Children’s Numerical Thinking in the Early School Grades and How to Foster and Understand Its Development

Abstract

Inequitable conditions for learning emerged in classrooms for children deemed by their teachers as low achievers. A project to address low arithmetic performance in public primary schools located at a marginalized area of Mexico City was created. This program is part of the educational component of the study program of future psychologists linked with services for the community - students face real-life situations that must be analyzed and solved with the advice of their university teachers. The problem of interest, described in this chapter, is low mathematics performance in the first three grades of primary school. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011.