{"id":1166,"date":"2026-04-28T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/cmc\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:35:12","slug":"leverhulme-lectures-with-professor-helena-p-osana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/cmc\/2026\/04\/28\/leverhulme-lectures-with-professor-helena-p-osana\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Lectures with Leverhulme Visiting Professor Helena Osana\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Department of Mathematics Education is pleased to host a series of three public lectures with Leverhulme Visiting Professor Helena Osana\u00a0from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helena Osana a Professor of Mathematics Education at Concordia University where she is the Principal Investigator of the Mathematics Teaching and Learning Lab. Her particular research interests are in the area of children’s mathematical development, learning and instruction, and mathematical cognition. You can find more about her work here<\/a>.

All lectures are open to the public and no booking is required. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For further information, please contact the Centre for Mathematical Cognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding One: Units in the Elementary Mathematics Curriculum<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Date: <\/strong>Wednesday 20 May 2026
Time: <\/strong>16:00 \u2013 17:00
Location: <\/strong>Schofield Building, SCH101, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, LE11 3TU<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A unit is what we call \u201cone.\u201d This lecture examines where \u201cone\u201d appears\u2014and often hides\u2014in the elementary mathematics curriculum. It traces how units structure the big ideas in elementary mathematics, including numeration and place value, multidigit arithmetic, multiplication and division, and fractions. The talk highlights how seemingly disparate domains in school mathematics are tied together by unit concepts and how understanding in mathematics is dependent on flexible and relational reasoning about units and \u201coneness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding One<\/strong>: Challenges in Children\u2019s Understanding of Units<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Date: <\/strong>Wednesday 10 June 2026
Time: <\/strong>14:00 \u2013 15:00
Location: <\/strong>Schofield Building, SCH101, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, LE11 3TU<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lecture focuses on children\u2019s understanding of units from early counting to more advanced concepts involving measurement and composite units. It reviews research on how children construct the idea of \u201cone\u201d as both a countable entity and a unit that can be iterated and nested within higher-order structures. Common difficulties are examined, including treating collections of units as wholes, coordinating multiple units, and understanding number as a structure of embedded units. Together, these perspectives provide a nuanced account of why unit concepts are persistently challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporting One: Supporting Children\u2019s Unit Understanding<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Date: <\/strong>Tuesday 7 July 2026
Time: <\/strong>14:00 \u2013 15:00
Location: <\/strong>Schofield Building, SCH101, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, LE11 3TU<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lecture explores how learning environments and instructional approaches might support the development of robust unit understanding in children. The lecture will describe what is known about how environmental factors, such as visual representations and narrative, may play a role in children\u2019s interpretation of \u201coneness\u201d and in coordinating groups of discrete elements into structured, countable units. Promising early evidence will be presented on how to support children\u2019s learning of embedded units in base-ten through instruction that explicitly foregrounds unit structure and supports analogical mapping across representations. Implications for curriculum design and classroom practice will be addressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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