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Wilson, Anna J.; Dehaene, Stanislas; Dubois, Ophelie; Fayol, Michel – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2009
"The Number Race" is an adaptive game designed to improve number sense. We tested its effectiveness using a cross-over design in 53 low socioeconomic status kindergarteners in France. Children showed improvements in tasks traditionally used to assess number sense (numerical comparison of digits and words). However, there was no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Cognitive Development, Mathematics Achievement
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Bocerean, Christine; Fischer, Jean-Paul; Flieller, Andre – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2003
This study contributes to the debate about the Flynn effect by proposing a long-term comparison (1921-2001) of the numerical knowledge of two cohorts of three- to five-and-a-half year-old children. In 1921, Beckmann (1923) assessed the numerical development of children using four tasks (Production, Distinction, Recognition, and Naming). In 2001,…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Comparative Analysis, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Basic Skills Agency, London (England). – 1997
An international numeracy scale compared how well adults in seven countries--the United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, Australia, and Denmark--handled some basic tasks involving numbers. The questionnaire comprised a set of 12 numeracy tasks that respondents were asked to complete using pen and paper. Within each country, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Arithmetic, Basic Skills