Children from kindergarten through second grade perform significantly above chance on simple multidigit numeral identification and comparison tasks¶
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Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2019: baselines and conditions change
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q3 i? Kindergarten, first-, and second-grade children performed significantly above chance on Which is x? and Which is more? tasks across numerals, blocks, and dots conditions. → Mix 2014
Evidence¶
Mix 2014¶
Mix, Kelly S., Prather, Richard W., Smith, Linda B., & Stockton, Jerri DaSha. (2014). Young Children's Interpretation of Multidigit Number Names: From Emerging Competence to Mastery. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12197
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Experiment 1 tested 91 children in kindergarten through second grade on mapping spoken number names to numerals, blocks, or dots and comparing quantities. The article reports that "Actual performance was significantly different from chance across age, task, and condition (all ps < .001)."
"Actual performance was significantly different from chance across age, task, and condition (all ps < .001)."
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Related Claims¶
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- Symbols-only training improved kindergarteners' performance on difficult place value items, but base-10 blocks training did not — related
- Base-10 blocks training was followed by a significant drop in kindergarteners' numerals-condition scores — related
- Children perform better with written numerals than with base-10 blocks or dot arrays on multidigit tasks — related
- Children can learn the meanings of novel number symbols through an artificial symbol learning paradigm, performing above chance on a subsequent symbolic comparison task — related
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Children from kindergarten through second grade perform significantly above chance on simple multidigit numeral identification and comparison tasks |
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Children from kindergarten through second grade perform significantly above chance on simple multidigit numeral identification and comparison tasks |
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2014 |
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2019 |
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