External Representations
Social Mediation
Transfer
Learning versus Development
Dynamic Assessment
Actions and Symbols
Earlier Forms of Knowledge
Neuroscience and Education


Taylor Martin
Na'ilah Nasir
Kristen Pilner
Aisha Lowe
Daniel Schwartz
Julie Heiser
Amanda Mathias

Bruce McCandliss
Joyce Moore

Fostering mathematical thinking in middle school students: Lessons from research.  In The nature of mathematical thinking.

Aligning everyday and mathematical reasoning: The case of sampling assumptions. In Reflections on Statistics: Agendas for learning, teaching and assessment in K-12

The role of mathematics in explaining the material world: Mental models for proportional reasoning. Cognitive Science

Why people are not like marbles in an urn: An effect of context on statistical reasoning. Applied Cognitive Psychology

Individual cognitive structuring and the sociocultural context: Strategy shifts in the game of dominoes In review.

Distributing to learn: The manipulation of the physical environment in the development of the ratio concept. In review

How mathematics propels the development of physical knowledge. In review.


How external representations propel development and future learning.
NSF - BCS Program 2002 - 2005

The Biological Basis of Alphanumeric Learning.
NSF ROLE: 2004-2007