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Parental Expectation, Attitudes, and Home Numeracy Environment in Korea and in the U.S.: Potential Sources of Asian Math Advantages

Education Sciences
This present study examined relations among parental math attitudes, expectations, and practice, and preschool children’s math achievement (i.e., parental math practice as a mediator) that may differ between Korean and U.S. samples.
Kyong-Ah Kwon, Haesung Im, Amber Beisly
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Numerical activities and information learned at home link to the exact numeracy skills in 5 to 6 years-old children

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
It is currently accepted that certain activities within the family environment contribute to develop early numerical skills before schooling.
Silvia eBenavides-Varela, Silvia eBenavides-Varela, Brian eButterworth, Francesca eBurgio, Francesca eBurgio, Giorgio eArcara, Daniela eLucangeli, Carlo eSemenza, Carlo eSemenza, Carlo eSemenza   +9 more
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Ambient heat and early childhood development: a cross‐national analysis

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Increasing evidence suggests that climate change, along with its cascading impacts on ecosystems, societies, and communities, has significant effects on both physical and mental health. However, less is known about how exposure to excessive heat early in life may influence the development of foundational skills that shape lifelong ...
Jorge Cuartas, Lenin H. Balza, Andrés Camacho, Nicolás Gómez‐Parra   +3 more
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Wealth and learning achievement of pupils in primary schools in Uganda: Implications for government economic empowerment programs

Interdisciplinary Journal of Rural and Community Studies
This paper examines the possession of family wealth and its impact on the academic achievement of primary school students in Eastern Uganda. A correlational survey design was employed to analyse UWEZO secondary data collected from eight districts in the ...
Ronald Kyagulanyi, Joseph Rwothumio, John Baptist Mpoza   +2 more
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Family influence on the development of number processing skills in preschool children

Revista Información Científica, 2022
Introduction: competence in mathematics is related to the development of basic skills for number processing (symbolic and non-symbolic) from early stages of development and before formal schooling.
Iliet Rodríguez-García, Klency González-Hernández, Nancy Estévez-Pérez, Yanet Campver-García, Yuniel Romero-Quintana   +4 more
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Maths Apps index #maths4us Project Report [PDF]

, 2013
This report provides an overview of the Maths Apps index project led by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) as part of the maths4us initiative during 2012 ...
ALT, ALT
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Improving child mental health and learning outcomes and reducing stigma and discrimination in conflict setting: findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial of a classroom‐based psychosocial intervention in rural primary schools in Afghanistan

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Conflict and crises have long‐lasting and dramatic consequences on the mental health of children. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention on child mental health in Afghanistan. Methods A two‐arm cluster‐randomized controlled trial was conducted in 83 rural primary schools within three provinces of Afghanistan.
Jean‐Francois Trani, Yiqi Zhu, Saria Bechara, Shuya Yin, Parul Bakhshi, Ian Kaplan, Ramkrishna K. Singh, Mohammed A. Modaber, Hashim Rawab, Madelyn Yoo, Kim Thuy Seelinger, Ganesh M. Babulal, Ramesh Raghavan   +12 more
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Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Preschool Center Experience upon Literacy and Numeracy Development in Early Primary School

Journal of Social Issues, 2008
This study investigates the influence of aspects of home and preschool environments upon literacy and numeracy achievement at school entry and at the end of the 3rd year of school. Individuals with unexpected performance pathways (by forming demographically adjusted groups: overachieving, average, and underachieving) were identified in order to ...
Melhuish, Edward, Phan, Mai B, Sylva, Kathy, Sammons, Pam, Siraj-Blatchford, Iram, Taggart, Brenda   +5 more
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Integrating the Essentials Core Competencies Related to Health Literacy Into Undergraduate Curriculum: Tapping Traditional and Emerging Education Strategies

Public Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in healthcare systems regarding health literacy. Although involving individuals, families, and communities in healthcare decision‐making improves their outcomes, their ability to interpret information depends on attention to health literacy and readability of materials.
Karen L. Valcheff, Deidra S. Pennington, Sarah K. Keaton, Kimberly Ferren Carter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Math Anxiety and Its Relations to Arithmetic Fluency and Number Processing: Evidence From Finnish, Finnish‐Swedish, and Swedish Fourth‐Grade Students

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The negative relationship between math anxiety and mathematics performance is well established. However, factors such as how math anxiety is operationalized, the specific mathematical domain, gender, and cultural context may influence this relationship.
Pinja Tähti, Jonatan Finell, Anna Tapola, Ellen Sammallahti, Anna Widlund, Bert Jonsson, Riikka Mononen, Johan Korhonen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source