Rebecca Seah

Rebecca is a Mathematics Education lecturer in RMIT's School of Education.

Rebecca has extensive teaching experience in the field of mathematics and special education. At Griffith University (Gold Coast and Mt Gravatt Campus), she taught geometry, measurement, probability and statistics in the undergraduate program. She also supervised a fourth-year course on diagnosis and intervention for mathematics difficulties/disabilities. At University of Southern Queensland, she conducted face-to-face and online numeracy courses for students enrolling in a teaching degree.

Prior to joining higher education, she worked in a variety of educational settings including special schools, early intervention programs for children with autism, early childhood education, and a training workshop for people with special needs. She also worked in an inclusive setting at the high-school level in Brisbane for seven years where she developed and taught an integrated curriculum (English, History, Mathematics, Science) for the middle school with a team of teachers. She served as Acting Head of Special Education Services in 2009. She then pursued a doctorate study where she investigated teacher professional knowledge and teaching mathematics to students with learning difficulties and disabilities.

Rebecca was part of the research team in Reframing Mathematical Futures II: Building a Learning and Teaching Resource to Enhance Mathematical Reasoning in Years 7 to 10, an Australian Mathematics and Science Partnership Program (AMSPP) Competitive Grant Project (2014–2018). Her role is to investigate and develop tasks that promote geometric reasoning among teachers and students of Year 7 to 10. In 2016, her work in the area of spatial and geometric reasoning was recognised and she was awarded the Research Impact Award by RMIT University. Together with her team, she was further awarded the Beth Southwell Practical Implications Award by the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia in 2018.

Industry Experience:
Reviewer for Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Mathematics Education Research Journal, and Australian Mathematics Education Journal, Regular presenter at international and national conferences for researchers and teachers