Maths Performance Meanings

Question 1

Gelman 1972

Answer 1

Without rational terms, fewer errors in conservation

Question 2

Rose & Blank 1974

Answer 2

Asking the question twice makes them think they got it wrong the first time

Question 3

McGarrigle & Donaldson 1974

Answer 3

Naughty teddy - far fewer errors

Question 4

Gelman & Gallistel 1978

Answer 4

Innate principles: one-to-one, stable order, cardinal, order relevance

Question 5

Gelman & Meck 1983

Answer 5

Puppet counting experiments: correct on pseudotrials at 3-4 years old

Question 6

Arnold et al. 2002

Answer 6

By 4 years, several counting strategies, communicative law

Question 7

Fuson 1992

Answer 7

Number words are separate

Question 8

Wynn 1990

Answer 8

Grabbers vs. Counters

Question 9

Geary et al. 2001

Answer 9

Secondary to more general cognitive abilities - dyscalculia

Question 10

Thioux et al. 1999

Answer 10

Different localised brain regions for numerical and non-numerical semantic memory

Question 11

Nunes et al. 1993

Answer 11

Brazilian street vendors - good in vending context, not in school context

Question 12

Piazza et al. 2010; 2013

Answer 12

Education improves ANS (Mundurucu population): 10 y/o dyscalculics have ANS of 5 year old

Question 13

Park & Brannon 2013

Answer 13

Improve arithmetic via number sense, selective improvements in symbolic addition and subtraction

Question 14

Star et al. 2013

Answer 14

Preverbal ANS predicts pre-school maths performance

Question 15

Chen & Li 2014

Answer 15

Meta-analysis: correlation between maths performance and number acuity