Thank you for podcasting our research on Snowballing Effects of Early Numeracy #soundcloud soundcloud.com/michael-ralph-…

Researching and teaching writing✍️ Some recent pics📷

Do you want your students to engage in math writing? Check out this paper in which we reviewed math-writing studies. TLDR? Math writing instruction is important, and it needs to focus on both math and writing. buff.ly/4aX3gFp

At last, SSSR is having an event for practitioners! If you are an educator or SLP local to the Calgary area, join us for Practitioner Day: a full day of in-person learning and networking! July 16, 2025! #SSSR2025 Please RT!

Our article is top 10 cited published in CD in 2023. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #TopCitedArticle Wiley in research

In this paper, we reviewed studies that focused on teaching pre-algebraic reasoning to students who experience difficulty with mathematics. What was used most often within the instruction? Use of representations and use of explicit instruction. buff.ly/3Qaordz

Teaching freshmen statistics this quarter to 50 education/psychology majors—things were going well until we hit standard deviation and normal distribution… now confusion is in the air 😅 Any tips or favorite ways to teach these concepts?

The change in US 4th grade math skills by content area on the NAEP What's going on with geometry?

New paper! pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

Great experience at 2025 UC SPEDDR Conference. Glad to see many researchers across UCs are doing special education research🥰 Just got my first 200 citations!🥳

In this study, we reviewed 223 math intervention studies. While many interventions lead to improved math outcomes for students, there is a lot of variability across studies. Read more! buff.ly/4aTTy6X

Writing time✍️

Teaching is mutual healing — I calmed their stats anxiety; they calmed my teaching anxiety.

A fantastic start to Day 4 at #ISB15! Elizabeth Peña delivered an insightful keynote this morning on developmental language disorder in bilingual contexts. 🧠🗣️

2026 PCRC, Long Beach, CA.

What strategy combination works the best for word problem instruction? link.springer.com/10.1007/s10648…

Excited to serve you as incoming editor of Psychological Methods! The (awesome) editorial team and I look forward to receiving your submissions. Fred Oswald, PhD, Psychological Methods apa.org/pubs/highlight… via American Psychological Association

For reading interventions, combine foundational skills with comprehension. Multi-component, knowledge-based approaches are more effective than strategy-oriented ones, creating a synergistic effect instead of cognitive overload. #literacy link.springer.com/10.1007/s10648…

Math anxiety hurts math NOT majorly via the numerical processes, but via the language-guided thinking processes. This anxiety negative effect seems stronger for kids with better verbal skills. Trying the self-talk "don't worry" during testing may actually backfire #MathAnxiety

A meta-analysis on math anxiety reduction. Takeaways: Anxiety-oriented, skill-oriented, and anxiety-skill combo all work. But only skill-oriented and anxiety-skill combo improve math skills. For high-anxiety students, the combo is most effective #JEP #anxiety #math APA Journals