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Yuwen Ma; Marilyn Fleer; Liang Li; Yuejiu Wang – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Previous studies have emphasised that play can promote children's learning of mathematics. However, little research has been directed towards understanding how collective imaginary play motivates children's mathematical learning. Informed by the cultural-historical conception of play and motives, this paper examines how Conceptual PlayWorld (CPW)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Play
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Pan, Yue-Juan; Liu, Shan-Shan; Wang, Yu; Wu, Ni-Wen; Xie, Shuang – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study analyzes whether child factors are linked to variations in teacher cognitive activation (CA) among individual children in math-related activities within Chinese kindergarten classrooms. The findings show that teachers tend to provide direct CA with high concreteness and that child engagement with tasks is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Preschool Teachers
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Zhang, Xiao; Hu, Bi Ying; Zou, Xinzhuo; Ren, Lixin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
This study (N=196) examined the extent to which the frequency of parent-child math activities in preschool was associated with children's developmental trajectories of math skills from preschool to primary school. Parents reported the frequency of their involvement in a variety of math activities with their preschool children. Children were tested…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Achievement, Prediction