Environmental influences on mathematics performance in early childhood

AM Silver, ME Libertus - Nature reviews psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Mathematics skills relate to lifelong career, health and financial outcomes.
Individuals' cognitive abilities predict mathematics performance and there is growing …

The cognitive profile of math difficulties: A meta-analysis based on clinical criteria

S Haberstroh, G Schulte-Körne - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Development of numeracy and literacy skills in early childhood—A longitudinal study on the roles of home environment and familial risk for reading and math …

J Salminen, D Khanolainen, T Koponen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This study examines the direct and indirect effects of home numeracy and literacy
environment, and parental factors (parental reading and math difficulties, and parental …

Mothers' and fathers' engagement in math activities with their toddler sons and daughters: The moderating role of parental math beliefs

AM Silver, Y Chen, DK Smith… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Parents' beliefs about the importance of math predicts their math engagement with their
children. However, most work focuses on mothers' math engagement with preschool-and …

Exploring effects of an early math intervention: The importance of parent–child interaction

A Ribner, AM Silver, L Elliott, ME Libertus - Child Development, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We explore whether training parents' math skills or playing number games improves
children's mathematical skills. Participants were 162 parent–child dyads; 88.3% were white …

Investigating associations between parent engagement and toddlers' mathematics performance

AM Silver, M Swirbul… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Early mathematics skills relate to later mathematics achievement and educational
attainment, which in turn predict career choice, income, health and financial decision …

Time spent playing predicts early reading and math skills through associations with self-regulation

P Miller, L Betancur, L Coulanges, J Kammerzell… - Journal of applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Children's play time has declined in recent decades, which could negatively impact early
self-regulation—a vital component of school readiness. To date, studies have not fully …

Home mathematics environment and math performance of Chilean students in kindergarten and Grades 1 to 3

MI Susperreguy, SDL Burr, H Douglas, C Xu… - Early Childhood …, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigated whether home math activities were related to children's math performance
in kindergarten and the first three years of primary school. Participants were Chilean parents …

The emergence of children's natural number concepts: Current theoretical challenges

F Sella, E Slusser, D Odic… - Child Development …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Learning the meaning of number words is a lengthy and error‐prone process. In this review,
we highlight outstanding issues related to current accounts of children's acquisition of …

Parental math input is not uniformly beneficial for young children: The moderating role of inhibitory control.

AM Silver, L Elliott, ME Libertus - Journal of educational …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent work has stressed the importance of considering child-level propensities and
environmental opportunities when studying early math achievement; however, few studies …