Rebecca Bull is a Professor in the Macquarie School of Education, Macquarie University.
Rebecca’s research is inter-disciplinary in nature, drawing on methodology, theory, and practice in the fields of education, cognitive science, and psychology. In the area of early childhood development, Rebecca is interested in how young children think about number and quantity, and how these basic skills (often referred to as number sense) support growth in mathematical skills.
Rebecca’s research also looks at the important environments in which children are learning and developing – the home environment and the classroom. This has included a focus on the informal numeracy interactions that may happen between children and parents, as well as the pedagogical approaches to numeracy that educators use in day care environments, and the quality of educator-child interactions. Research findings from these studies have been used to examine early risk indicators of later mathematical difficulties and have informed the development and implementation of classroom-based intervention.
