Brain imaging studies on academic achievement offer an exciting window on experience-
dependent cortical plasticity, as they allow us to understand how develo** brains change …

This paper provides a tutorial introduction to numerical cognition, with a review of essential
findings and current points of debate. A tacit hypothesis in cognitive arithmetic is that …

In an effort to promote best practices regarding mathematics teaching and learning at the
preschool level, national advisory panels and organizations have emphasized the …

Psychological resilience has become a popular concept. Owing to that popularity, the word
resilience has taken on myriad and often overlap** meanings. To be a useful framework …

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' …

Although math anxiety is associated with poor mathematical knowledge and low course
grades (Ashcraft & Krause,), research establishing a connection between math anxiety and …

We introduce the Berlin Numeracy Test, a new psychometrically sound instrument that
quickly assesses statistical numeracy and risk literacy. We present 21 studies (n= 5336) …

The study's goal was to identify the beginning of 1st grade quantitative competencies that
predict mathematics achievement start point and growth through 5th grade. Measures of …

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from
complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all …

This article presents a theory in which automatization is construed as the acquisition of a
domain-specific knowledge base, formed of separate representations, instances, of each …