Nancy C. Jordan

Nancy C. Jordan is Dean Family Endowed Chair and Professor of Education (Learning Sciences) at the University of Delaware.  Currently, she is PI on several  grants from the U.S. Dept. of Education Institure for Education Sciences (IES):  Screening for Early Number Sense and Developing Fraction Sense in Children with or at Risk for Math Difficulties.  In 2020, she also received a 4-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study early fraction learning and a 5-year grant from IES to scale up her fraction sense intervention.  She is author or co-author of many articles in children’s math and has recently published articles in Child Development, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Cognitive Development, Developmental Science, Developmental Psychology, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, and School Psychology Review. Dr. Jordan received her doctoral degree from Harvard University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago.   Based on her research, she developed a teacher-friendly kindergarten number sense screener and an intervention program for high-risk children (Brookes Publishing). She recently  revised and extended the number sense screener from Pre-K through first grade.  Professor Jordan served on the Committee on Early Childhood Mathematics of the National Research Council of the National Academies and on the panel of IES practice guides on teaching math to young children and math learning disabilities.  She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences and the American Educational Research Assocation.  In 2020, she received the Kauffman-Hallahan-Pullen Research Award from the Council for Exceptional Children.