Professor Jill Adler is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Education in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand. She held the SARChI Mathematics Education Chair at the University of the Witwatersrand, which focuses on research and development in secondary mathematics education from 2010-2019. Prof Adler has spearheaded several large-scale teacher development projects, the most recent, within the Chair ambit, begun in 2009, is called the Wits Maths Connect Secondary Project. This work builds on her research on teaching in multilingual classrooms and teacher professional development. She is a Visiting Professor of Mathematics Education at King’s College London, United Kingdom, and President of the International Commission for Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) 2017-2020. She is the recipient of numerous awards, the most significant of which is the 2012 Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Gold Medal for Science in the Service of Society, and the 2015 ICMI Freudenthal Medal. View profile for Prof Adler in: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2017). Legends of South African Science. [Online] Available at: DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2016/0012
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