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Bakker, Merel; Torbeyns, Joke; Verschaffel, Lieven; De Smedt, Bert – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Children start preschool with large individual differences in their early numerical abilities. Little is known about the importance of heterogeneous patterns that exist within these individual differences. A person-centered analytic approach might be helpful to unravel these patterns and the cognitive and environmental factors that are associated…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Preschool Education
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Cavadel, Elizabeth Woodburn; Frye, Douglas A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The current study investigated the role of theory of mind development in school readiness among 120 low-income preschool and kindergarten children. A short-term longitudinal design was used to examine relations among theory of mind, the understanding of teaching, and learning behaviors and their collective role in children's literacy and numeracy…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, School Readiness, Low Income Groups, Preschool Children
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Muldoon, Kevin; Towse, John; Simms, Victoria; Perra, Oliver; Menzies, Victoria – Developmental Psychology, 2013
In response to claims that the quality (and in particular linearity) of children's mental representation of number acts as a constraint on number development, we carried out a longitudinal assessment of the relationships between number line estimation, counting, and mathematical abilities. Ninety-nine 5-year-olds were tested on 4 occasions at 3…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Intervals, Computation, Young Children