She was a professor emerita of mathematics and statistics at Concordia University.
[3] Sierpińska was born in Wrocław in 1947, and lived internationally with her family as a child.
[2] She earned a master's degree in 1970 from the University of Warsaw, specializing in commutative algebra.
She completed her Ph.D. in mathematics education in 1984 at the Higher School of Pedagogy, Cracow.
[5] In 2006, Luleå University of Technology in Sweden gave Sierpińska an honorary doctorate.