Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
ABSTRACT
Successful mathematical learning requires the integration of conceptual understanding, procedural skill, and number fact knowledge. But many children struggle with learning number facts and particularly the multiplication tables. One reason for this may be the need to resolve interference between facts. Models of number fact learning propose that this requires inhibitory control, but we lack empirical evidence for this and particularly how interference emerges when learning new facts. I will present studies with adults and children that evidence the need for inhibitory control, examine interference during the learning of new facts, and consider the impact of different types of classroom practice.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Camilla Gilmore is Professor of Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University. She is interested in understanding how we acquire and process mathematical ideas and what this means for mathematics education. She completed her doctorate in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford before working as a postdoc at Harvard University. She then spent five years as a Research Fellow in the Learning Sciences Research Institute at The University of Nottingham before joining Loughborough in 2011. She is now Co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Cognition – funded by Research England – and leads the ESRC-funded Centre for Early Mathematics Learning.
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Meeting ID: 842 1870 1589
ID: 536931
Date:
12 May 2025, 14:00 (Monday, 17th week, Hilary 2025)
Venue:
New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details:
Seminar 2nd floor
Speaker:
Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
Organising department:
Department of Experimental Psychology
Organiser:
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
hod.office@psy.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Anne-Marie Honeyman-Tafa
