Minna Hannula-Sormunen
Professor
mimarha@utu.fi +358 29 450 3394 +358 50 337 8740 Assistentinkatu 5 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6106-2569 |
Areas of expertise
Early mathematical development and digital learning environments supporting it
Spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) and quantitative relations (SFOR)
Mathematics learning and instruction at school age
Supporting mathematics teaching
Early mathematical development and digital learning environments supporting it
Spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) and quantitative relations (SFOR)
Mathematics learning and instruction at school age
Supporting mathematics teaching
Research community or research topic
Research Group for Mathematics Teaching and Learning in University of Turku, Finland See for more information: https://sites.utu.fi/mathlearn/
Research Group for Mathematics Teaching and Learning in University of Turku, Finland See for more information: https://sites.utu.fi/mathlearn/
Publications 
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- When “one, two, three” gains ordinal meaning: Investigating the development of numerical ordering skills in 3- to 5-year-old children. (2026)
- Developmental Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Analyzing teachers’ scripts from teachers’ reflections after they tried to encourage students’ flexible mathematical thinking (2025)
- Frontline learning research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Asiantuntijuuden kehittyminen varhaiskasvatuksen lukuhetkien kysymys–vastaus-vuorovaikutuksessa (2025)
- Ammattikasvatuksen Aikakauskirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Does multiplication always make bigger? Exploring individual differences in NanoRoboMath game play (2025)
- Learning and Individual Differences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Eye movements and spontaneous focusing on numerosity among five-year-old children (2025)
- Proceedings of the PME Conference
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - The relationship between grade nine math national exam results, prior skills, and an interest in math (2025)
- Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri. Estonian Journal of Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - When anxiety grows with knowledge: The role of the natural number bias (2025)
- Journal of Numerical Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Attenuated processing of task‐irrelevant speech and other auditory stimuli: fMRI evidence from arithmetic tasks (2024)
- European Journal of Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Promoting 5th Grade Students’ Spontaneous Focusing on Quantitative Relations (2024)
- Journal of Experimental Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Spontaneous focusing on numerical order and numerical skills of 3-to 4-year-old children (2024)
- Educational Studies in Mathematics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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