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Broadening the horizon: Toddlers' strategies for learning mathematics
Bjorklund, Camilla, March, 2010
International Journal of Early Years Education, 18(1), 71-84

An analysis of observations of strategies that toddlers initiate to enhance their understanding of basic aspects of mathematics, based on video observations of 23 children between 13 and 45 months old in 2 child care centers in Finland

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Do home numeracy and literacy practices of Greek and Canadian parents predict the numeracy skills of kindergarten children?
LeFevre, Jo-Anne, March 2010
International Journal of Early Years Education, 18(1), 55-70

A study of the relationship between numeracy and literacy practices of Greek and Canadian parents and the numeracy skills of their kindergarten children from surveys of 100 parents in Greece and 104 parents in Canada

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Early mathematics: A Key Topic Resource List
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, February 2010
New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

A compilation of selected Research Connections resources focused on early mathematics, including a summary of issues addressed in the literature and a listing of resources in the areas of: programs and instruction, skills and knowledge, parents and home environments, standards and policies, and program evaluations and mathematics assessments

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Ecological contexts and early learning: Contributions of child, family, and classroom factors during Head Start, to literacy and mathematics growth through first grade
Hindman, Annemarie H., Q2 2010
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25(2), 235-250

An investigation of the extent to which child, family, and Head Start classroom factors are related to children's literacy and mathematics skills from kindergarten entrance through first grade, based on a secondary analysis of data on 945 children and families from the Family and Child Experiences Survey

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The effects of test translation on young English learners' mathematics performance
Robinson, Joseph P., November, 2010
Educational Researcher, 39(8), 582-590

A comparison of the performance on mathematics assessments of Spanish-speaking students tested in Spanish and English-speaking students tested in English, based on data from 1,618 kindergarten students from 701 different classrooms in 294 schools

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Emergent mathematical thinking in the context of play
van Oers, Bert, May, 2010
Educational Studies in Mathematics, 74(1), 23-37

A discussion of select research findings on the roles of mathematics in the play activities of young children

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Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies: Follow-up study of the participants in Project Upgrade in Miami-Dade: Research brief
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, June, 2010
(OPRE Report No. 2011-36). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Findings from a follow-up study of the impacts on early elementary children's reading and math achievement of two early language and literacy interventions that had been implemented in classrooms for 4-year-olds at child care centers serving children from low-income families in Miami-Dade County, Florida

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Exploring young children's (mathematical) thinking: Preservice teachers reflect on the use of the one-to-one interview
Dunphy, Elizabeth, December 2010
International Journal of Early Years Education, 18(4), 331-347

A study of preservice teacher's use of the one-to-one interview with children, teachers impressions of the experience, and childrens' impressions of their own mathematical thinking, based on analysis of data from a training exercise with a selected sample of 58 preservice teachers in Ireland

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First Things First External Evaluation research brief: Arizona Kindergarten Readiness Study
Marx, Ronald W., October, 2010
Tucson: University of Arizona.

Findings on the relationship of preschool attendance to early math and literacy skills from a study of the school readiness and development of Arizona kindergarteners, based on direct assessments, parent questionnaires, and teacher questionnaires for a representative sample of 1,145 kindergarteners in 2009

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Inference and exact numerical representation in early language development
Barner, David, February 2010
Cognitive Psychology, 60(1), 40-62

An argument that the understanding of the distinction between 'a' and 'one' yields insight into children’s assignment of exact interpretations to numerals, based on a selective review of the literature and a re-examination of data from various sources

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Kindergarten mathermatics with 'Pepe the Rabbit': How kindergarteners use auxiliary means to solve problems
Skoumpourdi, Chrysanthi, September 2010
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 18(3), 299-307

A study of the approaches to number problem tasks of 20 5-year-olds at a public kindergarten in Greece

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Mathematics in early childhood: An investigation of mathematics skills in preschool and kindergarten students
Smith, Cara, 2010
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

A study of a model of mathematics skills acquisition as measured by eight assessment tasks of early mathematics skills with 88 students in ten preschool and four kindergarten classrooms

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Mathematics learning in early childhood, National Research Council (2009). Washington, DC: The National Academic Press
Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling, May 2010
International Journal of Early Childhood, 42(1), 67-68

A review of a comprehensive review of research on young children's mathematics development, learning, and education

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The notions of chance and probabilities in preschoolers
Nikiforidou, Zoi, December 2010
Early Childhood Education Journal, 38(4), 305-311

A study of children's ability to predict the most probable outcome in a probabilistic game with animal cards and whether they can mark symbols randomly distributed in a 5 by 5 matrix, based on data from 200 children aged 4 through 6

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Numerical estimation in preschoolers
Berteletti, Ilaria, March, 2010
Developmental Psychology, 46(2), 545-551

A two-part assessment of kindergarteners' ability to provide reliable estimates of number positions on number lines, using samples of 46 and 373 children, 3.5 to 6.5 years old, from kindergartens in northeastern Italy

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Optimizing early mathematics experiences for children from low-income families: A study on opportunity to learn mathematics
Wang, Aubrey H., January 2010
Early Childhood Education Journal, 37(4), 295-302

An examination of African American and Caucasian students’ differential opportunities to learn mathematics and the extent to which those opportunities predict gains in mathematics achievement in kindergarten from a secondary analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey of 1,721 first time African American and Caucasian kindergarteners in fall 1998 who lived below the poverty line

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Phonological awareness and mathematical difficulty: A longitudinal perspective
Jordan, Julie-Ann, March, 2010
British Journal of Developmental Psychology , 28(1), 89-107

A comparison of the relationship between phonological ability and eight components of informal and formal mathematics achievement for three groups of children, one group identified as typically achieving, a second group as having both poor phonology and mathematical difficulties, and the third group, as having only phonological difficulty, based on data from 82 5- through 7-year-old children in Northern Ireland

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Prediction of kindergartners' academic achievement from their effortful control and emotionality: Evidence for direct and moderated relations
Valiente, Carlos, 2010
Journal of Educational Psychology, 102(3), 550-560

A study of the relationships between academic achievement and both effortful control and emotionality, including anger, sadness, and shyness, based on data from a longitudinal study of 291 kindergartners

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The predictive utility of kindergarten screening for math difficulty
Seethaler, Pamela, Fall 2010
Exceptional Children, 77(1), 37-59

An examination of the reliability, validity, and predictive utility of three kindergarten screening measures of children at risk for math difficulty, based on data collected in September and May of kindergarten from 196 students in 5 schools in a metropolitan school district in the Southeast

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Preschoolers with disabilities: Early math performance
Institute of Education Sciences (U.S.), 2010
(NCSER 2010-3003). Washington, DC: Institute of Education Sciences.

Highlights of findings from a study on the performance of children with disabilities in the subject of early mathematics and quantitative concepts

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Preschool executive functioning abilities predict early mathematics achievement
Clark, Caron A. C., September 2010
Developmental Psychology, 46(5), 1176-1191

A study of the relationship between executive function abilities at age 4 and achievement in mathematics at age 6, 1 year after school entry, based on 104 children in New Zealand followed prospectively

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The role of number words in preschoolers’ addition concepts and problem-solving procedures
Patel, Pooja, March 2010
Educational Psychology, 30(2), 107-124

An examination of the relationship between conceptual understanding of mathematics’ commutative and associative properties and procedural skills, an examination of the relationship between those skills and ages of children, and a study of the relationship between the role of the integration or absence of number words and concrete references to problem solving ability on a task, for 18 3- and 4-year-olds and 24 4- and 5-year-olds from two preschools and four child care centers in Australia

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The social competence of Latino kindergartners and growth in mathematical understanding
Galindo, Claudia, May 2010
Developmental Psychology, 46(3), 579-592

An examination of kindergarteners' self-control, interpersonal skills, approaches to learning, internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors among Latino subgroups and the relationship between social competence at kindergarten entry and children's mathematical understanding during the kindergarten year

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The TangibleK robotics program: Applied computational thinking for young children
Bers, Marina Umaschi, Fall 2010
Early Childhood Research & Practice, 12(2)

A description of the TangibleK robotics program for young children, a program that uses robotics as a tool to engage children in the development of computational thinking and learning about the engineering design process

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What counts in the development of young children's number knowledge?
Levine, Susan Cohen, September 2010
Developmental Psychology, 46(5), 1309-1319

A study of the relationship between the number talk infants and toddlers hear from their primary caregiver in the home environment and their understanding of the numeric meanings of number words at preschool age, based on video transcripts of home observations of 44 parent-infant dyads as well as tests administered to parents and children

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