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ROOM CHANGE: Exploring the Mind | When Counting Doesn't Count: The Development of Math Skills in Young Children

When

Monday November 26, 2018: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room

Description

ROOM CHANGE: This event will take place in the 4th Floor Meeting Room.

For decades schools have struggled with how to teach and increase the learning of mathematics in children. It has been the focus of multiple federal programs and funding agency (NSF, NIH, IES, Gates Foundation) initiatives. Even with all of this focus and research dollars, we see very few changes in children increasing their ability in mathematics especially in foundational skills like fractions.

Join Pam Davis-Kean, Professor of Psychology; Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research as she reviews her research over the last few years trying to understand the developmental pathways of math achievement. She will explore both individual characteristics (self-concept) and contextual influences (parenting, socioeconomic status) that may relate to the early development of math skills. Throughout the talk, the issue of whether or not counting is an important skill as children enter into schooling will be discussed as well as how math skills prior to formal schooling predict college attendance.  

Dr. Davis-Kean is Professor of Psychology (Developmental) at the University of Michigan where her research focuses on the various pathways that the socio-economic status (SES) of parents relates to the cognitive/achievement outcomes of their children, specifically math achievement. Her primary focus is on parental educational attainment and how it can influence the development of the home environment throughout childhood, adolescence, and the transition to adulthood.

This program is part of the "Exploring the Mind" series and is a partnership with The University of Michigan Department of Psychology.