We’re learning a lot about children’s need for math talk at home and school.
A couple of interesting pieces of research have been published recently involving parents, children, and math. There's good news and bad news. But the best news is that the good outweighs the bad. The short version. Don't do this. Do this. Bad news first. When...
What was, what might have been, and what could be....all in a conversation about marshmallows.
"As in other areas of language development, it appears children infer the meanings of [multi-digit] numbers using whatever experiences they can access." This is one of several conclusions a group of researchers at Michigan State University and Indiana University...
The conversations we have with our children affect their thinking. Of course they have their own interests, but the conversations we initiate have an impact. The New York Times' Motherlode blog (subtitle, Adventures in Parenting—we'll talk about the equating...
...it's probably true for number language too. University of Pennsylvania researchers have studied the quality of parents' speech to their toddlers, and its relationship to the children's vocabulary later on. "Quality" of speech was measured by how well an adult...
A University of Chicago study is summarized this way: The amount of time parents spend talking about numbers has a much bigger impact on how young children learn mathematics than was previously known, researchers at the University of Chicago have found.For example,...
From a recent Education Week article: Greg Duncan and his colleagues found that in a comparison of math, literacy, and social-emotional skills at kindergarten entry, "early math concepts, such as knowledge of numbers and ordinality, were the most powerful...