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Magargee, Suzanne D.; Beauford, Judith E. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
The purpose of this longitudinal study is to investigate whether an early childhood intervention using an explicit and transparent number naming system will have a lasting benefit to English and Spanish speaking children in their mathematics achievement related to number sense by accelerating their acquisition of concepts of numeracy and place…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Irwin, Kathryn C.; Britt, Murray S. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2005
The New Zealand Ministry of Education has introduced a Numeracy Project for students aged 5-14 years in selected schools. The project encourages the adoption of flexible strategies for solving numerical problems, and discourages reliance on standard computational algorithms. One potential benefit of the project is that the methods students acquire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Algebra, Mathematics Education