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Cognitive factors underlying mathematical skills: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Tonje Amland1, Germán Grande2, Ronny Scherer3
1Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo.
Psychological Bulletin
|December 19, 2024
Summary
Symbolic number skills and language comprehension are key predictors of mathematical achievement in children and adolescents. Nonsymbolic number skills show weaker links, highlighting targets for effective math interventions.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Educational Psychology
Background:
- Mathematical skills rely on numerical, linguistic, spatial, and general cognitive abilities.
- Predictive power of these cognitive skills on math achievement varies, with moderators and relative importance underexplored.
Purpose of the Study:
- To meta-analyze cognitive predictors of mathematical skills in children and adolescents.
- To examine the relative importance and differential predictive patterns of various cognitive skills for arithmetic and word problems.
Main Methods:
- Meta-analysis of 269 concurrent and 174 longitudinal studies.
- Inclusion of 2,696 correlations examining cognitive predictors like number skills, language, spatial ability, and nonverbal IQ.
Main Results:
- Symbolic number skills strongly predict both arithmetic and word problems, unlike nonsymbolic number skills.
- Language comprehension is crucial for word problems, while phonological skills predict arithmetic.
- Nonverbal IQ and spatial ability show differential predictive patterns for arithmetic and word problems.
Conclusions:
- Symbolic number skills and language comprehension are recommended targets for math intervention studies.
- The malleability of nonverbal IQ and spatial skills as predictors remains uncertain.
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