Martha W. Alibali

University of Wisconsin–Madison — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

57h-index15.3kcitations246works1.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques(78), Hearing Impairment and Communication(78), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills(66), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(40), Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes(37)

Publications246 total

Is More Gamification Better? Evaluating Playful Interactions and Narratives for Algebra Learning
Lecture notes in computer science·2025
Is More Gamification Better? Evaluating Playful Interactions and Narratives for Algebra Learning
2025Open Access
Developing Simple Card Games to Promote Children’s Informal Science Learning
2025Open Access
Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills?
Journal of Cognition and Development·2025
Numbers skyrocket in English but increase in Spanish: metaphoric conceptualization and manner expression in translations
Language and Cognition·2025Open Access
Action, Attention, and Multimodal Scaffolding
2024
Teachers’ Gestures and How They Matter
Topics in Cognitive Science·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
A bird’s-eye view of research practices in mathematical cognition, learning, and instruction: Reimagining the status quo
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Is zero more than nothing? Relations between concepts of zero and integer understanding
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·2024
How do people compare visualizations of fraction magnitudes? Evidence from adults’ and children’s eye movements with continuous and discretized tape diagrams
The Journal of Mathematical Behavior·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Is zero more than nothing? Relations between concepts of zero and integer understanding
2024Open Access
Gesture in reasoning
2024
Gestures in Cognition: Actions that Bridge the Mind and the World
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2024
The Role of Visual Representations in Undergraduate Students’ Learning about Genetic Inheritance
Education Sciences·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Deterministic or probabilistic: U.S. children's beliefs about genetic inheritance
Child Development·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
How teachers make connections among ideas in mathematics instruction
Advances in child development and behavior·2024· 1 cited
Weakest link or strongest link?
Gesture·2023· 2 cited
The role of visualizations in adults’ learning about genetic inheritance
2023Open Access
Deterministic or probabilistic: U.S. children’s beliefs about genetic inheritance
2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Linking representations of equality in first-grade mathematics lessons in China
Educational Research for Policy and Practice·2023· 2 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Eric Knuth(10), Nicole M. McNeil(9), Mitchell J. Nathan(8), Susan Goldin‐Meadow(6), Ana C. Stephens(6), Autumn B. Hostetter(5), Sotaro Kita(5), R. Breckinridge Church(4), Matthew Wolfgram(4), Bethany Rittle‐Johnson(3), Robert S. Siegler(3), Julia L. Evans(3), Shanta Hattikudur(3), Noelle M. Crooks(2), Kenneth R. Koedinger(2), Candace Walkington(2), Aaron Weinberg(2), Amanda Young(1), Katharine Graf Estes(1), Jenny R. Saffran(1)