Rate My Professor Kai Fai Ho

Kai Fai Ho is a lecturer in the School of Education at Murdoch University, within the College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education. He holds a PhD and focuses his research on mathematics education, particularly mathematical problem solving, teachers' pedagogies, classroom practices, curriculum development, and the use of technology in mathematics teaching and learning. His work examines how teachers enact problem-solving curricula in primary classrooms, student metacognitive strategies in open-ended problems, and the impact of pedagogies on mathematical problem solving. Ho has explored trends in senior school mathematics enrolments, adaptation of online learning systems for school mathematics, and the role of graphics calculators in education. He has contributed to projects on professional development for teachers to teach mathematics through problem solving and has analyzed classroom talk in relation to problem-solving enactment.

Ho teaches a variety of mathematics education courses at Murdoch University, including EDN564 Mathematics in the Primary Curriculum (up to 2023), EDN542 Teaching Secondary Mathematics (7-10) (up to 2022), EDN507 Mathematics for Years 7-10 Teachers: Number, Algebra & Geometry (2024), EDN562 Numeracy and Learning (up to 2023), EDN110 Mathematics for Teaching (up to 2017), EDN114 Thinking Mathematically (up to 2017), and EDN373/EDN594 Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Schools (2023). His key publications include 'Review of the use of technology in mathematics education' (2015), 'Developing a professional vision of classroom practices of a mathematics teacher: Views from a researcher and a teacher' (2013), 'Teachers’ pedagogies and their impact on students’ mathematical problem solving' (2005), 'Year 11 Advanced Mathematics: Hearing from Students who Buck the Trend' (2010), 'Enactment of Singapore's mathematical problem-solving curriculum in Primary 5 classrooms: case studies of four teachers' practices', 'Students’ Metacognitive Problem-Solving Strategies in Solving Open-ended Problems in Pairs' (2006), and 'Two Grade 5 teachers' enactment of mathematical problem solving and their classroom talk: contrasting approaches'. He served as a reviewer for Issues in Educational Research in 2019 and has 120 citations on ResearchGate.