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
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Doctor of Science in Educational Mathematics
Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV - IPN), 2012
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Master of Science in Educational Mathematics
Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV - IPN), 2008
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Specialist in Mathematics Education
Universidad Industrial de Santander, 2004
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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
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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
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Outstanding
Works
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Construcciones mentales asociadas a los eigenvalores y eigenvectores: refinación de un modelo cognitivo
Article, Avances de Investigación en Educación Matemática (AIEM), 2022
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A Theoretical Model for the Development of Mathematical Talent through Mathematical Creativity
Article, Education Sciences, 2020