Maths Performance Studies

Question 1

Conservation tasks without relational terms

Answer 1

Gelman 1972

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Rose & Blank 1974

Question 3

Naughty teddy - fewer errors

Answer 3

McGarrigle & Donaldson 1974

Question 4

Innate rules of number: one-to-one, stable order, cardinal, order relevance

Answer 4

Gelman & Gallistel 1978

Question 5

Puppet counting experiments: 3-4 y/o good on pseudoerror and other trials

Answer 5

Gelman & Meck 1983

Question 6

By 4 years developed counting strategies, communicative law etc.

Answer 6

Arnold et al. 2002

Question 7

Number words are individual

Answer 7

Fuson 1992

Question 8

Counters vs. Grabbers

Answer 8

Wynn 1990

Question 9

Secondary to more general cognitive deficits

Answer 9

Geary et al. 2001

Question 10

Areas for semantic numerical and non-numerical memory are localised differently

Answer 10

Thioux et al. 1999

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Nunes et al. 1993

Question 12

ANS improves with education (Mundurucu population) and 10 y/o dyscalculics have ANS of 5 year old

Answer 12

Piazza et al. 2010; 2013

Question 13

Teaching ANS to improve mathematics, selectively improves symbolic addition and subtraction

Answer 13

Park & Brannon 2013

Question 14

Preverbal ANS predicts pre-school maths abilities

Answer 14

Star et al. 2013

Question 15

Meta-analysis: correlation between maths performance and number acuity

Answer 15

Chen & Li 2014