Professor, dr.philos, dr.scient
Curriculum Vitae
Snorre A. Ostad has degree examination for teachers from a teacher’s training college. Moreover, he is candidatus magisterii, candidatus paedagogiae, and has two doctor degrees (i.e., Doctor Philosophiae and Doctor Scientiarum) from the University of Oslo.
Ostad has been working as teacher in primary schools, in special schools, and in teacher’s training college. His main job is currently professor at the University of Oslo, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate students.
Research Interests
Ostad has published widely on
children’s development of basic number and arithmetic skills. His research
in the area of mathematical development range from cognitive studies of
children at risk for a learning disability to more basic research on the
cognitive and memory systems that contribute to individual differences in
mathematical competencies.
His publications document the obvious interest in applying research in mathematical cognition to issues in mathematics education. To this end, his research include mathematically normal children, children with difficulties in mathematics, blind children as well as deaf children. Currently, he works primarily on developmental characteristics of private (subvocal) speech among mathematically normal and mathematically disabled children.
Research on Difficulties in mathematics
Key-words:
numerical cognition; mathematics learning strategies; strategy development;
strategy learning; learning difficulties; mathematical difficulties;
mathematical disorders; dyscalculia; inner speech; comorbidity mathematical and
language-based difficulties.
Research on Mathematics for blind children
Key-words:
numerical cognition; mental representations; concept development; tactile
representations.
Research on Teaching methods and teaching aids in
mathematics
Key-words: concept learning, strategy learning; diagnostic
methods and aids.