The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research
into how young children learn mathematics and how best to develop foundational …

Achievement in different domains, such as academics, music, or visual arts, plays a central
role in all modern societies. Different psychological models aim to describe and explain …

How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do
some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding …

This seven-year longitudinal study examined how children's spontaneous focusing on
numerosity (SFON), subitizing based enumeration, and counting skills assessed at five or six …

Different number-specific and general cognitive markers have been claimed to underlie
preschoolers' math ability. It is unclear, however, whether similar/different cognitive markers …

Recent evidence suggests that early natural number knowledge is a predictor of later
rational number conceptual knowledge, even though students' difficulties with rational …

Many studies in the past decades have focused on low and typical mathematics achievers,
yet little is known about children with high mathematics achievement, particularly at a young …

Abstract Mathematics anxiety hinders students' mathematical achievement already in
primary school, but research on its effects beyond whole number knowledge is limited. The …

Background Early patterning competence has recently been identified as an important
precursor of mathematical development. Whereas the focus of this research has been on …

In this chapter, both the theoretical and methodological issues of the formation of individual
differences in Spontaneous Focusing On Numerosity (SFON) as a part of numerical …