Math difficulties (MD) manifest across various domain-specific and domain-general abilities.
However, the existing cognitive profile of MD is incomplete and thus not applicable in typical …

This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it
shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic …

This review reconciles past findings on numerical processing with key assumptions of the
most predominant model of arithmetic in the literature, the Triple Code Model (TCM). This is …

Many empirical studies have shown that students' mathematical difficulties are often
connected to language factors. In this chapter, we discuss this issue from different …

This paper attempts to identify the extent to which the affective characteristics of Malaysian
and Singaporean students' attainment compared to the OECD average in Programme for …

The relative linguistic transparency of the Asian counting system has been used to explain
Asian students' relative superiority in cross-cultural comparisons of mathematics …

In the present study, we explored how linguistic skills (phonological and semantic) influence
the multiple components of school arithmetic (numeration, computation, and word problems) …

In their recent paper on" Challenges in mathematical cognition", Alcock and colleagues
(Alcock et al.[2016]. Challenges in mathematical cognition: A collaboratively-derived …

Decimal fractions comply with the base-10 notational system of natural Arabic numbers.
Nevertheless, recent research suggested that decimal fractions may be represented …

Our epistemic access to mathematical objects, such as numbers, is mediated through our
external representations of them, such as numerals. Nevertheless, the role of formal …