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The Influence of Fostering Children’s Patterning Abilities on Their Arithmetic Skills in Grade 1

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Contemporary Research and Perspectives on Early Childhood Mathematics Education

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Recognizing and using patterns and structures play a pivotal role in learning mathematics. Recent research shows that children’s pattern and structure competencies are strongly linked to their general mathematical development. Furthermore, it is possible to foster pattern and structure competencies in young children. The study presented in this paper ties together these two main findings and asks if fostering pattern and structure competencies may even lead to advanced arithmetic achievement. Preliminary findings from an intervention study with 51 first grade students show an increase in the children’s arithmetic skills after five months of explicitly teaching pattern and structure during regular mathematics lessons.

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  1. Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    Miriam M. Lüken

  2. Fröbelschule, Fröbelstraße 7, 33604, Bielefeld, Germany

    Ralf Kampmann

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  1. Department of Education, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Iliada Elia

  2. Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Joanne Mulligan

  3. Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Ann Anderson

  4. Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Anna Baccaglini-Frank

  5. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Education Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Christiane Benz

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Lüken, M.M., Kampmann, R. (2018). The Influence of Fostering Children’s Patterning Abilities on Their Arithmetic Skills in Grade 1. In: Elia, I., Mulligan, J., Anderson, A., Baccaglini-Frank, A., Benz, C. (eds) Contemporary Research and Perspectives on Early Childhood Mathematics Education. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73432-3_4

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