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  • Cognitive Development
  • Educational Psychology

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  • Patterning is a fundamental skill in early mathematics education.
  • Executive functions, including cognitive flexibility, inhibition, and working memory, are hypothesized to underpin patterning abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between patterning and executive functioning in first-grade children.
  • To examine the connections between patterning, executive functioning, mathematics, and reading skills.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed patterning abilities in first graders.
  • Evaluated executive functions: cognitive flexibility, inhibition, and working memory.
  • Analyzed relationships using regression and structural equation modeling.

Main Results:

  • Patterning correlated significantly with cognitive flexibility and working memory, but not inhibition.
  • Patterning, cognitive flexibility, and working memory were linked to mathematical skills.
  • Patterning and working memory were associated with reading skills.

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive flexibility and working memory are related to children's patterning abilities.
  • Patterning mediates the effects of cognitive flexibility on reading and mathematics.
  • Working memory influences reading and mathematics both independently and through patterning.