Carolyn Kieran is a Canadian mathematics educator known for her studies of how students learn algebra.
She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
[1] Kieran has bachelor's degrees from Marianopolis College and the Université de Montréal, a master's degree from Concordia University, and a doctorate from McGill University.
She joined the mathematics department at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1983 and became a full professor there in 1991.
[1] Kieran is a co-author, with J. Pang, D. Schifter, and S. F. Ng, of Early Algebra: Research into its Nature, its Learning, its Teaching (Springer Open, 2016).