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Published on: July 17, 2021
Relational language influences young children's number relation skills
Jenny Yun-Chen Chan1, Maria D Sera1, Michèle M M Mazzocco1
1Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Abstract:
Relational language is thought to influence mathematical skills. This study examines the association between relational language and number relation skills-knowledge of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial principles-among 104 U.S. kindergartners (5.9 years; 44% boys; 37% White, 25% Black, 14% Asian, 24% other) in the 2017-2018 academic year. Controlling for general verbal knowledge, executive function, and counting and number identification skills, relational language predicted later number relation skills, specifically number line estimation, β = .30. Relational language did not differentially predict number line estimation performance in children with low or high number relation skills, likely due to the restricted ranges of data within subgroups. Number relation skills, specifically number line estimation and number ordering, may be a pathway between relational language and mathematical skills.
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