Ms
Mary
Kingston
Academic biography
Dr Mary Kingston is an Assistant Professor in the School of STEM Education, Innovation and Global Studies, lecturing in the area of mathematics education. She has responsibility for teaching across a range of modules in the school relating to mathematics education.
Mary received her Bachelor of Education degree from St. Patrick’s College in 2012. In 2019, she completed the Master of Education programme in Dublin City University, specialising in mathematics education. Her PhD focused on the topic of young children’s probabilistic thinking and this study was supervised by Dr Aisling Twohill (DCU), Dr Siún Nic Mhuirí (DCU) and Professor Aisling Leavy (MIC). She developed frameworks of growth points that describe the development of probabilistic thinking in relation to the constructs of probability of an event, probability comparison and sample space. Mary is a member of the Centre for the Advancement STEM Teaching and Learning (CASTeL). Prior to joining DCU Institute of Education, Mary worked as a primary teacher in North Dublin.
Research interests
Mary’s main research interests are in the areas of:Young children’s probabilistic thinking prior to receiving formal probabilistic instructionThe development of young children’s mathematical thinkingTask-based group interviews as an assessment tool in the primary mathematics classroomStorybooks as a tool for mathematics teaching and learning Pre-service teachers' views of mathematics teaching and learning