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Early math skills like dot enumeration and prior mental addition speed are key predictors of future math abilities. Standardized math achievement also plays a role, but visuo-spatial working memory does not uniquely predict math performance over time.

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology

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  • Assessing early math potential is crucial for educational interventions.
  • Various cognitive and academic skills are proposed to underlie math ability.
  • Longitudinal studies are needed to understand the predictive power of these skills.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine which early math indices predict mental addition speed over time.
  • To investigate the combined and separate predictive roles of math achievement, number abilities, non-verbal intelligence, and visuo-spatial working memory.
  • To support a componential account of math ability development.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal path analysis of 267 children's data.
  • Assessment of Test of Early Mathematics Ability-2 (TEMA-2), dot enumeration, symbolic magnitude comparison, and visuo-spatial working memory at school entry (age 5).
  • Assessment of non-verbal intelligence (NVIQ) at age 8 and mental addition speed at ages 6, 8, and 10.

Main Results:

  • Dot enumeration ability profiles and previous mental addition speed consistently predicted future mental addition speed.
  • Standardized math achievement and NVIQ predicted mental addition speed at specific time points.
  • Visuo-spatial working memory and symbolic magnitude comparison did not uniquely contribute to predicting mental addition speed.

Conclusions:

  • Dot enumeration is a strong predictor of math learning potential at school entry.
  • A componential model, emphasizing core number abilities, effectively explains math ability development.
  • The findings have implications for early identification and support of children's math learning potential.