Claudine Gervais holds a bachelor's degree in preschool and elementary education. She taught all levels of primary school for 15 years before becoming an elementary school math consultant in 2007, at the Centre de services scolaires des Grandes-Seigneuries. Aware of teachers' need for tools to support students in the analysis of written problems, and given the success of the balanced approach to problems with additive structure, it was without hesitation that she pursued her collaboration with researchers Savard and Polotskaia to develop, test and publish these new activities supporting the development of students' multiplicative thinking.
