Playing linear numerical board games promotes low-income children's numerical development
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What it found
Preschoolers from low-income families started behind their better-off peers in understanding how big numbers are. Playing a simple board game with numbers in a straight line for four 15-minute sessions closed the gap in number-line estimation; the same game with colors instead of numbers did not.
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- Lab experiment
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- A lab or small classroom experiment: rigorous, but too small or too short to count as a school trial.
- Sample
- Preschoolers from low-income families
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doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00714.x
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Siegler, R. S., & Ramani, G. B. (2008). Playing linear numerical board games promotes low-income children's numerical development. Developmental Science, 11(5), 655–661. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00714.x
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