Many researchers agree that children's difficulty with fraction and rational numbers is
associated with their whole number knowledge, but they disagree on the origin of the whole …

Since the time of Piaget, researchers have been keenly interested in how students view the
concepts of science, mathematics, and, more recently, programming. In their annual review …

The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research
into how young children learn mathematics and how best to develop foundational …

First Published in 1995. In the past decade or two, the most important theoretical perspective
to emerge in mathematics education has been that of constructivism. This burst onto the …

This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from
birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives. At the …

The existence of objective knowledge and the possibility of communicating it by means of
language have traditionally been taken for granted by educators. Recent developments in …

Learn how the brain processes mathematical concepts and why some students develop
math anxiety! David A. Sousa discusses the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics …

Cognition and learning are central concepts in educational psychology. Research on these
topics has been productive both for advancing fundamental scientific understanding and for …

For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most
active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much …

Currently, considerable debate focuses on whether mind is located in the head or in the
individual-in-social-action, and whether development is cognitive self-organization or …