Gabrielle Cayton-Hodges

Cooney Fellow

Gabrielle.Cayton-Hodges@sesameworkshop.org

Dr. Cayton-Hodges received her Ph.D. in Mathematics, Science, Technology, and Engineering (MSTE) Education at Tufts University in 2009. Her dissertation, entitled Young Children’s External Representations of Number, focused on four- through eight-year-olds’ understandings of properties of the number system as demonstrated through various methods of external representation. The inspiration for Gabrielle’s work stems from her work as an undergraduate at MIT in Brain and Cognitive Sciences where she studied three-year-olds’ acquisition of the principle of mutual exclusivity of numbers. Gabrielle is also a member of a number of collaborations with Tufts University and TERC including the Early Algebra Project and the Inquiry Project, both focusing on learning and instruction with third through fifth graders in the Boston area.