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Broda, Michael; Tucker, Stephen; Ekholm, Eric; Johnson, Teri N.; Liang, Qiao – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study focused on 18 students 4-5 years old in an urban full-day preschool program in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Over the course of a month, students used a touchscreen tablet to interact with Fingu, an app designed to develop students' early number sense. Using backend data generated by the app, 8,153 individual task…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Handheld Devices, Computer Uses in Education, Preschool Education
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Haake, Magnus; Husain, Layla; Gulz, Agneta – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2015
There is substantial evidence that preschooler's performance in early math is highly correlated to math performance throughout school as well as academic skills in general. One way to help children attain early math skills is by using targeted educational software and the paper discusses potential gains of using such software to support early math…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Computer Uses in Education
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Palmér, Hanna – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
The results in this article explore whether and how the design of applications used on tablet computers influences the interaction and dialogues that occur between children and pedagogues, the participation of children in the activities and the mathematics that can be learned. While mathematics offered a lens to explore the use of tablet devices,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Mascia, Maria Lidia; Agus, Mirian; Fastame, Maria Chiara; Penna, Maria Pietronilla; Sale, Eliana; Pessa, Eliano – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
The development of numerical abilities was examined in three groups of 5 year-olds: one including 13 children accomplishing a numerical training in pencil-and-paper format (EG1); another group including 21 children accomplished a homologous training in computerized format; the remaining 24 children were assigned to the control group (CG). The…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mathematics Skills, Numbers, Computer Uses in Education
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Akcay, Ahmet Oguz – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
There are many available technologies that can assist future teachers to deliver instruction. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief review of literature identifying available technology tools in mathematics education and which technologies are selected by PSTs to design mathematics lesson activities. The most commonly used and available…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Presser, Ashley Lewis; Vahey, Philip; Dominguez, Ximena – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
This paper describes findings from a blocked randomized design (BRD) field study conducted to examine the "Next Generation Preschool Math" (NGPM) program's implementation in preschool classrooms and promise in improving young children's mathematic learning. NGPM integrates traditional preschool activities with developmentally appropriate…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Computer Uses in Education, Mathematics Curriculum
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
The 2012 study, "Longitudinal Evaluation of a Scale-Up Model for Teaching Mathematics with Trajectories and Technologies," examined the effects of "Technology-enhanced, Research-based, Instruction, Assessment, and professional Development (TRIAD)," a math intervention for preschoolers that combines a curriculum, a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Intervention, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
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Hunting, Robert P.; Mousley, Judith A.; Perry, Bob – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2012
The project "Mathematical Thinking of Preschool Children in Rural and Regional Australia: Research and Practice" aimed to investigate views of preschool practitioners about young children's mathematical thinking and development. Structured individual interviews were conducted with 64 preschool practitioners from rural areas of three…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Preschool Children, Rural Schools
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Linder, Sandra M. – Young Children, 2012
Teachers are using technological innovations--including interactive whiteboards--in pre-K-grade 3 classrooms across the country. An IWB is a wall-mounted, touch-sensitive flat screen. When connected to a computer (or another electronic device) and a projector, it displays enlarged instructional content (such as a math word problem, pictures or…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Mathematics Instruction, Young Children, Preschool Children