Abstract Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Norway has play, exploration, and
discovery as foundations for children's learning, but lacks a curriculum that describes and …

High-quality teacher-child interactions in early learning environments have been regarded
as a key contributor to children's early language and cognitive development in international …

Playing board games and other math activities can provide young children with
opportunities to develop their math skills. However, it is critical to understand for whom these …

Math experiences during the preschool years play an important role in children's later math
learning. Preschool teachers exhibit considerable variability in the amount and types of …

Most studies on the subject have investigated relations between home math activities and
child math skills, without paying much attention to the specific skills that such activities foster …

Recent work has stressed the importance of considering child-level propensities and
environmental opportunities when studying early math achievement; however, few studies …

Research Findings: These two studies examined the different mathematical opportunities
provided in preschool classrooms, with a particular focus on the availability of mathematical …

Mathematical understanding in early childhood lays the foundation for children's later
academic achievement, yet little is known about individual differences in US early childhood …

This study evaluates the efficacy of a physically-active number learning game for young
preschoolers. The intervention adapts Ramani and Siegler's (Child Develop 79 (2): 375 …

Early mathematics skills are predictive of later achievement, but there is evidence teachers
generally provide little mathematics instruction in preschool classrooms. We conducted this …