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- Title
Place-value understanding in number line estimation predicts future arithmetic performance.
- Authors
Dietrich, Julia F.; Huber, Stefan; Dackermann, Tanja; Moeller, Korbinian; Fischer, Ursula
- Abstract
In multi‐digit numbers, the value of each digit is determined by its position within the digit string. Children's understanding of this place‐value structure constitutes a building block for later arithmetic skills. We investigated whether a number line estimation task can provide an assessment of place‐value understanding in first grade. We hypothesized that estimating the position of two‐digit numbers requires place‐value understanding. Therefore, we fitted a linear function to children's estimates of two‐digit numbers and considered the resulting slope as a measure of children's place‐value understanding. We observed a significant correlation between this slope and children's performance in a transcoding task known to require place‐value understanding. Additionally, the slope for two‐digit numbers assessed at the beginning of grade 1 predicted children's arithmetic performance at the end of grade 1. These results indicate that the number line estimation task may indeed constitute a valid measure for first‐graders' place‐value understanding. Moreover, these findings are hard to reconcile with the view that number line estimation directly assesses a spatial representation of numbers. Instead, our results suggest that numerical processes involved in performing the task (such as place‐value understanding) may drive the association between number line estimation and arithmetic performance.
- Subjects
PLACE value (Mathematics); MATHEMATICAL literacy; STUDY &; teaching of arithmetic; NUMBER line; ESTIMATES; CHILDREN; ELEMENTARY education; ABILITY; ACADEMIC achievement; CHILD development; COGNITION in children; STATISTICAL correlation; MATHEMATICS; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH funding; TRAINING; MULTIPLE regression analysis; TASK performance; SHORT-term memory in children; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 4, p502
- ISSN
0261-510X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bjdp.12146