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Number sense is a key indicator of future math success. Now there's a quick, reliable, and affordable way to screen early numerical competencies and identify students at risk for later math struggles.
About the author
Nancy C. Jordan is Principal Investigator of the Number Sense Intervention Project (funded by the
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) as well as the Center for Improving Learning of Fractions (funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences). She is author or coauthor of many articles in mathematics learning difficulties and has recently published articles in
Child Development, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Developmental Science, Developmental Psychology, and
Journal of Educational Psychology. Dr. Jordan holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa, where she was awarded Phi Beta Kappa, and a master's degree from Northwestern University. She received her doctoral degree in education from Harvard University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she taught elementary school children with special needs. Dr. Jordan served on the Committee on Early Childhood Mathematics of the National Research Council of the National Academies.
Joseph J. Glutting, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. He is a quantitative psychologist. Dr. Glutting specializes in applied multivariate statistics and test construction. He developed four nationally standardized measures of intelligence, occupational interest, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Glutting's research has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Institutes of Health. He has published more than 100 juried journal articles and book chapters.
Nancy Dyson has been in education for more than 30 years as both a teacher and the director of a parent cooperative school. She recently completed her doctoral degree in education at the University of Delaware with a research focus on students struggling with mathematics.
Summary
Number sense is a key indicator of future math success. Now there's a quick, reliable, and affordable way to screen early numerical competencies and identify students at risk for later math struggles.
