 2019. Paderborn, Germany: Universitätsbibliothek Paderborn.
2019
Conference Publication
Designing individual goals to enhance the numeracy of adults with intellectual disabilities
Gaunt, Lorraine, Visnovska, Jana and Moni, Karen (2019). Designing individual goals to enhance the numeracy of adults with intellectual disabilities. The 42nd annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Perth, WA Australia, 29 June-4 July 2019. Perth, WA Australia: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia.
2019
Conference Publication
Apoyando el desarrollo del sentido numérico en preescolar
Cortina, J. L., Peña, J. and Visnovska, J. (2019). Apoyando el desarrollo del sentido numérico en preescolar. XV Congreso Nacional de Investigación Educativa, Acapulco, México, 18-22 November 2019. Acapulco, México: Consejo Mexicano de Investigación Educativa.
2019
Book Chapter
Documentation work, design capacity, and teachers’ expertise in designing instruction
Rezat, Sebastian, Le Hénaff, Carole, Visnovska, Jana, Kim, Ok-Kyeong, Leroyer, Laurence, Sabra, Hussein, El Hage, Suzane and Wang, Chongyang (2019). Documentation work, design capacity, and teachers’ expertise in designing instruction. The 'resource' approach to mathematics education. (pp. 323-388) edited by Luc Trouche , Ghislaine Gueudet and Birgit Pepin. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20393-1_11
2019
Conference Publication
Building learning opportunities in classrooms of disadvantage: rethinking the learning trajectories
Visnovska, Jana, Luis Cortina, Jose and Vale, Pamela (2019). Building learning opportunities in classrooms of disadvantage: rethinking the learning trajectories. International Symposium on Elementary Mathematics Teaching (SEMT), Prague, Czech Republic, 18-22 August 2019. Prague, Czech Republic: Charles University, Faculty of Education.
2018
Journal Article
What happened at Frida's museum?
Pena, Jesica, Cortina, Jose Luis and Visnovska, Jana (2018). What happened at Frida's museum?. Teaching Children Mathematics, 25 (3), 174-179. doi: 10.5951/teacchilmath.25.3.0174
2018
Book Chapter
Present research on mathematics textbooks and teachers’ resources in ICME-13: conclusion and perspectives
Rezat, Sebastian, Visnovska, Jana, Trouche, Luc, Qi, Chunxia and Fan, Lianghuo (2018). Present research on mathematics textbooks and teachers’ resources in ICME-13: conclusion and perspectives. Research on mathematics textbooks and teachers’ resources: advances and issues. (pp. 343-358) edited by Lianghuo Fan, Luc Trouche, Chunxia Qi, Sebastian Rezat and Jana Visnovska. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73253-4_16
2018
Conference Publication
Engaging pre-service non-specialist teachers in teaching mathematics using embodied technology tools
Matthews, Sarah, Boden, Marie and Visnovska, Jana (2018). Engaging pre-service non-specialist teachers in teaching mathematics using embodied technology tools. Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Auckland, New Zealand, 1-5 July 2018. Auckland, New Zealand: MERGA.
2018
Conference Publication
The role of the story in enabling meaningful mathematical engagement in the classroom
Visnovska, Jana, Cortina, Jose Luis, Vale, Pamela and Graven, Mellony (2018). The role of the story in enabling meaningful mathematical engagement in the classroom. Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Auckland, New Zealand, 1-5 July 2018. Auckland, New Zealand: MERGA.
2018
Book Chapter
Resourcing teachers in transition to plan for interactions with students’ ideas
Visnovska, Jana and Cortina, Jose Luis (2018). Resourcing teachers in transition to plan for interactions with students’ ideas. Research on mathematics textbooks and teachers’ resources: advances and issues. (pp. 277-295) edited by Lianghuo Fan, Luc Trouche, Chunxia Qi, Sebastian Rezat and Jana Visnovska. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73253-4_13
2018
Conference Publication
Designing to support teachers’ reconstruction of instructional design rationales
Visnovska, Jana and Cortina, Jose Luis (2018). Designing to support teachers’ reconstruction of instructional design rationales. Re(s)sources 2018, Lyon, France, 28 May - 1 June 2018. Lyon, France: ENS de Lyon.
2018
Book
Research on mathematics textbooks and teachers’ resources: advances and issues
Lianghuo Fan, Luc Trouche, Chunxia Qi, Sebastian Rezat and Jana Visnovska eds. (2018). Research on mathematics textbooks and teachers’ resources: advances and issues. ICME-13 Monographs, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73253-4
2018
Conference Publication
Resources for teaching: supporting a Mexican teacher’s learning
Visnovska, Jana and Cortina, Jose Luis (2018). Resources for teaching: supporting a Mexican teacher’s learning. ICMT2, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7-11 May 2017. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Instituto de Matematica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
2017
Book Chapter
Topic Study Group No. 38: research on resources (textbooks, learning materials etc.)
Fan, Lianghuo, Trouche, Luc, Qi, Chunxia, Rezat, Sebastian and Visnovska, Jana (2017). Topic Study Group No. 38: research on resources (textbooks, learning materials etc.). Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education: ICME-13. (pp. 561-564) edited by Gabriele Kaiser. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-62597-3_65
2017
Conference Publication
Supporting teachers in planning for interactions with students’ ideas
Visnovska, Jana and Cortina, Jose Luis (2017). Supporting teachers in planning for interactions with students’ ideas. 40th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Melbourne, Australia, 2-6 July 2017. Adelaide, SA, Australia: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia.
2017
Conference Publication
Learning to support all students’ fraction understanding
Visnovska, Jana and Cortina, Jose Luis (2017). Learning to support all students’ fraction understanding. Bi-annual International Symposium on Elementary Mathematics Teaching, Prague, Czech Republic, 20-25 August 2017. Prague, Czech Republic: Charles University.
2016
Conference Publication
Reciprocal relations of relative size in the instructional context of fractions as measures
Cortina, Jose Luis and Visnovska, Jana (2016). Reciprocal relations of relative size in the instructional context of fractions as measures. 40th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Szeged, Hungary, 3-7 August 2016. Szeged, Hungary: PME.
2016
Book Chapter
Introduction: Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2012–2015
Makar, Katie, Dole, Shelley, Visnovska, Jana, Goos, Merrilyn, Bennison, Anne and Fry, Kym (2016). Introduction: Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2012–2015. Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2012-2015. (pp. 1-12) edited by Katie Makar, Shelley Dole, Jana Visnovska, Merrilyn Goos, Anne Bennison and Kym Fry. City of Singapore, Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-1419-2_1
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Available projects
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Fractions and proportional reasoning across the years of schooling
Big part of my research includes exploring, understanding, and developing teaching resources that would aid teachers in making it possible for all students to thrive in mathematics classrooms. Typical resources used for initial teaching of fractions often support students' "performance" in the short run, but later undermine their efforts of making sense of proportionality. In this project, you will explore the types of difficulties students face and how these difficulties relate to the resources used in their teaching, and propose and trial alternative pathways for teaching fractions and proportionality in mathematics classrooms.
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Theorising and design of (mathematics) teachers' resources
Teaching resources (textbooks and their alternatives) reveal how we, as a society, and as researchers and designers, conceptualise teaching. On the one hand, resources can dictate to the teacher what is to be done. On the orther hand, they can collaborate with the teacher on figuring out how to best respond to different situations that arise in different classrooms. To produce resources that would be most useful to teachers in their diverse classrooms, researchers and designers must deal well with and rigorously theorise the complexity of education and teaching. How should we conceptualise teaching and how can we bring a particular conceptualisation of a teacher and teaching into resource design?
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Differentiating instruction in early secondary mathematics
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Stephen Heimans
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Doctor Philosophy
An Epistemology of Practice for Political and Existential Citizenship
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Stephen Heimans
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Master Philosophy
Designing mathematics instructions and tasks for green education
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Katie Makar
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Doctor Philosophy
Institutional language policies, academic literacies and power: a collaborative investigation of practices in higher education in Queensland
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Stephen Heimans
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
The landscape of mathematics vocabulary in Australian secondary school mathematics classrooms
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Merrilyn Goos
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Mathematics Textbooks as Curriculum Resources: Exploring How the Ministry-Published Textbook Supports Indonesian Teachers in Implementing a Student-Centred Teaching Approach
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Understanding different approaches to mathematics teaching and resulting mathematical classroom discourses in Iran
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Katie Makar
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Supporting Numeracy Development for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Karen Moni
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2023
Master Philosophy
Exploring the design of a framework for embedding arts phenomena in secondary school mathematics instruction
Associate Advisor
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Chinese Tertiary Teachers' Motivation, Their Use of Motivational Strategies, and Their Students' Achievement within the Context of Studying English as a Foreign Language
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Monica Cuskelly
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Exploring the Impact of Inquiry Learning on Students' Beliefs and Attitudes towards Mathematics
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Katie Makar
Media
Enquiries
Contact Dr Jana Visnovska directly for media enquiries about:
- Ambitious and equitable teaching of mathematics
- Classroom mathematical conversations
- Professional development of mathematics teachers
- Purposes of mathematics education
- Teaching early number
- Teaching fractions
- Teaching Numeracy across curriculum
- Teaching problem solving
- Teaching proportional reasoning
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