Patricia Marchand has been an associate professor at the Université de Sherbrooke since 2007. She is responsible for the geometry didactics course in the Baccalauréat en enseignement en adaptation scolaire et sociale program, and has previously taught this course in other Quebec universities and educational training programs. Her doctoral studies focused on a central element of geometry: the development of spatial sense. Her thesis brought together the sports practices that enable this development and those carried out in junior high school mathematics classes. Since then, her research has led her to analyze and propose ways of enriching the teaching of spatial sense and, more generally, of PSGM at primary level, for students in difficulty or in difficult teaching contexts (e.g.: underprivileged environments and multi-level classes).
