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Direct linkJosetxu Orrantia; David Muñez; Rosario Sánchez; Laura Matilla – Developmental Science, 2024
Mapping skills between different codes to represent numerical information, such as number symbols (i.e., verbal number words and written digits) and non-symbolic quantities, are important in the development of the concept of number. The aim of the current study is to investigate children's mapping skills by incorporating another numerical code…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Pattern Recognition, Child Development, Numbers
Yeni Acosta; Ángel Alsina; Nataly Pincheira – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This paper provides a longitudinal analysis of the understanding of repetition patterns by 24 Spanish children ages 3, 4 and 5, through representation and the type of justification. A mixed quantitative and qualitative study is conducted to establish bridges between algebraic thinking and computational thinking by teaching repetition patterns in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Computation
Supply, Anne-Sophie; Wijns, Nore; Van Dooren, Wim; Onghena, Patrick – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
The many studies with coin-tossing tasks in literature show that the concept of randomness is challenging for adults as well as children. Systematic errors observed in coin-tossing tasks are often related to the representativeness heuristic, which refers to a mental shortcut that is used to judge randomness by evaluating how well a set of random…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Preschool Children, Prediction, Thinking Skills
Emily R. Fyfe; Giulia A. Borriello – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Researchers agree that both domain-general skills and domain-specific skills contribute to mathematics knowledge, but questions arise as to which skills can and should be trained to improve children's learning outcomes. In this article, we synthesize research on training three domain-general constructs in early childhood (patterning skills,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Mathematics Education, Pattern Recognition
Jiayi Weng; Huihua He; Yu Xue; Miaomiao Guo; Chunxia Wu – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Pattern creation (PC) is creating a pattern unit based on children's own understanding of the concept of pattern, without being provided with a pattern unit as a reference, and the repetition of this pattern unit to create a complete structure. This study explored the performance and predictors of pattern creation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Public Schools, Pattern Recognition
Kevin Larkin; Ilyse Resnick; Thomas Lowrie – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2024
Patterns are a fundamental component of mathematics, and the patterning ability of young children has been well researched; however, this research has largely been conducted with relatively small cohorts (±70) and in an interventionist way (in laboratory settings or with researchers directly intervening in educational contexts). The current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Pattern Recognition, Mathematics Education
Gasco-Txabarri, Javier; Zuazagoitia, Daniel – Education 3-13, 2023
This article presents and analyses a didactic proposal based on manipulative material (Knobless Cylinders) used in a Montessori classroom of 3-6-year-old pre-schoolers. Choosing this material is justified in relation to the competencies/strategies/skills used during the development of mathematical patterning. Numerous studies emphasise the…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Sensory Experience, Manipulative Materials
Download full textKristina M. Tank; Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich; Tamara J. Moore; Sohheon Yang; Zarina Wafula; Jiyoung Kim; Bárbara Fagundes; Lin Chu – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2024
Within the field of K-2 computer science (CS) education, unplugged computational thinking (CT) activities have been suggested as beneficial for younger students and shown to impact young students' skills and motivation to learn about CS. This study sought to examine how children demonstrate CT competencies in unplugged sequencing tasks and how…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Computer Science Education, Preschool Children
Sen, Ceylan; Guler, Gürsel – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
In this study, it was aimed to investigate 4-to-6-year-old children's reasoning skills appearing in pattern tasks. 55 children studying in the classes of four different pre-school classes participated in the study. A classroom teaching experiment was conducted to examine the development of children's reasoning skills in pattern tasks. Both…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Pattern Recognition, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education
Huiguang Ren; Craig H. Hart; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Chris L. Porter; David A. Nelson; H. Melis Yavuz-Müren; Wen Gao; Fatimah Haron; Liuqing Jiang; Akiko Kawashima; Ai Shibazaki-Lau; Jun Nakazawa; Larry J. Nelson; Clyde C. Robinson; Ayse Bilge Selçuk; Cortney Evans-Stout; Jo-Pei Tan; Chongming Yang; Ai-Hwa Quek; Nan Zhou – Developmental Science, 2024
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards
Leyva, Diana; Libertus, Melissa E.; McGregor, Rebecca – Education Sciences, 2021
Most studies on the subject have investigated relations between home math activities and child math skills, without paying much attention to the specific skills that such activities foster and their alignment with children's math assessments. The present study examined specific relations between subdomains of home math activities and children's…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Children, Family Environment
Wijns, Nore; Purpura, David; Torbeyns, Joke – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a dialogic reading picture book intervention on preschoolers' repeating patterning ability. Ninety-four children age 4 years 1 month to 6 years 8 months (M[subscript age] = 5 years 0 months) were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 46) or active control (n = 48) conditions. Well-trained university and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Picture Books, Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others
Baroody, Arthur J.; Yilmaz, Nursel; Clements, Douglas H.; Sarama, Julie – Grantee Submission, 2021
Although hypothetical learning trajectories (HLTs) are often viewed as a valuable instructional tool, little research has directly evaluated their value. A basic assumption of HLTs is that ordering instructional activities by developmental difficulty enhances learning. A randomized control trial (RCT) served to evaluate this assumption with a…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Patternmaking, Effect Size, Intervention
Lüken, Miriam M.; Sauzet, Odile – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2021
Despite increasing data on young children's patterning skills and evidence of a link between early pattern knowledge and later mathematics performance, little is known about the strategies children use to solve patterning tasks. This mixed-methods study examined 3- to 5-year-old children's informal strategies when solving eight patterning tasks…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Mathematics Instruction
Gripton, Catherine – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Research shows that attention to pattern and structure is fundamental to mathematical learning and attainment yet early mathematics curricula in England underplay the importance of patterning. In a critical realist notion of powerful knowledge, pattern teaching has the potential to empower children to notice patterns, mathematise their everyday…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Early Childhood Education, Mathematics Curriculum, Early Childhood Teachers
