Laurie Rubel

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics Education in the Faculty of Education of the University of Haifa.

My primary research interests focus on teacher education and in particular, sociocultural contexts of teaching and learning mathematics. I use equity lenses to study areas like language and culture in mathematics education, mathematical thinking in and out of school, real-world contexts in the teaching of mathematics, gender and mathematics teaching and learning, data science education, and teaching mathematics for spatial justice.

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Laurie Rubel

Recent publications:


Lim, V.Y., Peralta, L.M.M., Rubel, L.H. et al. Keeping pace with innovations in data visualizations: A commentary for mathematics education in times of crisis. ZDM Mathematics Education (2022).

Kahn, J. B., Peralta, L. M., Rubel, L. H., Lim, V. Y., Jiang, S., & Herbel-Eisenmann, B. (2022). Notice, Wonder, Feel, Act, and Reimagine as a path toward social justice in data science education. Educational Technology & Society, 25(4).

Rubel, L., Herbel-Eisenmann, B., Peralta, M.L., Lim, V., Jiang, S., Kahn, J. (2022). Intersectional feminism to reenvision mathematical literacies & precarity. Research in Mathematics Education, 24(2), 224-248.


Rubel, L., Ayalon, M. & Shahbari, J. (2022). Sequencing & selecting solutions in a gendered world. Mathematical Thinking & Learning.


Ayalon, M. & Rubel, L. (2022). Selecting and sequencing for a whole-class discussion: Teachers’ considerations. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 6.

Rubel, L., Nicol, C. & Chronaki, A. (2021). A critical mathematics perspective on reading data visualizations: reimagining through reformatting, reframing, and renarrating. Educational Studies in Mathematics.

Rubel, L. & McCloskey, A. (2021). Contextualization of mathematics: Which and whose world? Educational Studies in Mathematics, 107, 383-404.

Rubel, L. & Nicol, C. (2020). The power of place: Spatializing the social in critical mathematics education. Mathematical Thinking & Learning, 22(3), 173–194.

Rubel, L. & Ehrenfeld, N. (2020). Palestinian/Arab Israeli women’s experiences in mathematics education: An intersectional analysis. International Journal of Educational Research, 102.


Department of Mathematics Education

Faculty of Education

University of Haifa

199 Aba Khoushy Ave., Mount Carmel, Haifa, 3498838, Israel

Room 513, Education and Sciences Building

lrubel@edu.haifa.ac.il