Virtual Intervention Programme to Improve the Working Memory and Basic Mathematical Skills in Early Childhood Education

Fernández-Abella, Raquel; Peralbo, Manuel; Durán-Bouza, Montserrat; Brenlla-Blanco, Juan Carlos; García-Fernández, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.psicoe.2018.09.003

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“…Whenever political and educational leaders speak or write about how the economic success of nations depends on the academic success of their students, the focus turns to mathematics (Pellegrini, Lake, Inns, & Slavin, 2018). Basic math skills the prerequisites for learning and understanding math (Fernandez-Abella et al, 2019). Mathematics education faces two crucial challenges.…”

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ATINER is an Athens-based World Association of Academics and Researchers based in Athens. ATINER is an independent and non-profit Association with a Mission to become a forum where Academics and Researchers from all over the world can meet in Athens, exchange ideas on their research and discuss future developments in their disciplines, as well as engage with professionals from other fields. Athens was chosen because of its long history of academic gatherings, which go back thousands of years to Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. Both these historic places are within walking distance from ATINER's downtown offices. Since antiquity, Athens was an open city. In the words of Pericles, Athens"…is open to the world, we never expel a foreigner from learning or seeing". ("Pericles' Funeral Oration", in Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War). It is ATINER's mission to revive the glory of Ancient Athens by inviting the World Academic Community to the city, to learn from each other in an environment of freedom and respect for other people's opinions and beliefs. After all, the free expression of one's opinion formed the basis for the development of democracy, and Athens was its cradle. As it turned out, the Golden Age of Athens was in fact, the Golden Age of the Western Civilization. Education and (Re)searching for the 'truth' are the pillars of any free (democratic) society. This is the reason why Education and Research are the two core words in ATINER's name.

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“…Several authors consider that technologies, compared to traditional resources of similar structure, can contribute to improving learning (Wouters et al, 2013 ; Fernández-Abella et al, 2019 ; Peralbo-Uzquiano et al, 2020 ). In other words, the tasks, and not the format in which they are presented, would be responsible for the progress.…”

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Contributions of the psychology of mathematical cognition in early childhood education using apps

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Educational interventions are necessary to develop mathematical competence at early ages and prevent widespread mathematics learning failure in the education system as indicated by the results of European reports. Numerous studies agree that domain-specific predictors related to mathematics are symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude comparison, as well as, number line estimation. The goal of this study was to design 4 digital learning app games to train specific cognitive bases of mathematical learning in order to create resources and promote the use of these technologies in the educational community and to promote effective scientific transfer and increase the research visibility. This study involved 193 preschoolers aged 57–79 months. A quasi-experimental design was carried out with 3 groups created after scores were obtained in a standardised mathematical competence assessment test, i.e., low-performance group (N = 49), high-performance group (N = 21), and control group (N = 123). The results show that training with the 4 digital learning app games focusing on magnitude, subitizing, number facts, and estimation tasks improved the numerical skills of the experimental groups, compared to the control group. The implications of the study were, on the one hand, provided verified technological tools for teaching early mathematical competence. On the other hand, this study supports other studies on the importance of cognitive precursors in mathematics performance.

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