Mathematics Competence Level: The Contribution of Non-symbolic and Spatial Magnitude Comparison Skills

Magnitude comparison skills have been related to mathematics competence, although results in this area vary. The current study aimed to describe the performance of 75 children (aged 4-5 years) in two comparison tasks; and examine the strength of the relationship between each of the two tasks and mat...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Frontiers in psychology 2019-03, Vol.10, p.465-465
Main Authors: Cueli, Marisol, Areces, Débora, McCaskey, Ursina, Álvarez-García, David, González-Castro, Paloma
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
comparison skills
mathematics competence
non-symbolic comparison
preschool children
Psychology
spatial comparison
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Magnitude comparison skills have been related to mathematics competence, although results in this area vary. The current study aimed to describe the performance of 75 children (aged 4-5 years) in two comparison tasks; and examine the strength of the relationship between each of the two tasks and mathematics competence level (MCL). Participants were assessed with the Early Numeracy Test which provides a global MCL score. Magnitude comparison skills were assessed with two tasks: a non-symbolic number comparison task and a spatial comparison task. Results of the Pearson correlation analysis showed a relationship between the two tasks with better performance in the spatial comparison task. Regression analysis with the stepwise method showed that only the non-symbolic number comparison task had a significant value in the prediction of the MCL pointing to the need to take these kinds of tasks into account in the first years of school.
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00465