The University of California, San Diego will conduct a multi-year, multi-site collaborative research project on early childhood numeracy development under a $1.165 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The research will involve over 130 sites testing more than 3,000 children ages 2 to 5 years old across the United States and 27 other countries. Two foundational studies will examine how young children perceive and learn about...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research project investigating the conceptual foundations of early number development in toddlers and preschool-aged children. The $546,968 award to Trustees of Indiana University will fund two foundational studies examining how young children perceive quantity, learn number words, and track small groups of objects, as well as...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $554,710 project grant to Trustees of Boston College under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct collaborative research on early number development from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2026. The research will involve over 3,000 children aged 2 to 5 years old across 28 U.S. states and 27 countries to investigate how toddlers and preschoolers perceive, reason about, and communicate numbers. Two foundational studies will examine number perception...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $937,260 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to study how multi-digit number names and written symbols guide early elementary students' attention, memory, and place value learning. Over three years from July 2022 to June 2025, the University will conduct three experimental studies with kindergarteners using eye-tracking technology, assessments of students' place value knowledge, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund research to investigate how to meaningfully incorporate playful elements into the teaching of foundational secondary and undergraduate mathematics topics, such as algebra and calculus. The $341,104 award to the Regents of the University of Idaho, doing business as the University of Idaho, will examine the potential learning and enjoyment benefits for students when...
This $298,906 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) will fund a three-year exploratory study on children's multiplicative reasoning strategies for multi-digit multiplication and division problems. The key activities and expected products include: Examining and documenting the range of strategies used by 4th-6th grade students to solve multi-digit multiplication and division tasks. This...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $430,572 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to characterize and foster playful mathematics for undergraduate and high school learning. The project will investigate how to meaningfully incorporate playful elements into the foundational secondary and undergraduate mathematics topics of algebra and calculus, and examine the potential learning and...
This federal Project Grant award of $845,993.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324), supports a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of the Numbershire Level K gaming intervention for improving math outcomes for students with or at risk for mathematics learning disabilities. The primary awardee, Trustees of Boston University, will conduct the study in partnership with sub-awardees...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $809,155 project grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a game-based learning environment and conduct research and evaluation from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to improve probability education for high school students by designing artificial intelligence problem-solving activities within a game. Students will learn probability concepts while exploring AI algorithms...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,098,240 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The purpose of this five-year project, running from May 2024 to April 2029, is to advance the understanding of the relationship between brain development and the acquisition of numeracy skills in early childhood. The project will use a combination of electrophysiological (ERP) and optical (fNIRS) brain imaging techniques to longitudinally track...