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Do the colors of educational number-tools improve children’s mathematics and numerosity?
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posted on 2023-06-09, 18:20 authored by Louisa RinaldiLouisa Rinaldi, Rebecca SmeesRebecca Smees, James Alvarez, Julia SimnerJulia SimnerThis study examined how colored educational tools improve children’s numerosity (‘number sense’) and/or mathematics. We tested children 6-10 years (n=3236) who had been exposed to colored numbers from the educational tools Numicon (Oxford University Press, 2018) or Numberjacks (Ellis, 2006), which map colors to magnitudes or Arabic numerals respectively. In a free-association task pairing numbers with colors, a subset of children spontaneously provided colors matching these schema. These children, who had internalized Numicon (colored magnitude), showed significantly better numerosity but not mathematics compared to peers. There was no similar benefit from internalizing Numberjacks (colored numerals). These data support a model in which colored number-tools provide benefits at different levels of numerical cognition, according to their different levels of cross-modal mappings.
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MULTISENSE:Lifespan Development of Typical & Atypical Multisensory Perception; G1568; EUROPEAN UNION; 617678
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Child DevelopmentISSN
0009-3920Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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4Volume
91Article number
e799-e813Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2019-07-09First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-10-04First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-07-08Usage metrics
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