Dr. Robert SieglerEDCI 6304Jeff Blackman

Who is he?Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive

Psychology at Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearches children’s thinkingOver 200 articlesFive booksNational Academy of Education (2010)Headed the Fractions Practice Guide Panel

for the U.S. Department of Education (2009 – 2010)

American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (2005)

BackgroundBorn in Chicago (1949)Original interests: History and

EconomicsUniversity of IllinoisGrad School and PhD at SUNY

Stonybrook1974 – Carnegie Mellon

University (Assistant Professor)

Why you should careIf you are a parent…If you are a teacher…

Siegler vs. Piaget

Overlapping Waves Model

Board Games!

What other board games?“Monopoly …requires a lot of mental addition.”

“Versions of Dominos in which the attachment requires the displayed number of dots or that plus a multiple of 5 (e.g., if two dots are showing, the dot that attaches could have 2, 7, or 12) seems like another good choice.”

--Bob Siegler

Questions?

Photo CreditsSlide 1: Picture of Robert Siegler. From the Robert Siegler home page at http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/index.html

Slide 4: Picture 1 from Developing effective fractions instruction for kindergarten through 8th grade: A practice guide - Retrieved from whatworks.ed.gov/publications/practiceguides

Slide 4: Picture 2 – Microsoft Office Clipart

Slide 5: Piaget - from http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/jean-piaget

Slide 5: Siegler – from http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/AmPsychBio.pdf

Slide 6: Overlapping Waves Model - from http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/AmerPsy05.pdf

Slide 7: Number game - from http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/sieg-cdper09.pdf

Slide 7: Dominoes – from Microsoft Clipart

Slide 8: Monopoly – from http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/en_US/shop/details.cfm?R=8EE05CCF-6D40-1014-8BF0-9EFBF894F9D4:en_US

Slide 8: Chutes and Ladders – from http://www.hasbro.com/shop/details.cfm?R=8EC0A8E0-6D40-1014-8BF0-9EFBF894F9D4:en_US

References Carnegie Mellon University (nd). Robert S. Siegler. Retrieved July 16, 2012, from

http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/

Carnegie Mellon University, & Siegler, R. S. (2012, June 7). Early Knowledge of Fractions and Long Division Predicts Long-Term Math Success [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YSj0mmjwBM&feature=player_embedded

Siegler, R. S. (2005). Autobiographical Sketch. American Psychologist, 60(8), 767-769.

Siegler, R., Carpenter, T., Fennell, F., Geary, D., Lewis, J., Okamoto, Y., Thompson, L., & Wray, J. (2010). Developing effective fractions instruction for kindergarten through 8th grade: A practice guide (NCEE #2010-4039). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from whatworks.ed.gov/ publications/practiceguides.

Siegler, R. S. (2005). Children's Learning. American Psychologist, 60, 769-778.

Watson, Malcolm. "Theories of Human Development." The Great Courses. Chantilly, VA. 2002. MP3

Siegler, R. S.(2009). Improving the numerical understanding of children from low-income families. Child Development Perspectives, 3, 118-124.

Siegler, Robert S. "Modern Learning Theories and Mathematics." STEM Summit. Irvine, CA. Feb. 2010. Web. 19 July 2012. <http://www.slideshare.net/stemsummit/modern-learning-theories-and-mathematics-education-robert-siegler>.