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Are Children's Spontaneous Number Focusing Tendencies Related to Their Home Numeracy Environment?

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Are Children's Spontaneous Number Focusing Tendencies Related to Their Home Numeracy Environment?
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Rathé, Sanne (ORCID 0000-0002-4867-4050), Torbeyns, Joke, De Smedt, Bert, Verschaffel, Lieven
المصدر: ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education. Aug 2020 52(4):729-742.
الإتاحة: Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-348-4505; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 14
تاريخ النشر: 2020
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Elementary Education
Kindergarten
Primary Education
Descriptors: Young Children, Numeracy, Family Environment, Mathematics Skills, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Attention
مصطلحات جغرافية: Belgium
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-020-01127-z
تدمد: 1863-9690
مستخلص: Young children show large individual differences in their tendency to focus spontaneously on numerical aspects (e.g., numerosities or Arabic number symbols) of their everyday environment. The origins of these individual differences are unclear. Given the role of the home numeracy environment (HNE) in children's early mathematical development and the assumed link between children's spontaneous number focusing tendencies and their numerical behavior in everyday life, it is plausible that children's spontaneous focusing tendencies are related to their HNE. The present study aimed to test this hypothesis by longitudinally investigating children's spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) and spontaneous focusing on Arabic number symbols (SFONS) in relation to their HNE. Participants were 128 children (4- to 5-year-olds), who were followed from the second until the third year of Flemish kindergarten. In both kindergarten years, children completed a SFON and SFONS Picture task while their parents completed a home numeracy questionnaire. Correlation analyses and structural equation modeling revealed no significant associations between children's spontaneous number focusing tendencies and their HNE, neither in second nor in third year of kindergarten. This finding suggests that children's spontaneous number focusing tendencies are not per se related to their HNE. Various possible explanations for this unexpected finding are discussed and directions for further research on this relationship are suggested.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2020
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1261964
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC
الوصف
تدمد:1863-9690
DOI:10.1007/s11858-020-01127-z