This article argues that one dominant position in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and
philosophy about how genetic disorders point to the innate specification of dissociated …

Research indicates that developmental dyscalculia (DD; a mathematical deficiency) involves
a single brain area abnormality–in the intraparietal sulcus. This is surprising because,(i) the …

This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from
birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives. At the …

A model of the relations among cognitive precursors, early numeracy skill, and mathematical
outcomes was tested for 182 children from 4.5 to 7.5 years of age. The model integrates …

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

Children's symbolic number sense was examined at the beginning of first grade with a short
screen of competencies related to counting, number knowledge, and arithmetic operations …

The relations among various spatial and mathematics skills were assessed in a cross-
sectional study of 854 children from kindergarten, third, and sixth grades (ie, 5 to 13 years of …

This longitudinal study explored the importance of kindergarten measures of phonological
awareness, working memory, and quantity–number competencies (QNC) for predicting …

Early mathematics achievement is highly predictive of later mathematics performance. Here
we investigated the influence of executive function (EF) and spatial skills, two generalizable …

For early childhood, the domain of geometry and spatial reasoning is an important area of
mathematics learning. Unfortunately, geometry and spatial thinking are often ignored or …