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Parent-Child Interaction and Children's Number Learning
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Zhou, Xin; Huang, Jin; Wang, Zhengke; Wang, Bin; Zhao, Zhenguo; Yang, Lei; Yang, Zhengzheng – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
Two groups of Chinese four-year-olds and their parents' interaction in joint activities were analyzed and compared. The children in Group 1 were high scorers in written number skills and the children in Group 2 were low scorers. Eighty-five dyads participated in four separate 15-minute joint activities such as book reading, mathematical work…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Questionnaires
Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins. Mathematics: Mathematical Activities for Parents and Their 2- to 5-Year-Old Children.
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Fromboluti, Carol Sue; Magarity, Diane, Ed.; Rinck, Natalie – 1999
Noting children's inclination for things mathematical, this booklet of activities was written to help parents: use home activities to challenge their children's minds; to help parents and children enjoy mathematics; and to help parents ask their children questions that will get them thinking. The activities in the booklet require no special…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Learning Activities, Learning Processes
Reasoning about Variability in Comparing Distributions
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Ben-Zvi, Dani – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
Variability stands in the heart of statistics theory and practice. Concepts and judgments involved in comparing groups have been found to be a productive vehicle for motivating learners to reason statistically and are critical for building the intuitive foundation for inferential reasoning. The focus in this paper is on the emergence of beginners'…
Descriptors: Socialization, Data Analysis, Grade 7, Statistics
Student Description of Variation while Working with Weather Data
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Reading, Chris – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
Variation is a key concept in the study of statistics and its understanding is a crucial aspect of most statistically related tasks. This study aimed to extend and apply a hierarchy for describing students' understanding of variation that was developed in a sampling context to the context of a natural event in which variation occurs. Students aged…
Descriptors: Weather, Classification, Secondary School Students, Student Evaluation
Reasoning about Shape as a Pattern in Variability
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Bakker, Arthur – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
This paper examines ways in which coherent reasoning about key concepts such as variability, sampling, data, and distribution can be developed as part of statistics education. Instructional activities that could support such reasoning were developed through design research conducted with students in grades 7 and 8. Results are reported from a…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 8, Cognitive Development, Sampling
Purposeful Play with Your Preschooler: A Learning-Based Activity Book.
Maffei, Anthony C.; Hauck, Teresa M. – 1992
Noting that the preschool years play a crucial role in cognitive development, this book offers Piagetian-based educational activities for parents or teachers and preschool children that can be integrated into daily routines in a variety of everyday settings. The book is divided into two parts, the first describing cognitive development from a…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Cognitive Development, Creativity, Day Care