Word problems (WPs) belong to the most difficult and complex problem types that pupils
encounter during their elementary-level mathematical development. In the classroom …

Abstract Mathematics skills relate to lifelong career, health and financial outcomes.
Individuals' cognitive abilities predict mathematics performance and there is growing …

Mathematics skills are associated with future employment, well-being, and quality of life.
However, many adults and children fail to learn the mathematics skills they require. To …

Children's understanding of the quantities represented by number words (ie, cardinality) is a
surprisingly protracted but foundational step in their learning of formal mathematics. The …

This chapter discusses important background knowledge and research findings from a
variety of disciplines that inform best practices for supporting optimal mathematical …

Abstract Based on the Activity Theory, this study investigated the effect of an educational
tablet app and conventional teaching method on Chinese preschoolers' symbolic number …

Functional lateralization is established for various cognitive functions, but was hardly ever
investigated for arithmetic processing. Most neurocognitive models assume a central role of …

BACKGROUND: The South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) aims to expand
science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning in the national …

Using data from the World Atlas of Language Structures and other sources, this study
analyzed 905 languages for the presence of grammatical number (GN) and lexical numbers …

The spatial-numerical association of response codes (SNARC) refers to the faster left-hand
respons-es to smaller numbers and faster right-hand responses to larger numbers. Although …