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SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS

Dora Solange
ROA FUENTES

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Director of Postgraduate Office

Director of GED
Research Group

CONTACT

Information

doraroaf@uis.edu.co

+57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 2338

GENERAL

Biography

Professor Dora Solange Roa Fuentes joined the School of Mathematics as a tenured professor and  faculty member in 2010. Her work focuses on supporting the education of undergraduate students in Mathematics Education, Mathematics, and Engineering programs. Her research interests primarily revolve around the development of advanced mathematical thinking, the study of potential mathematical talent, algebraic thinking, and the didactics of linear algebra.

She has supervised more than twenty master’s theses and three doctoral theses, some of whose results have been published in internationally recognized journals. Thanks to her work with the APOE Theory (Action, Process, Object, and Schema), she collaborated with researchers like Ed Dubinsky, Asuman Oktaç, María Trigueros, and others in writing the book titled “APOS Theory: A framework for research and curriculum development in mathematics education.”

Her interest in phenomena associated with the teaching and learning of mathematics is rooted in the complexity of abstraction and generalization processes in mathematics. This aspect has guided her professional development, aided by her education in the Mathematics Education program at the Universidad Industrial de Santander.

 

EDUCATION AND

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Science in Educational Mathematics


    Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV - IPN), 2012

  • Master of Science in Educational Mathematics


    Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV - IPN), 2008

  • Specialist in Mathematics Education


    Universidad Industrial de Santander, 2004

  • Degree in Mathematics


    Universidad Industrial de Santander, 2001

Director of Postgraduate Office

Director of
GED Research Group

CONTACT

Information

doraroaf@uis.edu.co

+57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 2338

AREAS OF

Expertise

  • Advanced mathematical thinking

  • Attention to potential mathematical talent

  • APOE theory

  • Algebraic thinking

  • Didactics of linear algebra

OFFICE

Hours

Monday to friday

7:00 a.m. – 12 m.

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

UIS Campus Central, Edificio Laboratorios Livianos, Escuela de Matemáticas

Research

Group

AWARDS AND

Recognitions

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