Child Care Zone
Published Journal Articles
Pathways to Arithmetic: Longitudinal Predictors of Performance. LeFevre, J.-A., Fast, L., Skwarchuk, S.-L., Smith-Chant, B. L., Bisanz, J., Kamawar, D. and Penner-Wilger, M. (2010), Child Development, 81: 1753–1767. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01508.x
Do home numeracy and literacy pratices of Greek and Canadian parents predict the numeracy skills of kindergarten children? LeFevre, J.-A. Polyzoib, E.,Skwarchuk, S.-L., Fast, L., Sowinski, C., International Journal of Early Years Education (2010) Vol. 18, No. 1, 55-70.
Knowledge of counting principles: How relevant is order irrelevance? D.Kamawar et al., Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2010) Vol. 105, No.4, 135-145.
Home Numeracy Experiences and Children's Math Performance in the Early School Years.LeFevre, J.-A.Skwarchuk, S.-L., Smith-Chant, B. L.,Fast, L., Kamawar, D.and Bisanz,J., Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science (2009) Vol. 41, No. 2, 55–66.
What Counts as Knowing? The Development of Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge of Counting From Kindergarten Through Grade 2. J. LeFevre et al., Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2006) Vol. 93, 285-303.
Refereed Conference ProceedingsThe foundations of numeracy: Subitizing, finger gnosia, and fine-motor ability.
M. Penner-Wilger et al., (2007). Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Conceptual Knowledge of Counting: How Relevant is Order Irrelevance?
J. LeFevre et al., (2008). In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1356-1362). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Precursors to the representation of number.
M. Penner-Wilger, L. Fast, J. LeFevre, B. L. Smith-Chant, S. Skwarchuk, D. Kamawar, & J. Bisanz, (2009). In the Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Conference Presentations in PDF
INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCE 2010 (accepted)
Parents count too: Linking home experiences with children’s numeracy performance.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY 2009
Quantification and arithmetic: How are they related?
SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT 2009
What counts from the home? Home experiences and children's acquisition of mathematics.
MANITOBA CHILD CARE CONFERENCE 2009
Who’s counting: Numeracy and the Preschool Child.
COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY 2008
Investigating the Building Blocks of Numerical Representations: Subitizing and Finger Gnosis
BRAIN & BEHAVIOUR COGNITION SOCIETY 2008
Adults Count too: Subitizing and Arithmetic Fluency in Adults
SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT 2007
Putting Your Finger on It: How Neuropsychological Tests Predict Children’s Math Ability
Paths to Early Arithmetic: Informal Calculation and Formal Knowledge of the Number System
Inversion Use Among Students in Grades 2-4
BRAIN & BEHAVIOUR COGNITION SOCIETY 2006
Components of Early Mathematical Competence: Fine Motor Ability and Working Memory
SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT 2005
How Many are There?: Subitizing vs Counting Performance Across Primary Grades
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR STUDY OF EDUCATION 2005
BRAIN & BEHAVIOUR COGNITION SOCIETY 2005
1,2,3-Tap: The Relation between Finger Tapping and Counting across Children and Adults
Counting on Subitizing: The Relations among Subitizing, Counting, and Find Motor Coordination
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY 2005
Theses Abstracts in PDF
2009 Ph.D.: M. Penner-Wilger. Subitizing, Finger Gnosis, and Finger Agility as Precursors to the Representation of Number.
2009 Masters: C. Sowinski. Are parent and childcare practitioner characteristics predictive of their early literacy and numeracy practices?
2008 Honours: M. Broekma. Should teachers use children’s literature to teach mathematics?
2008 Honours: M. Dale. Exploring the pathway between finger gnosia and mathematical ability.
2007 Honours: E. Schryer. The Development of Conceptual and Procedural Understanding of Counting.
2007 Honours: V. Grant. Children’s Home Activities: An Examination of the Relation between Home Activities and Math Performance for Children in Grades Two and Three.
2007 Honours: C. Brescacin. Informal Mathematical Practices in the Home:
The Predictability of Formal Mathematical Achievement in Kindergarten Students.
2006 Honours : S. Bannoff. The Corsi Block-Tapping Task in Children: Exploring Performance, Stimulus Variations, and Relations to Early Mathematical Ability.
2006 Honours: D. Nichols. Subitizing in Children with Strong Math Skills: Optional or Automatic?
2006 Honours: E. Sargla. Understanding Children’s Conceptual Knowledge of Counting.
2006 Masters: R. Watchorn. Inversion Use Among Students in Grades 2-4.
Parent Newsletters
The 2007 Parent Newsletter can be downloaded here, and a copy will be sent to every participating child & parent. This final issue shares the results of our study of the role of fingers in learning arithmetic. We also describe our pathways model of arithmetic development in young children.
In the 2006 Parent Newsletter, the focus is on arithmetic. We describe how young children's arithmetic is related to their language skills and also to their ability to think about sets of objects and how they can change. The second article talks bout how it is important for older children to become fluent in arithmetic - that is, to solve arithmetic problems quickly and correctly.
The 2005 Parent Newsletter discusses number flexibility and that frequent game playing is related to how quickly and accurately children count.
The 2004 Parent Newsletter focuses on counting speed and counting on to the next number.
