Nancy C. Jordan is Professor of Education at the University of Delaware. Since 1999 she has been principal investigator of NICHD funded research on children's mathematics difficulties and disabilities. In 2008, she received a 5-year grant from NICHD to develop a number sense intervention for kindergartners at risk for mathematics difficulties. She is the author or co-author of many articles in mathematics learning difficulties and most recently has published articles in Child Development, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Developmental Science, Developmental Psychology, and Journal of Educational Psychology. Her work focuses on early prediction and prevention of mathematics difficulties and connections between mathematics and reading difficulties. Professor Jordan holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Iowa, where she was awarded Phi Beta Kappa, and a Masters degree from Northwestern University. She received her doctoral degree in education from Harvard University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she taught elementary school children with special needs. Recently, Professor Jordan served on the Committee on Early Childhood Mathematics of the National Research Council of the National Academies.

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