Dr Katie Makar, PhD, MA, GradDip Ed, BA    Senior Lecturer

	Biography

Inquiry-based teaching practices in mathematics education; Statistical reasoning and informal inference;

Dr Katie Makar is a senior lecturer in mathematics education at the University of Queensland. Her research looks at teaching of mathematics through inquiry. She is also known internationally for her work on statistical reasoning and informal statistical inference at the primary school level. She has done consulting work on teaching with inquiry, reasoning in chance and data, rubrics for open-ended tasks, and teacher professional standards. Her teaching includes courses in mathematics education, interdisciplinary curriculum, teacher professionalism, and statistics. Previously, she taught secondary mathematics for fifteen years in the US and Asia before finishing her PhD in 2004.

	Keywords
	Education: EDUCATION, Education: Mathematics Education, Education: Teacher Education, Education: Middle School Education, Education: Classroom Instruction