Dr Charis Voutsina

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Internal extension	22756
Email	cv@soton.ac.uk
Room number	32/2091

Expertise / Academic Interests

Arithmetical problem solving
Children's early mathematical development
Mathematics education

SOE Research Centre Membership

Pedagogy and Curriculum

Taught Courses

1. Primary PGCE

Principal Publications

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Significant Publications

Voutsina, C., and Jones, K. (2004), Studying Change Processes in Primary School Arithmetic Problem Solving: issues in combining methodologies. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 24(3), 57-62.

Voutsina, C., and Jones, K. (2003), Moving beyond success: changes in young children’s successful problem solving behaviour. In Gagatsis, A. and Papastavridis, S. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 3d Mediterranean Conference in Mathematics Education (pp. 717-724). Athens. Greece.

Voutsina, C. and Jones, K. (2001), The Micro-development of Young Children's Problem Solving Strategies when Tackling Addition Tasks, Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, vol 4, 391-398.

Book Chapters

Voutsina, Chronoula and Ismail, Qaima (2007) Issues in identifying children with specific arithmetic difficulties through standardised testing: a critical discussion of different cases. In, Küchemann, D. (ed.) Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics. UK, British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 84-89.

Journal Articles

Voutsina, C. and Jones, K. (2000), Changes in Young Children's Strategies when Solving Addition Tasks. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 20(3), 97-102.

Voutsina, C., and Jones, K. (2005), The Process of Knowledge Redescription as an Underlying Mechanism in the Development of Children’s Problem-solving Strategies: an example from arithmetic. 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) 2005.

Voutsina, C., and Jones, K. (2005), Children Building on Success: mathematical problem solving in the early years. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association conference, University of Glamorgan, September 2005.

Funded Research

Children Moving Beyond Initial Success in Problem Solving
The nature of the conceptual understanding of single-digit addition held by children with mathematics difficulties and children identified as being at risk of dyscalculia