Category Archives: Research

‘Smart’ versus ‘doing great’

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New research shows that students who are known for being smart have a tendency to be more dishonest and cheat!

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More ways to learn the numbers 1-10

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Some great research just got published:

In this paper, we present a way of describing variation in young children’s learning of elementary arithmetic within the number range 1–10. Our aim is to reveal what is to be learnt and how it might be learnt by means of discerning particular aspects of numbers. The Variation theory of learning informs the analysis of 2184 observations of 4- to 7-year-olds solving arithmetic tasks, placing the focus on what constitutes the ways of experiencing numbers that were observed among these children

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Adding a pathway to mathematical success

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According to the Pathways to Mathematics model [LeFevre et al. (2010), Child Development, Vol. 81, pp. 1753–1767], children’s cognitive skills in three domains—linguistic, attentional, and quantitative—predict concurrent and future mathematics achievement. We extended this model to include an additional cognitive skill, patterning, as measured by a non-numeric repeating patterning task.

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Base ten blocks connected with abstract numbers

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In this new study children who exhibited knowledge of the connections between the base-ten-blocks and written number symbols had higher posttest and transfer test scores relative to children who did not exhibit knowledge of these connections.

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Part Part Whole and finger patterns

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Findings from a study of 5-to-6-year-old children’s ways of structuring part-part-whole relations using finger patterns.

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