Dr Theodosia Prodromou
Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Qualifications
Ph.D. Education (Mathematics), University of Warwick
M.Sc. Statistics, University of Warwick
B.Sc. Mathematics (Hons), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
DipArt, Thessaloniki
DipTeach (Secondary Mathematics), University of Cyprus
Grad Cert in Higher Education, UNE
Contact
| Email: | theodosia.prodromou@une.edu.au |
| Room: | FEHPS (E7) 213 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3237 (or +61 2 6773 3237 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2445 |
Theodosia lectures in mathematics education
Areas of Teaching
EDME133 Unit Coordinator (T1)
EDME223 Unit Coordinator (T2)
EDME369 Unit Coordinator (T2)
MATH122 Unit Lecturer (T2)
Research interests
The relationship between technology and mathematical thinking
Statistical thinking, Statistics education, including probability
Design Research
Designing for mathematical abstraction
Refereed papers
Prodromou, T. (2011). Making connections between the sample space and the probability of an event. In Ubuz, B. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 35th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Vol. 3, pp. 401-408. Ankara, Turkey: PME.
Prodromou, T. (2011). Students’ emerging inferential reasoning about samples and sampling. In Clark, J.,Kissane, B., Musley, J., Spencer, T. & Thornton, S. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, p. 640-648. Alice Springs, Australia: MERGA36.
Prodromou, T., & Reading, C. (2011). Reasoning about sampling in the context of making informal statistical inferences. Proceedings of the Seventh International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, p. 66-85. Texel island: The Netherlands.
Prodromou, T. (in press). Connecting Experimental and Theoretical Perspectives. Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European society for Research in Mathematics Education, Rzeszow, Poland.
Prodromou, T., & Pratt. D. (2010). Discriminating “Signal¨ and “Noise¨ in Computer-Generated Data. In Pinto, M. F. & Kawasaki, T. F. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 34th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Vol. 4, pp. 57-64, Belo Horizonte: PME.
Prodromou, T., & Reading, C. (2010). Visual representation of the syllabus content about ¡§data¡¨. In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. Retrieved from www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php
Prodromou, T., & Pratt, D. (2009). Student's causal explanations for distribution, In V. Durand-Guerrier, S. Soury-Lavergne and F. Arzarello, (Eds), Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 394-403, Lyons, France.
Prodromou, T., & Pratt, D. (2008). The emergence of stochastic causality. Proceedings of the Thirty Second Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, (Vol. 1, pp. 137-144) Morelia, Mexico.
Prodromou, T. (2007). The co-ordination of distributional thinking. Proceedings of the Fifty six Session of the International Statistical Institute, Lisbon, Portugal.
Prodromou, T. (2007). Making connections between the two perspectives on distribution. In D. Pitta-Pantazi & G. Philippou (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, (pp. 801-810). Larnaca, Cyprus.
Pratt, D., Jones, I., & Prodromou, T. (2006). An elaboration of the design construct of phenomenalisation. 7th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Brazil.
Prodromou, T., & Pratt, D. (2006). The role of causality in the Co-ordination of the two perspectives on distribution within a virtual simulation. Statistics Education Research Journal, 5(2), 69-88.
Prodromou, T. & Pratt, D. (2006). Towards the design of tools for the organization of the stochastic. In M. Bosch (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, (pp. 619-628). Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
Pratt, D. & Prodromou, T. (2005). The emergence of distribution from causal roots, Proceedings of the Fourth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy (CD-ROM). Auckland: New Zealand.
Prodromou, T., & Pratt, D. (2005). Harnessing the causal to illuminate the stochastic. In D. Hewitt & A. Noyes (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth British Congress of Mathematics Education, 25(1), (pp. 136-143). University of Warwick, UK.
Prodromou, T. (2004). Distribution as emergent phenomenon. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 24(1), pp. 49-54.
Theses
Prodromou, T. (2000). Graphical Models: Development of Theory and Applications (in medicine). Unpublished Master's Thesis. University of Warwick, UK.
Prodromou, T. (2008). Connecting Thinking About Distribution. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. University of Warwick, UK.
Selected presentations
Prodromou, T. (2007, Aug.) Connecting Thinking About Distribution (poster). Fifth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy. University of Warwick, UK.
Prodromou, T. (2007, Feb.) Making connections between the two perspectives on distribution. Research Seminar, Institute of Education Department of Mathematics Education, University of Warwick, UK.