Areas of responsibility
I lead the Mathematical Thinking Processes in Schools (MaThS) group within MERGA.
I am Editor in Chief of For the Learning of Mathematics.
Research
I am interested in:
- proof and proving in mathematics education,
- Research partner in the "International Comparative Study on the Influences of Ordinary Language in Mathematical Argumentation in Mathematics Classrooms"
- proof based teaching,
- enactivism as a theory of learning and a methodology,
- Editor of ZDM issue 47(2), "Enactivist methodology in mathematics education research"
- digital tools in algebra learning
- Research partner in the MAL project (Completed)
- social disparity in mathematics education,
- Research partner in "The emergence of disparity in mathematics performance" project. (Completed)
- comparing pedagogies,
- Research leader of "Observing teachers: Mathematics pedagogy in regions of Canada" project (Completed)
Academic interests
Editor of For the Learning of Mathematics https://flm-journal.org
Selected publications (for recent publications, see below)
Books:
Reid, D.A., Suurtamm, C., Savard, A., Simmt, E., Manuel, D., Lunney Borden, L., & Barwell, R. (2020) Researching Pedagogy and Practice with Canadian Mathematics Teachers. IAP. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Researching-Pedagogy-and-Practice-with-Canadian-Mathematics-Teachers
Hanna, G., Reid, D. A., & de Villiers, M. (Eds.) (2019) Proof Technology in Mathematics Research and Teaching. Springer.
Reid, D., & Knipping, C. (2010) Proof in mathematics education: Research, learning and teaching. Sense.
Journal Articles
Ahmadpour Mobarakeh, F., Reid, D., & Fadaee, M. (2019) Students’ ways of understanding a proof. Mathematical Thinking and Learning. DOI: 10.1080/10986065.2019.1570833
Reid, D.A. & Vallejo Vargas, E.A. (2019). Evidence and argument in a proof based teaching theory. ZDM Mathematics Education https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-019-01027-x
Reinschlüssel, A., Alexandrovsky, D., Döring, T., Kraft, A., Braukmüller, M., Janßen, T., Reid, D.A., Vallejo, E., Bikner-Ahsbahs, A., & Malaka, R. (2018). Multimodal Algebra Learning: From Math Manipulatives to Tangible User Interfaces. i-com, 17 (3), pp. 201-209. DOI:10.1515/icom-2018-0027 .
Reid, D.A. (2018). Abductive Reasoning in Mathematics Education: Approaches to and Theorisations of a Complex Idea. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(9), em1584. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/92552
Reid, D. & Mgombelo, J. (2015). Survey of key concepts in enactivist theory and methodology. ZDM Mathematics Education. DOI 10.1007/s11858-014-0634-7
Brown, L. & Reid, D. (2006). Embodied Cognition: Somatic markers, purposes and emotional orientations. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 63(2) 179-192.
Reid, D. (2002). Conjectures and refutations in grade 5 mathematics. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 33(1) 5-29
Drodge, E. & Reid, D. (2001). Embodied cognition and the mathematical emotional orientation. Mathematical Thinking and Learning 2(4), pp. 249-267.
Conference papers
Reid, D. (2015). Student understanding of proof and proving: Is international comparison possible? In K. Beswick, T. Muir, & J. Wells (Eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 4, pp. 65–72). Hobart, Australia: PME.
Reid, D. (2011) Understanding proof and transforming teaching. In Wiest, L., & Lamberg, T. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. (pp. 15-30) Reno NV: University of Nevada. (Invited Plenary presentation)
Reid, D. (1996). Enactivism as a methodology. In L. Puig & A Gutiérrez,(Eds.), Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, (Vol. 4, pp. 203-210). Valencia, Spain.
Tuition
Didactics of algebra and number theory
MA-444-1
https://www.uia.no/en/studieplaner/topic/MA-444-1
Mathematics teaching and perspectives on learning
MA-446-1
Short biography
David A. Reid completed his Masters degree at Concordia University in Montreal in 1992 under the supervision of Dr. Anna Sierpinska. His doctoral dissertation "The Need to Prove" was completed in 1995 under the supervision of Dr. Tom Keiren at the University of Alberta. He has held professorial positions at Memorial University of Newfoundland (as an assistant professor), at Acadia University (ultimately as a full professor and Director of the School of Education) and at the University of Bremen.
2019- Professor – University of Agder – Norway
2011-2019 Lecturer and Honorary Professor – University of Bremen – Germany
2011 Professor – Acadia University – Canada
2004-2011 Associate Professor – Acadia University – Canada
1998-2004 Assistant Professor – Acadia University – Canada
1995-1998 Assistant Professor – Memorial University of Newfoundland – Canada