Cognitive science in the field: A preschool intervention durably enhances intuitive but not formal mathematics

Many poor children are underprepared for demanding primary school curricula. Research in cognitive science suggests that school achievement could be improved by preschool pedagogy in which numerate adults engage children’s spontaneous, nonsymbolic mathematical concepts. To test this suggestion, we d...

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Main Authors: Dillon, Moira R., Kannan, Harini, Spelke, Elizabeth S., Dean, Joshua Thomas, Duflo, Esther
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114666
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5751-9100
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-617X