Kevin Muldoon
Head of Department
Psychology
Heriot-Watt University
United Kingdom
Biography
Kevin Peter Muldoon is an Head of Department in Psychology at Herioy Watt University, UK.
Research Interest
Kevin’s research interests focus on the development of numerical understanding in the pre-school and early school years. A recent collaboration with Nankai University on numerical estimating has yielded valuable insights into the impact that culturally different teaching practices have on formative numeracy, and ongoing work on differences in early conceptualisations of number between Asia and Europe will further this line of work. Kevin is also particularly interested in an often-overlooked route into numerical understanding: sharing.
Publications
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Muldoon, K., Towse, J., Simms, V., Perra, O., & Menzies, V. (2012). A longitudinal analysis of estimation, counting skills and mathematical ability across the first school year. Developmental Psychology, http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0028240.
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Simms, V., Muldoon, K. & Towse, J. (in press). Plane thinking: Mental representations of number lines. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
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Towse, J., Muldoon, K. & Simms, V. (in press). Figuring out children's number representations: lessons from cross-cultural work. In R. Cohen-Kadosh and A. Dowker (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition.
