The effects of parental arithmetic ability and classroom instruction on individual differences in children’s arithmetic development KU Leuven
Arithmetic (e.g., 4 + 3 = 7 or 5 + 8 = 10 + 3 = 13) represents a core element of the mathematics curriculum in primary school, but some children have severe and persistent difficulties learning this basic competence, i.e. children with dyscalculia. My previous research showed that numerical magnitude processing skills or people’s elementary intuitions about quantity and their ability to understand the meaning of symbolic numbers, are stable ...