LEMMA - The role of Language in Early MatheMatical Achievement KU Leuven
Mathematics has always been a central curricular domain in elementary and secondary education worldwide. In the preschool years, the focus is mostly on very basic numerical abilities (the counting words, identifying or comparing numerosities), and in the first years of primary school this is further systematized in the form of simple arithmetic. Recent studies, however, have shown that children are already able to reason about more complex ...