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Home and preschool learning environments and their relations to the development of early numeracy skills

Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
Preschool quality Home learning environment Numeracy skills Longitudinal study International childcare perspectives Cognitive development a b s t r a c t This study examined the influence of the quality of home and preschool learning environments on the development of early numeracy skills in Germany, drawing on a sample of 532 children in 97 ...
Susanne Ebert, Simone Lehrl
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Home Numeracy Environment and Counting Skills: A Descriptive Study in Cuban Preschoolers at Age 4 Years

SAGE Open
Numerous international studies have reported the importance of the home numeracy environment in promoting early math skills in preschool children; however, there is a lack of research in the Cuban context.
Yaser Ramírez-Benítez, Carlos Sebrango, Shawn L. Carlson, Natalia Józefacka, Linda Pagani   +4 more
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“We Don’t Have Things for Counting”: An Exploration of Early Numeracy Skills and Home Learning Experiences of Children Growing up in Poverty in South Africa

Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023
A child’s home environment has been shown to be related to the development of early numeracy skills in some countries. However, significant relationships between home learning environment and math achievement have not consistently been found, and likely ...
Rebecca Merkley, Elizabeth Sernoskie, Caylee J. Cook, Steven J. Howard, Hleliwe Makaula, Mbulelo Mshudulu, Nosibusiso Tshetu, Catherine E. Draper, Gaia Scerif   +8 more
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Home Learning Environments of Children in Mexico in Relation to Socioeconomic Status

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
We explored the home learning environments of 173 Mexican preschool children (aged 3–6 years) in relation to their numeracy performance. Parents indicated the frequency of their formal home numeracy and literacy activities, and their academic ...
María Inés Susperreguy, Carolina Jiménez Lira, Chang Xu, Jo-Anne LeFevre, Jo-Anne LeFevre, Humberto Blanco Vega, Elia Verónica Benavides Pando, Martha Ornelas Contreras   +7 more
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The Role of the Home Learning Environment on Early Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes in Math and Reading

Frontiers in Education, 2021
The home learning environment (HLE) has been considered to contribute to children’s early math and reading development. Previous studies examined the HLE by examining the influence of parent-child math and reading activities on math and reading outcomes,
Stefanie Vanbecelaere, Stefanie Vanbecelaere, Kanako Matsuyama, Bert Reynvoet, Fien Depaepe, Fien Depaepe   +5 more
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Associations Between Children’s Numeracy Competencies, Mothers’ and Fathers’ Mathematical Beliefs, and Numeracy Activities at Home

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Children’s numeracy competencies are not only relevant for their academic achievement, but also later in life. The development of early numeracy competencies is influenced by children’s learning environment.
Anna Mues, Astrid Wirth, Efsun Birtwistle, Frank Niklas   +3 more
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Individual Differences in Parental Support for Numeracy and Literacy in Early Childhood

Education Sciences, 2021
Past research has examined parental support for children’s math and reading skills in the early years through parents’ reports of their activities with their children in somewhat inconsistent ways.
Leanne Elliott, Peter Zheng, Melissa Libertus   +2 more
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Are children’s spontaneous number focusing tendencies related to their home numeracy environment?

ZDM, 2020
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 ...
Rathé, Sanne, Torbeyns, Joke, De Smedt, Bert, Verschaffel, Lieven   +3 more
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The relation between home numeracy practices and a variety of math skills in elementary school children.

PLoS ONE, 2021
A growing number of studies suggest that the frequency of numeracy experiences that parents provide at home may relate to children's mathematical development.
Cléa Girard, Thomas Bastelica, Jessica Léone, Justine Epinat-Duclos, Léa Longo, Jérôme Prado   +5 more
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The Home Learning Environment of Primary School Children with Down Syndrome and Those with Williams Syndrome

Brain Sciences, 2021
Background and aims: Research on typically developing (TD) populations has shown that the home learning environment plays a significant role in cognitive development and learning, but very little is known about the home learning environment of children ...
Erica Ranzato, Andrew Tolmie, Jo Van Herwegen   +2 more
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