This is Ting Zhang, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, studying under the supervision of Dr. Ann Anderson. My research addresses how elementary students’ mathematical problem solving develops with robotics activities. Raised by parents with engineering backgrounds in Xi’an, China, I went to business school in Shanghai Jiaotong University, where I obtained my bachelor’s degree in business. I have been heavily involved in designing and teaching robotics programs for more than a decade after I received an MA in education from California State University in 2004. My current research attempts to examine the role of educational robotics as a learning aid within the context of problem-based learning in mathematics.