Galina Dobrynina
Clinical Associate Professor (Retired)
Dr. Galina Dobrynina is a clinical associate professor (retired) at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her main interest is in developing innovative programs of teaching mathematics to future teachers.
Dobrynina is well known for her talks at numerous national and international conferences. She has conducted professional workshops and mathematics content summer institutes for in-service and preservice teachers. She was a founding board member of Massachusetts Mathematics Association of Teacher Educators (MassMATE). During sabbatical leave in 2008-2009, she investigated how operations with rational numbers were taught in mathematics curricula in Singapore, Russia, Israel, and the US. She presented research findings at the ATMIM conference in 2011.
She conducted her dissertation research with fourth, fifth, and sixth graders and investigated algebraic reasoning processes of students who solved two- and three-variable problems. The results of her scholarly work were published in Psychology of Mathematics education (PME) Conference Proceedings (2001, 2002, and 2005). She is a co-author of “Mathematics: Developing Curious Students” in Inquiry Across Curriculum (Corwin Press, 2005).
Education
EdD, Mathematics Education, Boston University
MAT, Mathematics and English, Moscow Pedagogical University
Courses
Research
Selected Publications
Integrating Inquiry Across Curriculums
Algebraic Reasoning of Young Students and Preservice Elementary Teachers
Learning Logs: A Classroom Practice for Enhancing Scientific Sense Making
Selected Presentations
Authentic Assessment Model for Instructional Practices. Sault Lake City, UT, NCSM, April 2008
Impact of Three-semester Sequence of Mathematical Content Courses on Knowledge of Pre-service Teachers. Monterrey, Mexico, ICME 11, July 2008
Geometric and Algebraic Reasoning through Pattern Generalization. Indianapolis, IN, NCTM annual meeting, April 2011
Operations with fractions in mathematics curricula in Singapore, Russia and the US. Marlborough, MA, ATMIM, March 2011