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Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja; Elia, Iliada – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
In this study we investigated the structure of quantitative competence of kindergartners by testing a hypothesized four-factor model of quantitative competence consisting of the components counting, subitizing, additive reasoning and multiplicative reasoning. Data were collected from kindergartners in the Netherlands (n = 334) and in Cyprus (n =…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills
Opfer, John E.; Kim, Dan; Fazio, Lisa K.; Zhou, Xinlin; Siegler, Robert S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Chinese children routinely outperform American peers in standardized tests of mathematics knowledge. To examine mediators of this effect, 95 Chinese and US 5-year-olds completed a test of overall symbolic arithmetic, an IQ subtest, and three tests each of symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge (magnitude comparison, approximate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Cultural Differences, Arithmetic