Category Archives: Research

What is numeracy ?

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All agree that numeracy is a solid predictor for later arithmatic skills however, there is no real consensus about what factors contribute to this or what that numeracy now really is. New research here looked at a number of published research articles on the topic and came with interesting points.

Read all about it: HERE

Spatial cognition and Math

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A massive psychology study has found that spatial cognition training can enhance children’s math learning

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Mother’s education is important

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Great research here about the cognitive development of children coming into Kindergarten and their development in math and reading. It suggests that the mother’s education level is a factor more than social economic status when entering KG and the development thereafter.

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Precursor Math Concepts

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The Early Math Collaborative has a great page explaining the notion of Precursor Math Concepts.

Just as the foundation of a building anchors it in the earth and provides essential support for the growing structure, in the first three years of life children engage in a very fundamental way with concepts that anchor a child’s mathematical thinking and are essential for the growth of further mathematics.

Read all about it: HERE or read the new book Precursor Math Concepts

Build-A-Train

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Great research done by H Moriah Sokolowski 1 2, Rebecca Merkley 3, Sarah Samantha Bray Kingissepp 2, Praja Vaikuntharajan 2, Daniel Ansari 2

The ‘Build-A-Train’ task was developed and used to examine whether children spontaneously use a number or physical size approach on an un-cued matching task. In the Build-A-Train task, an experimenter assembles a train using one to five blocks of a particular length and asks the child to build the same train. The child’s blocks differ in length from the experimenter’s blocks, causing the child to build a train that matches based on either the number of blocks or length of the train, as it is not possible to match on both. 

The Build-A-Train task and findings from this current study set a foundation for future longitudinal research to investigate the causal relationship between children’s acquisition of symbolic mathematical concepts and attention to number.

Read all about it: HERE