Lorna Earle
Senior Lecturer
About
Lorna is a senior lecturer in Primary Education. She specialises in mathematics, teaching this on both the undergraduate and postgraduate ITE routes and the Education Studies degree. Lorna coordinates the undergraduate mathematics ITE provision. Lorna also teaches on Professional Studies, STEM, and wider curriculum modules and acts as an academic advisor and link tutor to students on undergraduate and postgraduate ITE routes.
Prior to joining the university, Lorna was the mathematics coordinator and a class teacher at a partnership school. Her role included developing curriculum provision and undertaking bespoke research projects for the school.
Lorna is qualified to teach both the primary and secondary age ranges. She has always found this very useful when considering the needs of primary school pupils transitioning to secondary school.
Professional:
BA(Hons) PGCert MSc FHEA
Publications
Earle, L. and Parkes, S. (2023) Strong Foundations in Early Mathematics. SAGE: London.
Parkes, S. and Earle, L. (2022) Multiplication Facts – Practice Activities. ATM: Derby.
Earle, L. and Wilkinson, D. What matters in planning? In Carden, C. (2022) Primary Teaching (2E). London: Sage Publications.
Consultant for Hallahan, G. (2021) What’s the best way to teach times tables? TES magazine.
Rickard, C. and Earle, L. (2019) Learning times-tables facts versus learning about times tables. Mathematics Teaching, 265, pp14-17.
Rickard, C. and Earle, L. (2018) Times tables: Children learning about multiplication facts. BSRLM Proceedings online, 38(3).
Earle, L. and Wilkinson, D. How do you plan effective learning episodes for children? In Carden, C. (2018) Primary Teaching. London: Sage Publications.
Rickard, C. and Earle, L. (2018) Division: supporting understanding of formal written methods. Mathematics Teaching, 261, pp21-13.
Earle, L. and Rickard, C. (2017) Formal methods for division: Evaluating the benefits of pre-teaching mathematics using a ‘flipped classroom’ approach. BSRLM Proceedings online, 37 (2).
Research Interests
Lorna’s research interests include focusing on the importance of developing conceptual understanding to support formal methods in mathematics and the effective teaching and learning of times tables.
Research Output
Articles
Nur, M. G., Akkoç, H., Gülbağcı-Dede, H., Yazıcı, B., Ankers, S., Barichello, L., Guimarães, R. S., Black, B., Brown, J., Burfitt, J., Cai, H., Zhang, J., Clarke, K., Clarke, L., Curtis, F., Dimitriadi, Y., Giusta, M. D., Razzu, G., Duah, F., Earle, L., Rickard, C., Ghergu, M., Griffiths, B. J., Helliwell, T., Hewitt, D., Coles, A., Homer, M., Mathieson, R., Banner, I., Tasara, I., Ingram, J., Andrews, N., Pitt, A., Küchemann, D., Lewis, M., Rauch, C. J., De Asis, M., Leung, A., Rostovtseva, T., Walker, S., Rogers, L., Pope, S., Sharkey, R., Sharma, J., Connor, D., Stacey, J., Trubridge, N., Graham, T., Wang, P. and Zhang, J. (2017) Proceedings of the Day Conferences. Research in Mathematics Education, 19 (3). pp. 321-330. ISSN 1754-0178 10.1080/14794802.2017.1391526
Earle, L. and Rickard, C. (2017) Formal methods for division: Evaluating the benefits of pre-teaching mathematics using a ‘flipped classroom’ approach. BSRLM Proceedings online, 37 (2).
Conference or Workshop Items
Rickard, C. and Earle, L. (2018) Times tables: Children learning about multiplication facts. In: British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 10 Nov 2018, King's College, London.
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