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There is more than one way to solve a problem: Evaluating a learning environment that supports the development of children's multiplication skills (1998)
Journal Article
Ainsworth, S., Wood, D., & O'Malley, C. (1998). There is more than one way to solve a problem: Evaluating a learning environment that supports the development of children's multiplication skills. Learning and Instruction, 8(2), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0959-4752%2897%2900013-3

Interpretation of the nature of mathematical understanding has changed recently. These changes have prompted calls for different instructional methods in the primary classroom. COPPERS is a mathematical learning environment which explores how such go... Read More about There is more than one way to solve a problem: Evaluating a learning environment that supports the development of children's multiplication skills.

On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model (1995)
Journal Article
Wood, D., Wood, H., Ainsworth, S., & O’Malley, C. (1995). On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model. Cognition and Instruction, 13(4), 565-581. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci1304_7

Eight pairs of girls and 8 pairs of boys at each of three age groups (3, 5, and 7 years) took part in a three-phase investigation. One child in each pair was taught how to assemble a construction task by a computer-assisted tutoring system. That chil... Read More about On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model.