Challenges and opportunities of mathematics in digital times: Preschool teachers' views

K Lavidas, Z Apostolou, S Papadakis - Education Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis. Worldwide, preschool
teachers were invited to develop the students' learning experience in a new digital …

School readiness and self-regulation: A developmental psychobiological approach

C Blair, CC Raver - Annual review of psychology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Research on the development of self-regulation in young children provides a unifying
framework for the study of school readiness. Self-regulation abilities allow for engagement in …

On the relationship between math anxiety and math achievement in early elementary school: The role of problem solving strategies

G Ramirez, H Chang, EA Maloney, SC Levine… - Journal of experimental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Even at young ages, children self-report experiencing math anxiety, which negatively relates
to their math achievement. Leveraging a large dataset of first and second grade students' …

On computational thinking and STEM education

Y Li, AH Schoenfeld, AA diSessa, AC Graesser… - Journal for STEM …, 2020 - Springer
The recognized importance of computational thinking has helped to propel the rapid
development of related educational efforts and programs over the past decade. Given the …

Is kindergarten the new first grade?

D Bassok, S Latham, A Rorem - AERA open, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent accounts suggest that accountability pressures have trickled down into the early
elementary grades and that kindergarten today is characterized by a heightened focus on …

Investing in preschool programs

GJ Duncan, K Magnuson - Journal of economic perspectives, 2013 - aeaweb.org
We summarize the available evidence on the extent to which expenditures on early
childhood education programs constitute worthy social investments in the human capital of …

Quality in early education classrooms: Definitions, gaps, and systems

R Pianta, J Downer, B Hamre - The future of children, 2016 - JSTOR
Parents, professionals, and policymakers agree that quality is crucial for early education. But
precise, consistent, and valid definitions of quality have been elusive. In this article, Robert …

How important is where you start? Early mathematics knowledge and later school success

A Claessens, M Engel - Teachers College Record, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Children's early skills are essential for their later success in school. Recent
evidence highlights the importance of early mathematics, relative to reading and …

Learning executive function and early mathematics: Directions of causal relations

DH Clements, J Sarama, C Germeroth - Early Childhood Research …, 2016 - Elsevier
Although there has been much recent attention to young children's development of
executive function and early mathematics, few studies have integrated the two. Here we …

[BUCH][B] Learning and teaching early math: The learning trajectories approach

DH Clements, J Sarama - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research
into how young children learn mathematics and how best to develop foundational …