Mathematics competence level: The contribution of non-symbolic and spatial magnitude comparison skills

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Magnitude comparison skills have been related to mathematics competence, although results in this area vary. The current study aimed to describe the performance of 75 children (aged 4-5 years) in two comparison tasks; and examine the strength of the relationship between each of the two tasks and mathematics competence level (MCL). Participants were assessed with the Early Numeracy Test which provides a global MCL score. Magnitude comparison skills were assessed with two tasks: a non-symbolic number comparison task and a spatial comparison task. Results of the Pearson correlation analysis showed a relationship between the two tasks with better performance in the spatial comparison task. Regression analysis with the stepwise method showed that only the non-symbolic number comparison task had a significant value in the prediction of the MCL pointing to the need to take these kinds of tasks into account in the first years of school.

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Cueli, M., Areces, D., McCaskey, U., álvarez-García, D., & González-Castro, P. (2019). Mathematics competence level: The contribution of non-symbolic and spatial magnitude comparison skills. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(MAR). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00465

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