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ERIC Number: ED570174
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Jun
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-0965
EISSN: N/A
Working Memory and Language: Skill-Specific or Domain-General Relations to Mathematics?
Purpura, David J.; Ganley, Colleen M.
Grantee Submission, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology v122 p104-121 Jun 2014
Children's early mathematics skills develop in a cumulative fashion; foundational skills form a basis for the acquisition of later skills. However, non-mathematical factors such as working memory and language skills have also been linked to mathematical development at a broad level. Unfortunately, little research has been conducted to evaluate the specific relations of these two non-mathematical factors to individual aspects of early mathematics. Thus, the focus of this study was to determine whether working memory and language were related to only individual aspects of early mathematics or related to many components of early mathematics skills. A total of 199 4- to 6-year-old preschool and kindergarten children were assessed on a battery of early mathematics tasks as well as measures of working memory and language. Results indicated that working memory has a specific relation to only a few--but critically important--early mathematics skills and language has a broad relation to nearly all early mathematics skills. [This article was published in "Journal of Experimental Child Psychology," v122 p104-121 Jun 2014.]
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Kindergarten; Primary Education; Early Childhood Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test; Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305B040074; R305B100017