Heather Douglas has a B.Sc. (Honours) in Chemistry from the University of Western Ontario and graduated with a B.Ed. in 2004 from the University of Ottawa. For the past nine years, she has been working as an elementary school teacher in the Upper Canada District School Board. Heather continues to work as an occasional teacher while pursuing her Master’s of Cognitive Science. Her research focuses on facilitating the development of early numeracy skills and enhancing long-term memory and the retrieval of math facts.